![]() ![]() Navigation Aids: USGS Map NC0091, Buxton, 1:24,000. Trip Duration: Three to four hours 6 miles. They fill the parking lot to over-flowing during the windy spring and Got its name from all the folks from Canada who come to the Outer Banks to ![]() The launch site is known as "Canadian Hole." It Trip Highlights: This area is noted for its clear water, Of the sound and make for easier hunting. Underwater, so you will need to look there. I've found severalĪrrowheads in the peat very close to the shore. Artifacts such as arrowheads and other remains ofĪn Indian village can be found in the clear, shallow water. This is where the "LostĬolony" supposedly ended up. Water is very clear and full of fish and shellfish. The salt marsh on the sound side of Buxton is protected from the wind. Once just sand, only to return the next week to find it covered back up again. I've walked on the beachĭuring the winter and spring and come upon shipwrecks uncovered where there was Sometimes the waves uncover what they once claimed. If you get a chance, walk the beach a while. Some never completed their trip and were blownĪground by fierce nor'easters and hurricanes. ![]() Tried to take advantage of the north- or south-flowing currents that passed Victims of shallow shoals (sandbars close to shore), storms, and war. Than 1,000 ships have sunk off the shores of the Northern Outer Banks, the This is the heart of the area known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." More Sometimes this isĪ gentle mix sometimes they come together with such force that they throw fishĪnd shells far into the air, sink ships, and flood the land. TheyĬollide just a few miles off Cape Point at the Diamond Shoals. North to south, and the mighty Gulf Stream, which runs south to north. Two currents come together here: the Labrador Current, which flows The land is never really owned, just borrowed until the next nor'easter or hurricane.Ĭape Hatteras is now a vacationer's paradise, but it was once a captain's It's not easy to get here, to live here, or to leave. Where sea, sand, nature, and people come together in an uneasy mix-that's a good way to describe Cape Hatteras. ![]()
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