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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Outer Banks Treasure: Corolla Outback Adventures Wild Horse Tour
If you haven’t got a chance to see the wild horses that roam the northern beaches of the Outer Banks, it is a must see, add it to your 
bucket list now! All i can say is it is absolutely beautiful to see these horses in their natural habitat, and amazing what our community does to protect them.
Since i have lived in the Outer Banks I have seen the horses before, usually one or two along the beach in Carova. I never had been on actual tour, or knew all the history associated with the reason they are on the island. I was so excited to have the opportunity to join Corolla Outback Adventures in a tour with some other Seaside employees. It was definitely a treat 
It was a bumpy ride but we got to see some great landmarks and were lucky enough to see a ton of wild horses, including a baby horse that was only a few weeks old. We also got to have some fun driving through the back “roads” hitting some big hills and even trudging through some water! The best part of the trip was on the ride home….while making our way back to Corolla we saw some horses on the beach and they were…. well you are just going to have to watch the end of the video to find out!
If you are a Seaside guest you can take advantage of our Club Seaside program which includes Wild Horse Tours. Visit our page for reservations with Corolla Outback Adventures.
OBX Pic O’ the Day: Quiet Morning in Kitty Hawk
Outer Banks: 7.21.11 - Quiet Morning in Kitty Hawk
Quiet morning on the beach. Some morning fog is burning off. A great beach day ahead, 90′s and bright sun. Light south wind blowing some fresh salt air. There is a little longboard wave, but not much. Fish are biting – offshore, near shore, piers, bridges, surf, and Sound.
Outer Banks Beach, Surf, & Fishing Report – 7.20.11 – Great summer day…
Outer Banks: 7.20.11 - Hot at Avalon Pier
Good morning. Here’s the Outer Banks Beach, Surf, & Fishing Report for Wednesday, July 20, 2011.
This video was shot at the Avalon Pier in Kill Devil Hills at 8:30 AM.
Great summer day, and some great beach weather. The heat has returned. Temps have jumped back to the 90′s and will stay hot through the rest of the week. A gorgeous day today with sun, temps in the low 90′s, and a light offshore wind out of the southwest.
The offshore wind is cleaning up the small swell we have. Some knee high surf coming through. An ok longboard wave, but it’s pretty flat. We’ll continue to have the southwest wind and knee high swell for the rest of the week. Some fun longboarding to be had.
There is a tropical storm roaming in the Atlantic. TS Bret formed off of Florida a few days ago. It shouldn’t be a threat to the OBX. It seems to be moving out to sea, and the surf forecast doesn’t look too promising, but there is still hope that Bret could send some surf our way by the weekend. We’ll see.
Lots of tight lines for OBX fishing. Offshore is catching yellow fin tuna, wahoo, dolphin, and some bill fish mixed in. The piers, bridges, Sound, and surf are very consistent with a wide variety of fish – croaker, spot, sea mullet, speckled trout, Spanish mackerel, trigger fish, flounder, blue fish, and cobia.
Hope to see you soon. Have fun!
Guest Post: HomeSchool.com’s Favorite Outer Banks Attractions
Over the past few weeks, we’ve mentioned that HomeSchool.com has offered their official “seal of approval” to the Outer Banks and Seaside Vacations, and we’ve also included a post about some of the OBX day trips that are great home school opportunities. As a third installment on our home school theme, below is a guest post from www.HomeSchool.com that offers their must see Outer Banks attractions.
Without further ado…
Guest post from www.HomeSchool.com:
With so much to see, experience and learn, you’re likely to need more than one visit to the Outer Banks to take in all of the extraordinary attractions in the area. Following, is a list of some of our favorite attractions (in no particular order):
1. Pirate Adventures of the Outer Banks, Manteo
http://www.piratesobx.com/home/homeindex.html
2. Jockey’s Ridge State Park, Nags Head
http://www.jockeysridgestatepark.com/
3. Island Farm, Manteo
http://www.currituckbeachlight.com/islandfarm/
4. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Buxton
http://www.nps.gov/caha/planyourvisit/climbing-the-cape-hatteras-lighthouse.htm
5. Equine Adventures, Frisco
http://www.equineadventures.com/
6. Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, Hatteras Island
http://www.fws.gov/peaisland/
7. Currituck Beach Lighthouse, Corolla
http://www.currituckbeachlight.com/
8. Wild Horse Tour, Corolla
http://www.outerbanksvacations.com/club-seaside-wild-horse-tour.htm
9. Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Hatteras Island
http://www.nps.gov/caha/index.htm
10. Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, Manteo
http://www.fws.gov/alligatorriver/
11. Wild Horse Museum, Corolla
http://www.corollawildhorses.com/mustang_store.html
12. Whalehead Club, Corolla
http://www.outerbanksvacations.com/club-seaside-whalehead-club-tour.htm
13. Bodie Island Lighthouse, Nags Head
http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=357
14. Elizabethan Gardens, Manteo
http://www.elizabethangardens.org/
15.Nags Head Woods Preserve, Kill Devil Hills
http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/northcarolina/placesweprotect/nags-head-woods-ecological-preserve.xml
Now you can see why we can’t wait to go back!
OBX Pic O’ the Day: Great Beach Day
Outer Banks: 7.19.11 - Great Beach Day in Kitty Hawk
The mild temps have given way to some summer heat! Great beach day. 90′s & sun. Nice offshore wind out of the southwest. Pretty waist high surf; real clean with the offshore wind. Tight lines all around; fish are biting – dolphin, tuna, wahoo, cobia, blue fish, croaker, flounder, spot, speckled trout.
