Visit North Carolina and the N.C. Outdoor Recreation Industry Office on Thursday announced a new partnership with the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics to maintain outdoor experiences and manage natural assets for future generations. North Carolina becomes the first coastal state to partner with Leave No Trace, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the outdoors and inspiring people to [...] Island Features |  Full Article

  Coastal Review Online is featuring the research, findings and commentary of author Kevin Duffus. Last of three parts Like a solar eclipse, a dark shadow crept over the towns of the Pamlico a few weeks after they had been visited by Sir Richard Grenville’s 1585 expedition. Expedition scientist, ethnographer and Algonquian translator Thomas Harriot [...] Island Features |  Full Article

These July days have been scorching, and it doesn’t cool down much in the evenings. Hot dinners are not appealing, and I sometimes feel too drained to spend much time over the stove, so a make-ahead, cool supper really hits the spot! With friends’ gardens in production mode, (as opposed to mine – more on [...] Island Features |  Full Article

Coastal Review Online is featuring the research, findings and commentary of author Kevin Duffus. Second of three parts It happened about 10 weeks before the second of Walter Raleigh’s three expeditions to establish an English colony on the North American continent arrived at Ocracoke Inlet in 1585. The expedition of seven ships was led by [...] Island Features |  Full Article

Coastal Review Online is featuring the research, findings and commentary of author Kevin Duffus. First of three parts Pamlico Sound is traversed each day by innumerable people aboard ferries, fishing boats and sailboats. Most, however, probably don’t consider or are even aware of the intrepid explorers who first circumnavigated the vast estuary for the purposes [...] Island Features |  Full Article

With the busy summer in full-swing, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission reminds beach-goers to keep beaches clean and shield lights at night for nesting sea turtles. From May until September, female sea turtles come ashore and lay their eggs on more than 300 miles of beach habitat in North Carolina, much of which is also [...] Island Features |  Full Article

Ocracoke Island’s public library has moved to the Deepwater Theater for the summer months, thanks to a partnership between BHM Regional Library, Ocracoke Friends of the Library, and Ocracoke Alive. The Ocracoke Library at 225 Back Road was among hundreds of structures that flooded during Hurricane Dorian last September. The library building is a shared [...] Island Features |  Full Article

When tuna fishing is this good, and the evening weather is this fine, what else to do but to enjoy dinner on the deck, enjoying the beauty of the marsh and the songs of “our” purple martins? Our grill is ever-ready on the deck, and the hail-pocked table and chairs have been refinished. It is [...] Island Features |  Full Article

This is Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. It’s the fifth planet from the Sun and about 484 million miles from it. Its diameter is close to 88,000 miles. That makes it about 11 times wider than the Earth. Jupiter is almost entirely composed of hydrogen and helium. The surface temperature of Jupiter [...] Island Features |  Full Article