Lookin' for pleasant weather? I've found it!! :)

[Anonymous]

Yep folks I've been to the OBX again and have been bitten real bad by the Outer Banks bug, even worse than last year!! LOL!

I have been posting OBX sites at my messageboard tonight, and I found a really interesting read on the history of the Outer Banks.

Just thought I'd share it with you!


Check this out!

http://www.insiders.com/outerbanks/main-history.htm


That does it!! I want to MOVE to Nags Head now!! Yeah!!

BTW, Anyone on this board from the Outer Banks?

[KayFL]

I have been in love with the outer banks for many years - life just seems to be against me moving there - maybe someday. There isn't a place as perfect.
KayFL

[Anonymous]

I have been in love with the outer banks for many years - life just seems to be against me moving there - maybe someday. There isn't a place as perfect.
KayFL

I'm glad to hear that others are as interested in the Outer Banks as I am!

Never, ever give up on your dreams KayFL. Keep working at it, I am sure you'll find a way to go there someday. Besides, when you get there, you'll be in heaven.

My dream is, to live there in the Summer and early fall, then migrate to a place like northern Labrador for the winter. I'd have two homes, a winter home full of snow, and then go south to my beloved OBX in the late spring!!

[JenyEliza]

Spent my summers as a child at Kitty Hawk. My parents loved the area so much they built a second home there so we had a place to get away. Too bad they didn't hang on to it...it would be worth a fortune if they owned it now.

BTW...my first memory of Hurricane related weather is of standing with my Dad--holding my hand--on the main drag in Kitty Hawk with a big storm out at sea. The town was completely empty--except us and a few other die-hard OBXers. Don't recall what storm it was (too young to really care at the time).

I do remember watching these big, huge balls of foam being blown down the road, how strong the wind was and that the waves seemed to be as big as tall tall buildings (although, at around 8-10 years old, their immense size was probably in direct proportion to my small size).

One of these days I'm going to have to ask my dad if he remembers which storm this was.

Sadly, I haven't been back to the OBX since I was a kid. I hear I wouldn't recognize it if I did. So....maybe better to just leave those memories as they are and stay away.

Kitty Hawk was an awesome place 30 years ago. My brother and I buiit a hang-glider one summer, and flew it off sand dunes near the Wright Brother's memorial. WHAT A BLAST!!! Of course, you couldn't do that now....the National Parks security folks would arrest you on the spot for something like this now.

Glad you had a good trip to my old home away from home!

Jeny

[JenyEliza]

Oh, and the movie "Message in a Bottle" starring Kevin Costner and Robin Wright Penn (Sean Penn's wife), was filmed in the OBX area. Might want to catch that flick if you want to see some BEAUTIFUL OBX scenery.

Jeny

[Anonymous]

Spent my summers as a child at Kitty Hawk. My parents loved the area so much they built a second home there so we had a place to get away. Too bad they didn't hang on to it...it would be worth a fortune if they owned it now.

BTW...my first memory of Hurricane related weather is of standing with my Dad--holding my hand--on the main drag in Kitty Hawk with a big storm out at sea. The town was completely empty--except us and a few other die-hard OBXers. Don't recall what storm it was (too young to really care at the time).

I do remember watching these big, huge balls of foam being blown down the road, how strong the wind was and that the waves seemed to be as big as tall tall buildings (although, at around 8-10 years old, their immense size was probably in direct proportion to my small size).

One of these days I'm going to have to ask my dad if he remembers which storm this was.

Sadly, I haven't been back to the OBX since I was a kid. I hear I wouldn't recognize it if I did. So....maybe better to just leave those memories as they are and stay away.

Kitty Hawk was an awesome place 30 years ago. My brother and I buiit a hang-glider one summer, and flew it off sand dunes near the Wright Brother's memorial. WHAT A BLAST!!! Of course, you couldn't do that now....the National Parks security folks would arrest you on the spot for something like this now.

Glad you had a good trip to my old home away from home!

Jeny

Yep I had a really excellent trip to Nags Head! Monday morning when we left, the wind had come up, blowing from the NNE at 18 to 25mph with gusts over 30mph. It was chilly, at 61 degrees with 48-degree dewpoints, and the tides were about a foot above what we had become accustomed to in the preceding three to four days. The waves were wild, there was sea foam blowing south, along with sand right at the foot of the dunes. I did not want to leave, I was blasting music in my headphones and I was totally in love with the beach weather so much!! There was hardly any room to walk on that beach, the waves were running right up into the foot of the dunes. Some of the waves were hitting the recently rebuilt wooden beach accessways! But I had to enjoy one last jebwalk along my beloved OBX! My shoes got soaked with ocean water and sea foam. I was ecstatic! My travel bag was so heavy with shells that I nearly pulled my lower back trying to hoist it into the back of the pickup when we left. I was really, really reluctant to leave Nags Head. My friends had to gently lead me away from the beach where I had enjoyed the sea and salt air and seagulls and being with my good friends. I kept saying, 'Just five more minutes, just five more minutes.' Man those waves were wild as heck, the NNE wind blew at over 30mph in gusts and the sea foam blew right by me!

My friends and I had constructed a sand castle about 21 feet across and about 14 feet wide, with 2-foot packed sand walls and triple-level overpasses made of sand and lined with those beautiful Outer Banks shells. It held off the high tides for two days. We exulted in our perceived engineering skills, but the OBX surprised us with the windy weather on Monday morning when we left.

Our sand castle was not only breached, it was leveled. Waves covered the area it had stood. We could hardly believe our eyes. The whole beach was getting washed by these waves at high tide due to the winds. There was ocean water and waves where the sand castle had been.

The Outer Banks are such an intriguing place!! I did not want to leave. Even now, about 30 hours after coming back, I have to fight an overpowering urge to just slip into the car and drive to the OBX. I could be there in five hours.

I can still remember the sweet smell of that salt air......

[Anonymous]

Oh, and the movie "Message in a Bottle" starring Kevin Costner and Robin Wright Penn (Sean Penn's wife), was filmed in the OBX area. Might want to catch that flick if you want to see some BEAUTIFUL OBX scenery.

Jeny

Thank you very much, Jeny. I will. Anything about the Outer Banks, I want to see it. It's my dream summer place to be.