As Hurricane Earl continues to strengthen in the western Atlantic, it will produce increasing long period swell along the North Carolina coast, despite remaining well offshore, per an update from the National Weather Service (NWS) Newport/Morehead City Office. As a result, an extended period of life-threatening rip currents is expected for all Eastern N.C. beaches […]
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SpaceX successfully launched its first batch of Starlink satellites for September 2022 from Cape Canaveral on Sunday evening, September 4, and the meteor-like sight was visible from multiple vantage points along Hatteras Island. The mission was considered a milestone, as it marked the 40th mission of the year for the aerospace company, and set a new record for […]
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Visitors and residents on Ocracoke Island are invited to join rangers at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore for a public sea turtle nest excavation on Labor Day, September 5. The excavation will begin promptly at 9:00 a.m., and visitors can park at the Pony Pen Beach Access lot. The nest i located just 0.03 miles south of […]
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With a total of 373 turtle nests recorded along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) as of the end of August, 2022 is a banner year for the sea turtle nesting season, with the second-highest number of nests reported since data collection began. Sea turtle nests laid by loggerheads, green turtles, and leatherbacks have been […]
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National Parks of Eastern N.C. Superintendent David Hallac provided updates on the problematic and endangered oceanfront homes in Rodanthe at a well-attended public meeting at the Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo Community Building on Wednesday night, August 24. In the past two years, four homes along a severely eroded stretch of shoreline in Rodanthe have collapsed into the ocean, […]
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Visitors and residents on Hatteras Island are invited to join rangers at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore for a public sea turtle nest excavation tomorrow, August 26, at 10 a.m. in Buxton, per an update from the nonprofit organization, Outer Banks Forever. The details of the event are listed below: Parking location: Buxton Lifeguard Beach parking lot. Nest […]
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A new and improved exhibit on the tribes of the Outer Banks at the Frisco Native American Museum & Natural History Center (FNAM) is nearing completion, and is expected to open to the public soon, per an August 24 update from FNAM. “We can’t wait for you to come and experience this amazing exhibit,” stated FNAM in […]
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A new ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control) store is on the horizon for Buxton, to replace the current store located in the Osprey Shopping Center. The original store, which opened in 1987 and was the first ABC store on Hatteras Island, has simply become too small for the island community, which has boomed over the past […]
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As the seasonal shorebird nesting season winds down, more and more beaches within the Cape Hatteras National Seashore have started to reopen to both off-road vehicles (ORVs) and pedestrians, including Cape Point in Buxton, which reopened to ORVs on Wednesday, August 17. Another popular beach on the southern end of the National Seashore, South Point […]
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Outer Banks Forever, the local nonprofit partner of the Outer Banks’ national parks, recently announced that there is still time to join their annual “Adopt a Sea Turtle Nest” program for the 2022 sea turtle nesting season, which occurs each year between May and October. Biological technicians at Cape Hatteras National Seashore are currently monitoring 350 […]
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