For those who don’t know about the Outer Banks, it is a sliver of land off South Eastern Virginia and the east coast of North Carolina. And by sliver, we mean a narrow 200 miles of barrier islands connected by bridges and ferries. The hundreds of shipwrecks along the Outer Banks have given the surrounding seas the nickname “The Graveyard of the Atlantic”.
The Wright Brothers took their first flight on Dec 17, 1903 at Kill Devil Hills. The memorial to Orville and Wilbur is located in Kill Devil, not far from Kitty Hawk, where we arrived to the Outer Banks over the Wright Memorial Bridge.
We are staying in Hatteras at the Hatteras Sands RV Park. We will say, this place is crowded……….with Canada Geese. We are the ONLY ones here! We have to say, this was a little unnerving. When we arrived to NO ONE around, we were a little shocked to say the least. Barb had a phone number (thank God) of the owner she booked with and gave her a call. Well, the lady was quite nice and exclaimed while they were CLOSED for the season, they were allowing us to stay and to just “pick any site we wanted”. So, we did. Our first night was so windy we had a hard time sleeping, thinking we were going to get pushed over into the canal. But, we survived. The next night we decided to venture out and go for dinner. So off we went in the pitch dark! In flip flops and dresses, walking through large pools of water behind the RV park, with God knows what under the surface. Are we out of our minds?? Anyway, we made it through the lakes of water onto a main street and found the restaurant. It was fabulous! It was packed with locals of course, as we are thinking we must be the only visitors in Hatteras, and there was live music. We had a marvellous time and were not bothered by the dark, or the major puddles of water walking back to our RV for the night.
