OB BACK COUNTRY SAFARI TOURS | 4X4, KAYAK AND SEGWAY TOURS in Corolla, NC
OB BACK COUNTRY SAFARI TOURS - 4X4, KAYAK AND SEGWAY TOURS
Discover wild Spanish Mustangs and our unique Barrier Island ecology on the Wild Horse Safari. Explore over 30 miles of off road beach, dune and sand trail and ride with a professional naturalist guide in a custom 4x4 open-air Safari Cruiser or experience the 4x4 and Kayak Safari combination tour to paddlers in the placid waterways of the wildlife rich Currituck Sound. Beginner and intermediate paddlers available. The Outer Banks Leader in Eco-Adventures!
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Outer Banks Wild Horses roaming wild and free on the beaches of Corolla, NC
Want to see wild ponies and discover some of the most unique sights the Outer Banks has to offer. With new, exclusive access to the Wild Horse Sanctuary, Wild Horse Adventure Tours will take you through three distinct ecosystems in search of local wildlife and the Outer Banks Wild Spanish Mustangs.
Feel the ocean breeze and taste the salty beach air as you cruise through the Carova outback in an OPEN AIR Hummer. With more terrain, no two tours are ever the same; so, if you like history, ecology, adventure, and quick-witted comedy, we have you covered!
WILD HORSE BEACH SAFARI - Corolla North Carolina!
WILD HORSE BEACH SAFARI! Drive on a four wheel drive beach with the Corolla Wild Horse Fund. A herd of 110+ wild horses have lived here for more than 500 years. This place is remote! No roads go where we go...on the northern beaches of the Outer Banks, North Carolina.
We drive up on a four wheel drive beach with the tour group the Wild Horse Fund, located in Corolla, North Carolina.
Our thanks to the Wild Horse Fund. You guys do a great job with the tours and in managing the wild horse herd!
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Outer Banks Wild Horse Tours - Humvee Adventure Tours
See the wild horses of the Outer Banks and whip through beach, dune, and forest trails.
Tour with us to find the Outer Banks Wild Spanish Mustang Horses and discover some of the most unique sights OBX has to offer. Our friendly and knowledgeable tour guides take you onto pristine northern beaches that are accessible only with a 4x4 off-road vehicle.
We guarantee to find you the wild ponies of Corolla or YOUR MONEY BACK
Wild Horse Adventure Tours (W.H.A.T.) has been voted the #1 tour company in the state of NC and #1 thing to do in the Outer Banks by TripAdvisor.
Book online at WildHorseTour.com or call us on 252.489.2020
Off Road Segway - Carova NC
Mustang Trail Off-road Segway Tour with Back Country Safari Tours of Corolla NC. 11/23/15
Beginner Hang Gliding at Jockey's Ridge Outer Banks NC
Video of a beginner hang gliding class at Jockey's Ridge, NC. This video shows what to expect on your first hang gliding flights. The instructers are good and the hang gliding is safe and lots of fun for young kids to older adults.
Beginner hang gliding lessons start with an hour long classroom instruction followed by two hours of hang gliding on the dunes. Each person gets five flights spaced over a pleasant two hour timeframe. The instructors ensure that the gliders do not get away from the student (and they carry the glider back up the dune).
The dunes are also a lot of fun to play on. See my other video Family Dune Jumping at Jockey's Ridge Outer Banks NC.
Wild Horses Of The Outer Banks, North Carolina
Montage of the footage I took of the Wild Spanish Horses that reside on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
Beaufort North Carolina Wild Horses on Rachel Carson Reserve & Estuarine Sanctuary
Rachel Carson North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve
A herd of about 40 banker horses lives on the Rachel Carson component of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve, a series of five small islands and several salt marshes. There were no horses at the Sanctuary until the 1940s. It is unclear whether the Bankers swam over from nearby Shackleford or if they were left by residents who had used the islands to graze livestock. They are owned and managed by the State of North Carolina and regarded as a cultural resource.
No management action was taken until the late 1980s and early 1990s, when after years of flourishing population, the island's carrying capacity was exceeded. Malnourishment caused by overcrowding resulted in the deaths of several horses; the reserve's staff instituted a birth control program to regulate the herd.
