Oyster reef restoration, new green jobs, and a blue sky were all part of an Earth Day get-together on Spurgeon Stowe’s headboat, the Miss Hatteras, on Monday, April 19. More than 40 people gathered at Oden’s Dock in Hatteras village and prepared to climb aboard the boat and head out into Pamlico Sound. Their destination […]
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last month their intent to seek a change in status for the loggerhead sea turtles that are found in the waters off North Carolina and nest on coastal beaches. The services proposed to change the turtle’s status from threatened […]
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When Rachel Carson published her environmental classic, “Silent Spring,” in 1962, she was referring to the silence of songbirds, quoting a line from a John Keats’ poem that reads, “The sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing.” The silence Ocracokers have been noticing recently is not that of songbirds, but of the […]
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Ocracoke needs help with cat population explosion …..WITH SLIDE SHOW By PAT GARBER By PAT GARBER By PAT GARBER Ocracoke needs good homes, veterinary assistance, and donations to alleviate the current cat crisis. Anyone who has visited Ocracoke village knows that cats make up a significant part of the population here — and rightly so. […]
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In the winter of 1985, 15-year-old Margarita Gonzalez left her impoverished home in central Mexico and, with her sister and a group of strangers, set out for the forbidden land of plenty to the north. Now, 25 years later, she lives and works on Ocracoke Island. She is an American citizen, with her own home […]
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Sitting and picking around the wood stove at the Community Store is what’s happening on the music scene at Ocracoke Island this winter. Young and old, professional and amateur, musicians who want to share their songs come together for two hours on Friday evenings, bringing with them their guitars, mandolins, drums, or whatever instruments they […]
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A white metal monster rolls across the broad expanse of Cape Point, following a sandy road along southern Hatteras Island. Its giant wheels sink into the wet sand as it approaches the ocean, but it does not slow down. It heads straight into the surf, wheels churning the water, and soon it is in deep […]
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Gathering the oddly shaped shellfish Crassostrea virginica, better known as the common oyster, has long been an important part of Ocracoke Island’s fishing tradition, and freshly gathered oysters one of her finest culinary delights. Ocracoke fisherman and shellfish researcher Gene Ballance explains that for his grandfather, Elisha Ballance Sr., oystering was the main source of […]
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By PAT GARBER By PAT GARBER “There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” That is what Water Rat told Mole in Kenneth Grahame’s classic childhood story, “The Wind in the Willows,” published in the late 1800s. More than 100 years later, on Dec. 29, […]
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