Top 12. Best Tourist Attractions in Ocracoke, North Carolina
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The most beautiful places and sight in Ocracoke.
Top 12. Best Tourist Attractions in Ocracoke, North Carolina: Ocracoke Lighthouse, Ocracoke Lifeguarded Beach, British Cemetery, Springer's Point Preserve, Ocracoke Preservation Museum, Ocracoke Island Visitor Center, Ocracoke Pony Pens, Teach's Hole Blackbeard Exhibit, Portsmouth Village, Outer Banks National Scenic Byway, Hammock Hills Nature Trails, Anchorage Marina
Ocracoke Island NC Attractions
Visiting the British cemetery on Ocracoke, the Ocracoke Wild Pony Pens and the Ocracoke Lighthouse
Hazelnut, The newest addition to the Ocracoke ponies
Ocracoke pony pen 2-7-15.Newest addition to the herd ,Hazelnut
NC 2015: riding on Ocracoke
Ocracoke - More Shells
Even more shells from Ocracoke (June 30, 2014)
FIRST VIDEO: of Hurricane Arthur
Hurricane Arthur has arrived on Oak Island, NC, submitted by viewer Chris Watkins.
Ocracoke Island soon will be inaccessible as state officials plan to shut down ferry service to prepare for Hurricane Arthur.
Officials with the North Carolina Ferry Division said in a news release the ferry runs between Hatteras and Ocracoke islands will end at 5 p.m. Thursday. Ferry Division Director Ed Goodwin says crews need to secure the boats and put them in a safe location.
The ferry runs between Ocracoke and Swan Quarter and Ocracoke and Cedar Island will end at 4 p.m. Thursday. Those routes take people to the mainland from Ocracoke, which is accessible only by ferry.
The National Hurricane Center forecast says Arthur should reach Category 2 strength with winds of at least 96 mph before its landfall or closest approach to the coast early Friday.
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Hurricane Arthur Forms In The Atlantic
Arthur strengthened to a hurricane early Thursday and threatened to give North Carolina a glancing blow on Independence Day, prompting the governor to warn vacationers along the coast not to risk their safety by trying to salvage their picnics and barbecues. The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season prompted a hurricane warning for much of the North Carolina coast and a mandatory evacuation for visitors to the Outer Banks' Hatteras Island as of 5 a.m. Thursday. Residents also were advised to leave the island. A voluntary evacuation was announced for the Outer Banks' Ocracoke Island, accessible only by ferry.
Hurricane Irene makes landfall in NC
Hurricane Irene makes landfall Saturday morning five miles northeast of Cape Lookout, North Carolina.
Residents and visitors to North Carolina's Outer Banks prepare for Tropical Storm Arthur as it moves
As one of the year's busiest travel weekends approaches, so does another visitor: Tropical Storm Arthur, expected to grow into a hurricane by the Fourth of July and hit most harshly at North Carolina's Outer Banks, a popular getaway spot of thin barrier islands along the shore.
The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season prompted a hurricane warning for a wide swath of the North Carolina coast and spurred authorities to order a mandatory evacuation for visitors to the Outer Banks' Hatteras Island as of 5 a.m. Thursday.
Residents also were advised to leave the island.
A voluntary evacuation was announced for the Outer Banks' Ocracoke Island, accessible only by ferry.
The worst of the storm should occur at Cape Hatteras about dawn Friday, with 3 to 5 inches of rain and sustained winds up to 85 mph, said Tony Saavedra, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service. But forecasters said that by later Friday, the effects of Arthur would be past the Outer Banks, with the rest of the weekend salvaged.
The Hurricane Center predicted the storm would be off the coast of New England later in the day and eventually make landfall in Canada's maritime provinces as a tropical storm.
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Something Worth Having 17 Sep 2014
Something Worth Having
Performed by members of Molasses Creek on 17 Sep 2014 at Deepwater Theater on Ocracoke, North Carolina.
Tune starts at 1:23.
