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09/29/2026

09/29/2026

☮️❤️HI

09/29/2026

NCDOT NC 12 expects to open a temporary one-lane roadway at Pea Island on Wednesday morning, September 30, allowing traffic to leave Hatteras Island and travel north. The temporary roadway will initially be open to northbound traffic only. There is no timeline for when southbound access to Hatteras Island will resume, and entry remains restricted.

Until the roadway opens, emergency ferry service between Rodanthe and Stumpy Point remains the primary direct connection to the mainland. Three ferries are operating, with capacity of approximately 250 vehicles over 24 hours. Due to limited capacity, long waits and significant delays continue. Travelers should be prepared with food, water, medications and other essentials while waiting.

Dare County understands how difficult and frustrating these extended waits have been and appreciates the patience of those affected.

Visitor and non-resident property owner access to Hatteras Island remains restricted. There is no timeline for when visitor access will resume. Priority One and Priority Two individuals with proper credentials may enter under the county's staged reentry process. Entry into the emergency area by residents of Ocracoke Island is authorized.

Reservations are required for Ocracoke-to-mainland ferry service via Swan Quarter or Cedar Island. Call 1-800-BY-FERRY to make a reservation.

For current information on roadway access, emergency ferry service, reentry and other storm-related updates, visit DareNC.gov/Storm.

09/29/2026

🚀 SPOT THE SPACE STATION TUESDAY! 🛰️✨

Set your alarms for 7:17 PM Tuesday
The International Space Station is doing a flyover right above us.

Here are the pass details:

⏰ 7:17 PM
🧭 Rising in the NW and heading toward the East.
👀 Challenge Factor: Sunset is only 30 minutes before the pass, so the sky will still have some twilight glow. It won't shine quite as brightly as usual, making this one a fun challenge for eagle-eyed skywatchers.

Look for a steady, fast-moving point of light gliding silently across the sky (no flashing lights like an airplane).

Grab the family, step outside, and see who spots it first, Good Luck!

09/29/2026

I would like to go on a walkabout and find kindred spirit ☮️❤️

Sometime around 1975, on a barrier island near Sunset Beach that most people only ever reach on foot, Frank Nesmith and his girlfriend Claudia Sailor set up a weathered mailbox on a driftwood post, mostly on a lark. Frank found her struggling to steady it in the sand and handed her a piece of driftwood to prop it up. That small, ordinary gesture was how the two of them met.

The mailbox they planted that day became something neither of them could have predicted. Reached only by a mile and a half walk across Bird Island, it filled slowly with letters from strangers, people leaving behind their secrets, their grief, their joy, and their hopes, addressed to no one and everyone at once. Decades of those notebooks have since been collected and archived in the special collections at UNC-Wilmington's Randall Library, a quiet public record of exactly what people needed to say out loud but had nowhere else to put. 📬

Frank Nesmith is now 88 and can no longer maintain the mailbox himself, so a local author and a handful of others have taken over keeping the tradition going. The original piece of driftwood he handed Claudia that day is still there, even though the mailbox itself has been replaced more than once over the decades. What started as two people meeting on a beach has become one of the coast's quietest, most personal landmarks.

What would you write if you knew a stranger, and only a stranger, would ever read it?

09/29/2026

Alright y’all, NOON UPDATE.
We are closing momentarily.
We will be closed for a few hours reopening at some point this afternoon…. Daphne needs a nap.

When we return there are:
Some
HAM CHEESE
TURKEY CHEESE
PB&J
SANDWICHES

No one has bread, so everything’s on deli bread.

The PB&J’s are child size with a side of grapes.

There will also be hot ham and cheese croissants.
And whatever else I can throw together.

I have not heard back from Dare County about a possible temporary bathroom facility being placed in the parking lot, I also put a call into the park service to see if they could help.

In the meantime, the thrift store located across from the KHK complex has opened and is allowing people to use their restroom.
THANK YOU SABRINA!
There is also one located at the beach access just north of North Beach campground.

I will post when we reopen.
Four-Ish, maybe?

EDITED TO ADD:

The Lisa’s Pizzeria Crew gave up their Monday off, and are OPEN NOW, they have pizza, subs, and restrooms!!

If you need to clean out your car, there is a dumpster on the north side of our building that you are welcome to use.

See you in a little bit!

09/29/2026

After a storm left a couple stranded on an island in the Outer Banks days before their wedding, they invited locals to join them on their special day — and hundreds showed up to celebrate. Click the link in the first comment for the full story ⬇️