2020 is already shaping up to be a steamy year, thanks to 12 brave volunteers of the Chicamacomico Banks Fire & Rescue team who are showing off the goods in an upcoming calendar that will be available for sale in the near future. The brand new fundraising project, which was orchestrated by lifelong volunteer and [...] Island Features |  Full Article

The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras village is hosting a wave of events in August, which includes a range of free programs for kids and adults alike. Upcoming events for the month of August include the following. Maritime Crafts for Kids Enjoy creating crafts with a coastal twist during this free program offered [...] Island Features |  Full Article

The Perseids meteor shower will become active during the second half of July. Although it peaks on August 13, the best viewing will probably be early in the month, because there’s a full moon on August 15. That means it will be very bright on the peak of the Perseids and you won’t be able [...] Island Features |  Full Article

On Thursday, July 25, members of the U.S. Coast Guard Station Hatteras Inlet welcomed a small team of potential new recruits when the children of Kyle’s Munchkin Academy in Buxton paid a visit to the Hatteras station. This is the second year in the row that children from the local daycare center were able to [...] Island Features |  Full Article

An infamous pirate has once again staked claim to land along the Outer Banks. The North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort has installed its traveling exhibit on Blackbeard and his flagship Queen Anne’s Revenge at its sister site in Hatteras, the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum. The display, which includes a collection of artifacts recovered [...] Island Features |  Full Article

Growing up in North Carolina, my family often spent summer vacations on one of our state’s beautiful sandy beaches, our favorite being the tiny island of Sunset Beach.  On most of the small-town Carolina beaches, time stops.  Things that mattered before your vacation don’t anymore, and you instantly find yourself at peace surrounded by the [...] Island Features |  Full Article

A local Outer Banks filmmaking team is seeking help from the community with filming locations, props, actors and various other resources for their 48 Hour Film Challenge shoot which will take place on Saturday, August 3. The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which each team has to write, shoot [...] Island Features |  Full Article

Throughout the centuries, people have collected treasures off the coastal shores that the ocean leaves behind with the ever-changing tides. Storm surge and shoaling are some of the ways these treasures have found their way from the vast depths of the sea to our sandy shorelines. The earliest Native American inhabitants of Hatteras Island also [...] Island Features |  Full Article

(This article is republished from an August, 1999, special section of The Island Breeze on the move of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.) The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse began its historic and controversial move out of harm’s way on June 17 at 3:05 p.m. in a steady downpour of rain. The journey ended 23 days later on [...] Island Features |  Full Article