…from Emerald Isle in Carteret County down to Sunset Beach. Work began Monday and is expected to end March 15. The first part of this year’s project took place in January between Emerald Isle and the Virginia border. “Lost fishing gear is a common occurrence every year in North Carolina’s…
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State wildlife officials seek volunteers to tally terrapins
…the tally footprint to expand in recent years from routes mapped along Masonboro Island in New Hanover County to stretches of estuaries at Sunset Beach in Brunswick County to Cape Lookout in Carteret County. “More people need to be involved,” said Cathy Meyer, who, along with her late husband, Peter,…
Our Coast: Why Tar Heels Love Wilmington
…beach area has something completely different to offer, all positive, all different.” Wrightsville Beach offers a vibrant restaurant and late-night scene, and is touted as one of the best surf spots in the U.S. Carolina Beach boasts a new boardwalk, affordable accommodations and the family-friendly summertime carnival. Kure Beach is…
Stemming the Stampede
…ocean to sound area that abuts the 4,500-acre Currituck National Wildlife Refuge and encompasses beach, wild marshland and the residential community. Conflict was inevitable. Lines of vehicles filled with tourists snaked through the unpaved sand roads in Carova from sunrise to sunset. People got out frequently to take photographs. The…
Volunteers Protecting a River
“And those who were seen dancing, were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche SUNSET HARBOR — Meet N.C. Coastal Federation volunteers Kevin Talon and Phyllis Evans, members of what’s become known as the Lockwood Army, so-called because of their united,…
State issues swim advisories at several sites
…officials Wednesday lifted a precautionary advisory against swimming in the ocean at the junction of Seawatch Way and Fort Fisher Road North in Kure Beach. State officials this week have issued public advisories against swimming at ocean and sound sites. Kure Beach A sewer spill has prompted state recreational water…
All Blue Week aims to hook Wilmington on a blue economy
…Waynick Blvd., Wrightsville Beach. Cost is $50, with a cash bar on board. The Blockade Runner’s sunset cruise on the Carolina Runner will depart from the dock across from the hotel’s property. There will be a presentation on the sustainability practices that has earned the Blockade Runner designations as an…
Take a Bear Island Camping Trip
…on his spare frame. He sits in the lumpy chair across from me, speaking in quiet tones about the place he spent more than 20 years protecting in his prior career as the superintend and ranger at Hammocks Beach State Park and still spends as much time as possible, just…
Ode to the Salt Marsh: Paddling the waters less traveled
…light changes, fog rolls in or out. Sunrises or sunsets, moonrises or sets, I find solitude in the salt marsh. There are hundreds of acres of marsh that I paddle on a stand-up paddleboard, an SUP for short. There is little to no sound from my craft that tops out…
After Travels West, NC’s Coast Beckons
…returning from the Outer Banks, a friend texted me a picture of some tracks etched in the sand on the beach in Emerald Isle. From my years as a park ranger patrolling the beach of Bear Island, the tracks were familiar to me as those made by a seal hauling…
Legislature Pauses, Environmental Bills Wait
Silhouette of wind power stations over the sea at sunset. A wind project moratorium running through 2018 cleared both chambers early Friday morning. File photo RALEIGH – Going into the final day of the 2017 long session Thursday, the fate of dozens of environmental provisions, some in multiple bills, was…
‘Late Fishing’
Photo of the Week: Nov. 16-22, 2015 Photograph by Jody Merritt of Beaufort. Photographer Jody Merritt captured this image, “Late Fishing,” Oct. 20 at Atlantic Beach. “I had gone over to the beach to try and get some sunset photos when I noticed this lone fisherman. He was one of…