Seaside Vacations’ top 100 things to do while on vacation!
- Beach it!
- Take a day trip to Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
- Keep going, and take the ferry to Ocracoke
- Visit Wright Brothers Monument and Museum.
- Eat a dolphin boat at Johns Drive In.
- Watch the sunrise from the Nags Head Pier.
- Climb Jockey’s Ridge.
- Buy some chicken necks, string, and a dip net and go crabbing.
- Visit the docks at Oregon Inlet Fishing Center at 4:00 PM and watch the charter boats come in.
- Shop in Duck.
- Visit Coquina beach.
- See all four light houses
- Go to the Lost Colony
- Pack a picnic lunch of pimento and cheese sandwiches and sweet tea.
- Shop in Manteo
- Sit in the surf
- Beach it again
- Enjoy an ice cream cone
- Take the Corolla Wild Horse Tour
- Sleep in
- Go to Mann’s Harbor and see 100,000 roosting Purple Martins
- Ride a boogie board
- Get an air brush tattoo
- Leisurely walk through the Elizabethan Gardens
- Build a sand castle
- Pick crabs
- Take a Dolphin Watch tour
- Take a garbage bag and pick up litter
- Beach it again
- Fly a kite
- Visit the NC Aquarium
- Go outlet shopping
- Steam some shrimp
- Visit some antique shops in Currituck County
- Play a round or two of golf
- Go fishing
- Take a Kayak Eco Tour
- Go to the Outer Banks Music Showcase
- Watch a $5.00 movie at the old Pioneer Theatre in Manteo
- Eat breakfast at the Nags Head Pier.
- Kayak the Roanoke Sound
- Beach it again
- Visit the Chicamacomic Lifesaving Station
- Eat a soft shell crab sandwich
- Visit the Elizabeth II at Festival Park
- Take another long walk on the beach
- Enjoy a free show at one of the summer performances by the NC School of the Arts
- Walk the beach after dark
- Play putt putt
- Visit the Frisco Native American Museum and Natural History Center
- Collect shells and sea glass
- Listen to the tree frogs at night
- Enjoy one of the many excellent restaurants
- Visit the Outer Banks History Center
- Go wreck diving
- Catch a wave and go surfing
- Take an air tour over the Outer Banks
- Enjoy an evening cruise
- Sit at the dock at the top of the bay and do nothing
- Take a friend tandem hang gliding
- See a working fishing village in Wanchese
- Read a book
- Make a piece of pottery at the Front Porch, MP 6
- See classic art at the Seaside Art Gallery
- Play tennis on a local school court
- Look for one of the many pirate ghosts that haunt the Outer Banks
- Go to an Outer Banks Daredevil’s Baseball Game
- Go horseback riding with Back Country Outfitters or Equine Adventures
- Rent a jet ski
- Visit gallery row
- Go bird watching at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge
- Take a cooking class at Outer Banks Epicurean
- Get a weekly flex pass for the Outer Banks YMCA
- Take a hike in Nags Head Woods Preserve
- Rent a bike
- Eat seafood
- Watch the stars
- Take a lot of pictures
- Feed the seagulls
- Fish or site see from one of the fishing piers
- Rent a 4 wheel drive jeep and drive thru Carova to the Virginia line
- Visit one of our many churches
- Shop with the locals at Food Lion on Friday nights at 8:00 PM.
- Spend a rainy day at the movies, jammed in a store, or stuck in traffic…..
- Take a day trip to historic Edenton
- Get a massage, pedicure, manicure, or facial at the Sanderling Resort
- Attend a red wolf “howling”
- Go parasailing
- Cook out on the beach
- Ride your bike down the beach road path
- Keep a journal of your vacation
- Sit on the beach from high tide till low tide
- Make a “steamer bucket” for dinner
- Read the local papers…..Coastland Times and the Sentinel
- Reserve your vacation home for next year
- Eat Carolina barbeque
- Study the life of Blackbeard, Manteo & Wanchese, and Virginia Dare
- Watch a Nights of Rodanthe, which was filmed on the Outer Banks
- Attend a local church fish fry
- Ponder the splendor of one of nature’s great wonders……The Outer Banks
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