Wild horses on the beach Carova NC Outer Banks
See the wild horses on the beach in Carova NC in the northern Outer Banks. You have to drive on the beach so you need a 4x4 vehicle or take a tour. They aren't always on the beach so it's kinda like a treasure hunt to find them. In the neighborhood there is a county park with public washrooms because you can spend some hours on this awesome adventure.
Wild Horses! A Day Trip to Corolla 4X4 Beach in North Carolina
We spent day in North Carolina hanging out on the beach and looking at the wild horses
Corolla Jeep Adventure
Wild Horses of Corolla.
Wild Horses in NC Outer Banks 2
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Jockeys Ridge dunes in Nags Head Nc
Jockeys Ridge sand dunes
Outer Banks Corolla Wild Horses - How Did They Get Here?
With Karen McCalpin, Executive Director of the Corolla Wild Horse Fund
A lot of the questions that visitors come down and ask are about the wild horses, which is one of the area's top attractions. And they ask, 'How did they originally get here?'.
There are three schools of thought about their arrival, the most documented one is being put ashore in 1528 down in what is now Cape Lookout National Seashore. It was Cape Fear then. Ships have run aground on sandbars, they had to lighten the load so the heavy things went overboard, and one of the most heavy things on the ship were horses, and they were also the most expendable. So the horses went overboard and were able to swim ashore in the shallow water, and National Geographic documented 5,000 wild horses on the Outer Banks by 1926.
Another thing is, I know up north (in Virginia) they're ponies and they're horses here, Assateague and Chincoteague. What's the difference and how do they relate to each other at all?
Well at one point in time, all of the horses on the East Coast were Spanish horses. But depending on who settled the area, for example Virginia was settled by primarily the English, so when they came they brought Shetland ponies and Welsh ponies and Connemara ponies and crossed them with the Spanish horses that they found. And then over the centuries, because it's a farming community, they brought in a lot of other domestic breeds, so now you have whatever exists as the cute Chincoteague pony, but it's a pony. Our horses (in Corolla) are genetically horses. They're small horses, and might be pony sized, some of them, but they are horses. And because of their isolation here on the Outer Banks, they've been DNA tested twice and remain pure.
And you also do horse tours here as well, through the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, correct?
We do. Our emphasis is a little different, it's on education and we take only small groups. Our purpose is to connect people with our mission and let them know why it's so important to protect and preserve this national treasure. Because it doesn't matter what state you're from, these are nobody's horses but they're everybody's horses.
Wild horses in North Carolina
See the Outer Banks Wild Horses with Wild Horse Adventure Tours
Wild Horse Sanctuary Trail Camera - OBX
Corolla - Outer Banks, NC
WATCH IN 1080P. Corolla is the northernmost Outer Banks community before the sandy four wheel drive area begins. Eleven miles of pristine beaches stretch from Corolla north to Virginia and is only accessible by four wheel drive vehicles.
Sparsely populated, with an array of year-round and vacation rental homes, this area may be most famous for its other residents, the Spanish Mustangs that reside on over 7,500 acres of land.
Reaching 165 feet in the air, the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, is known for its unpainted brick red exterior, which showcases more than one million bricks used in construction. This was the last major brick lighthouse built on the Outer Banks and summer visitors can climb 214 winding steps to see amazing ocean to sound vistas.
Named by USA Today, as one of best undiscovered beaches on the East Coast, Corolla's coastline is known for wide, clean and un-crowded beaches. For more information, visit
Jockey's Ridge State Park, Outer Banks
On top of this huge sand dune, the largest on the east coast of the U.S., you can get some perspective of how narrow the Outer Banks is. In the beginning you can see a little boy running down the dune, then kite surfers in the Roanoke Sound, a hang glider, and the beach nourishment ship in the ocean. The world's largest hang gliding school, Kitty Hawk Kites, gives lessons here.
Waterside Villages • Gated Waterfront Community • Currituck • Outer Banks
Waterside Living on the Outer Banks
Waterside Villages is the perfect community for growing families and retirees looking for a small town waterfront lifestyle in a secure, gated community. Waterside is just minutes from the world class beaches, restaurants and shopping on the Outer Banks. It also includes all the conveniences of Elizabeth City and Hampton Roads Virginia. There are fabulous amenities already in place; a pool, tennis courts, club house with exercise equipment, grill room, sound side walking trails and gazebo with more on the way.
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