Members of Molasses Creek
Gary Mitchell
Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Gary began his performing career at 13 years old with his friend Jim Harper in the folk duet “Ham & Eggs” in Burlington, NC. In his first year at North Carolina State University, he met Gerald Hampton and Stan Brown and discovered bluegrass. After recording 2 albums with “The Wahoo Revue”, Gary went on to play with a number of rock bands (including The Aliens, The Boar Cats, Good Question, and the Ocracoke Rockers) and cabaret theater with his wife Kitty. In 1993 Gary, Kitty and David Tweedie started Molasses Creek and recorded their first album at Doug Rorrer’s studio in Eden, NC. In 1994 Gary began doing his own recording here on the island and has continued engineering and producing numerous albums for Molasses Creek and many other regional artists in his “Soundside Studio”. Gary was responsible for the creation of the “Ocrafolk” label, starting with the “Ocrafolk Music Sampler” series, the “Ocrafolk Opry” variety show, the “Ocrafolk Festival”, and most recently the “Ocrafolk School”.
Fiddler Dave Tweedie
Vocals, Fiddle, Cittern
Fiddler Dave grew up sawing away on the violin in orchestras in Oklahoma. After repeatedly having his tapping foot nailed down by conductors he set aside his fiddle for theatrical pursuits. Halfway through his college career in North Carolina, Dave discovered Appalachian Old-Time and Celtic fiddling. Soon after he became Fiddler Dave (fiddling for breakfast, lunch, and dinner). When Gary Mitchell invited him to Ocracoke Island for the summer of 1993, Molasses Creek was born!
Upon graduation from Davidson College in 1994, he received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel for a year studying changes in fiddling in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, Ireland, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. After many months of walking into villages with his fiddle on his back, hunting down like-minded tune collectors, Fiddler Dave returned to Ocracoke Island, where he married Amy Howard (a descendent of the quartermaster on Blackbeard’s ship!). To this day, he continues his pursuit of great music, food, quality island life, and wrangling his pirate son, Lachlan. He loves gardening, breadbaking, and woodworking with scraps of lumber that wash up on the beach. Marcy Brenner
Vocals, Mandolin, Banjolin, Guitar, Bass, Cittern, Percussion
Marcy Brenner started her musical career Alexandria, VA, playing flute and violin in the elementary school band. She received a pawn-shop guitar for her 10th birthday and was a classical guitarist until at 14 she joined her first basement rock band. While earning her business degrees at Radford University in the Blue Ridge Mountains she found folk music. She spent twenty years in California on the “other side of the desk” of the music business until returning home to her Southern roots – finding her husband Lou Castro and together, the vibrant artistic community on Ocracoke. Marcy is also a songwriter and breast cancer survivor advocate.
Lou Castro
Guitar, Dobro, Pedal Steel, Bass, Vocals
Lou Castro started his musical career as a child dragging his Mickey Mouse record player behind his bicycle by its power cable in Philadelphia, PA. He soon graduated to the broom, then the badminton racket and then the tennis racket. He took classical piano lessons from age nine until eleven when he picked up a REAL guitar. Louie graduated from Berklee College of Music and is married to band member Marcy Brenner.
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Southern Outer Banks of NC IMG 2237
The 'Southern' Outer Banks are so close to Morehead City, Beaufort, Atlantic Beach, Pine Knoll Shores and Emerald Isle, NC. They are exciting to explore, walk among wild mustangs and go for a weekend camping trip. Easy access by boat & public ferry services.
Hurricane Irene - God is pissed at Obama
A caller to the Rusty Humphries show jokes about the reason behind Hurricane Irene.
Hurricane Irene caused extraordinary disruption Friday as it zeroed in for a catastrophic run up the East Coast. At least 2.3 million were ordered to move to safety.
This is probably the largest number of people that have been threatened by a single hurricane in the United States, said Jay Baker, a geography professor at Florida State University.
The storm may affect more than 65 million people, or one in five Americans, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News.
Irene was expected to make landfall today near Morehead City, N.C., on the southern end of the Outer Banks. Authorities in points farther north begged people to get out of harm's way.
