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WHAT IS IT?
56 miles of uninhabited North Carolina barrier island seashore reachable only via privately run ferries. You need to track down those boaters on your own with information available in and around the towns of Ocracoke, Harker’s Island and Atlantic.We cannot lie. We visited the Harker’s Island Visitor Center and stayed on the mainland. Any ratings would be purely speculative. The video made the Seashore look very pretty and very remote. Ponies roam the beach, mosquitoes swarm and the traveler is on their own.
The introductory video at the Visitors Center had footage of boaters, anglers, off-roaders in big trucks and people in RVs camping out on the beach. We asked the Rangers what kind of people went out to the Seashore – Locals? Vacationers? Day trippers? Hard-core campers? “Everyone,” was their reply. We could not decide if being stranded on the island with such seemingly hearty lot would be really fun or really not fun.
The number of Rangers equaled the number of visitors in the VC at any given time. Said Rangers also stated that more Rangers staff the Island. The mainland VC’s telescope was not strong enough to confirm their existence.
Should you go? If our first paragraph failed to spark you interest, the answer is probably no. We were not in the mood and we think you MUST be in the mood to travel to Cape Lookout.
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