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Welcome to our web site and to a personal view of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The site will cover a wide ranging amount of subjects due, in part, to the Outer Banks being the location of so many historical events as well as being an area where you can get involved is many activities.

It is also the place we call home for the past 14 years after relocating from Southern New England. Many things have changed here during that time and it is a much different place. Population growth of permanent residents has more than doubled, real estate prices have skyrocketed as have taxes. All in all, it's still a very pleasant place to live with a much slower pace than anywhere in the urbanized northeast. The people are friendly, the crime rate is low and it only snows about once every 10 years.

The Wright Brothers called this place home every winter for a number of years while they were developing and inventing manned, powered flight. This was the area that Sir Walter Raleigh thought would be a good place to establish a permanent colony for England and had it funded back in 1587. Although it was a failure, due to the original settlement's residents just vanishing, it set the stage for the establishment of Jamestown, in Virginia, in 1608.

Other than Florida, the Outer Banks have been visited by more hurricanes and tropical storms than anywhere else in the U.S. At least, as far back as records have been kept. The other storms called Nor 'easters, in the winter, seem to cause more damage to property than the "Big Storms" due to the length of time they remain off the coast.

As time allows, we will be adding content to existing pages as well as introducing a wider variety of subjects but all of them will be directly connected to this place we call home.

So, feel free to click on the navigation links to the left and get a feel for the place and visit often as there will be plenty of updates in the coming weeks as this site has, and is, undergoing a complete overhaul with a new design and a new program. Some things may not work as intended, if you see any broken links or any thing that doesn't look right, please feel free to contact the webmaster and we'll get to working on a solution.