The hurricane lost some strength but still packed winds of almost 100 m.p.h., and officials feared it could wreak devastation.
Don't wait. Don't delay, said President Barack Obama, who cut short his vacation by a day and return to Washington. I cannot stress this highly enough: If you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now.
All indications point to this being a historic hurricane.
Hurricane warnings were issued from North Carolina to New York, and watches were posted farther north, on the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard off Massachusetts.
Evacuation orders covered 1 million people in New Jersey, 315,000 in Maryland, 300,000 in North Carolina and 100,000 in Delaware. In addition, New York City ordered more than 300,000 people who live in flood-prone areas to leave.
Evacuation doesn't mean all will leave
With Hurricane Irene looming, New York City ordered Friday that more than 300,000 people who live in flood-prone areas leave, including Battery Park City at the southern tip of Manhattan, Coney Island and the beachfront Rockaways. But it was not clear how many would go, how they would get out or where they would go. Most New Yorkers don't have a car.
On top of that, the city said it would shut down the subways and buses at noon today, only a few hours after the first rain is expected to fall. The transit system carries about 5 million people on an average weekday, fewer on weekends. It has been shut down several times before, including during a transit workers' strike in 2005 and after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but never for weather.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said there was little authorities could do to force people out.
We do not have the manpower to go door-to-door and drag people out of their homes, he said. Nobody's going to get fined. Nobody's going to go to jail. But if you don't follow this, people may die.
Shelters were opening Friday afternoon, and the city was placed under its first hurricane warning since 1985.
Transit systems in New Jersey and Philadelphia also announced plans to shut down, and Washington declared a state of emergency.
Hundreds of thousands of airline passengers were grounded for the weekend as flights were canceled. Late Friday, aviation officials said they would close the five main New York City-area airports to arriving domestic and international flights beginning at noon Saturday. Many departures also were canceled.
Body bags ordered
Thousands of people were already without power. In Charleston, S.C., several people had to be rescued after a tree fell on their car.
Defying the orders, hardy holdouts in North Carolina put plywood on windows, gathered last-minute supplies and tied down boats. More than half of the people who live on two remote islands, Hatteras and Ocracoke, had ignored orders to leave, and as time to change their minds ran short, officials ordered dozens of body bags. The last ferry from Ocracoke left at 4 p.m. Friday.
I anticipate we're going to have people floating on the streets, and I don't want to leave them lying there, said Richard Marlin, fire chief for one of the seven villages on Hatteras. The Coast Guard will either be pulling people off their roofs like in Katrina, or we'll be scraping them out of their yards.
National Hurricane Center meteorologist David Zelinsky said earlier Friday that he expected the storm to arrive as a Category 2 or 3 hurricane. Later in the day, other forecasts showed it would strike most of the coast as a Category 1. The scale runs from 1, barely stronger than a tropical storm, to a monstrous 5. Friday night, Irene was a Category 2.
Regardless of how fierce the storm is when it makes landfall, the coast of North Carolina was expected to get winds of more than 100 m.p.h. and waves perhaps as high as 11feet, Zelinsky said.
This is a really large hurricane, and it is dangerous, he said. Whether it is a Category 2 or 3 at landfall, the effects are still going to be strong. I would encourage people to take it seriously.
Outer Banks Beach Update - 11/17/10
It's another gorgeous day on the Outer Banks in Corolla, NC. The sun is shining, the temps are in the mid 60's, and there were tons of shells on the beach again! Oh...and no other people! Great day for an Outer Banks beach update.
Molly the Pony, hurricane survivor
When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, it affected more than just people and property; thousands of animals were touched by the storm as well. Molly the Pony was rescued after Hurricane Katrina by Kaye Harris, who rescued other animals after the storm. One of the dogs Kay rescued attacked Molly, and the attack resulted in Molly having to have a leg amputated. She was then fitted with a prosthetic leg, and she now visits children's hospitals as a symbol of hope.
Bodie Island Lighthouse and Marshes
See the lighthouse, wildlife ponds, creeks, marshes and woodlands located just north or Oregon Inlet in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.