Outer Banks Beach, Surf, & Fishing Report – 7.18.11 – Perfect Beach Day
Outer Banks: 7.18.11 - Beautiful in Kill Devil Hills
Good morning. Here’s the Outer Banks Beach, Surf, & Fishing Report for Monday, July 18, 2011.
This video was shot at the Sutton St. beach access in Kill Devil Hills with a quick stop at Lillian St. in Kitty Hawk to grab some surf video.
Happy Monday! The gorgeous weather from the weekend is carrying over to today. We’ll have temps in the low 80′s today with bright sun and a light wind out of the southwest. The temps will jump back to the 90′s tomorrow, and we’ll continue the heat wave for the rest of the week. Great beach weather!
The light offshore breeze out of the southwest is cleaning the knee to waist surf that we have in the area. Fun longboard wave and warm water in the 70′s. The waist high swell should stick around most of the week, and the wind should cooperate most the week, so we’ll have a fun, albeit small, surf most of the week. There is also a chance that tropical storm Brett that just formed off the coast of Florida could send a little swell our way later in the week. We’ll see.
OBX fishing is going strong. Offshore is catching dolphin, yellow fin tuna, wahoo, and some bill fish mixed in. The piers, bridges, surf, & Sound are all very consistent with a wide variety of fish – spot, croaker, blue fish, speckled trout, flounder, and some cobia.
Hope to see you soon. Have fun!
If You Cant Handle the Heat…Get Out of the Kitchen
OBX cooking extraordinaire Outer Banks Epicurean announces their 2011 summer cooking class schedule. Not only are they a Club Seaside partner and offer Seaside guests a rare opportunity to prepare local food, but their food is amazing!! They also often provide neat events along with the cooking class, for example their Colington Crab, Kayak and Cook class on Wednesdays, offering you the chance to take the kayaks out around Blount Bay then head back for some wine and blue crab! Sounds relaxing huh? Here is the weekly schedule with everything you need to know to plan your one of a kind vacation event!
SUMMER 2011 Cooking Classes
Call 252.480.0005 to register
Mondays
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Cookin’ Outer Banks Style
Subject: Seafood and Seasonal Veggies Ravioli
Class Type: Demonstration, Discussion, Tasting, Hands-on
Menu: Learn how to make homemade pasta. The freshest local seafood and seasonal harvests will be
the filling when you make your fresh pasta into raviolis
Fee: $49 with wine tasting of 3 specially selected wines add $10 per person
Tuesdays and Thursdays
9:00 am (offered only when crabs are molting)
Colington Crab Shedder Tour and Cooking Class
Learn why Colington is soft shell capital of the world. Tour a local shedder operation, then walk back
to Epicurean and learn how to cook and eat softshell crabs!
Fee: $59 with wine tasting of 3 specially selected wines add $10 per person
Wednesdays
9:00 am ** Colington Crab Kayak and Cook
** Meet at Wayback Kayak on Little Colington Island at 9:00 am
Start the morning with coffee and scones at Wayback Kayak then paddle thru the natural beauty of
Blount Bay. See crab shedders from the water. Next, step inside the kitchen of Outer Banks Epicurean
and begin a private cooking lesson focused on Cookin’ Outer Banks Style – featuring Blue Crabs!
Fee: $89 with wine tasting of 3 specially selected wines add $10 per person
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
6:00 pm
Cookin’ Outer Banks Style
Subject: Learn to Cook Local Outer Banks Catch
Class Type: Demonstration, Discussion, Tasting, Some Hands-on
Menu: The freshest local seafood and seasonal harvests will be used to make easily recreated recipes.
Fee: $49 with wine tasting of 3 specially selected wines add $10 per person
More About the Classes: •Registration for all classes is required by noon the day prior to the class.
•Epicurean cooking classes are relaxed, fun ways to learn new culinary tricks and taste fresh local harvests, catches
and specialty items. •Participants will be offered generous tastes and samples of all recipes in all classes. Unless the
description of the event states otherwise, please do not plan for a cooking class to be a dinner substitute if you are a big
eater. •Classes usually last an hour to an hour and a half to two hours depending on participation. Some classes are
three hour cooking lessons and do cost a bit more… and you eat a bit more, too! •We would love to plan a lesson for
your group. Girlfriends, office mates, new moms, people with diabetes, families… we can help you learn to cook new
recipes while you have fun and enjoy each other and new tastes and flavors.
10th Annual Sandbar 5K: August 7th, 2011
Put on your running shoes and get ready for the 10th annual Sandbar 5K, benefiting the Outer Banks Relief Foundation.
Sunday August 7th @7:30 a.m.
KITTY HAWK, NC / BEACH ACCESS MILEPOST 4.5
RACE: The Outer Banks only 5K Beach Run/Walk is set on the sands in front of the historic “Old Station” public bath house in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This charity race is a benefit for The Outer Banks Relief Foundation which raises funds to help people on the Outer Banks with debilitating diseases and families in crisis.
COURSE: The 10th Annual OBX BANK Sandbar 5k Race starts on the beach at the MP 4.5 lifeguard tower and runs north and then south back to the start/finish line.
AWARDS/DIVISIONS: The 1st place overall male and female finishers will win medals and vacation packages on the Outer Banks. The 2nd & 3rd place overall male and female finishers will win other gift certificates and medals. Medals will also be given to the top 3 finishers in the following age groups: 9 and under, 10-12, 13-17, 18-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55 and up.
ENTRY FEE: $25 per entrant until July 30th and $30 from July 31st on. Entry fee includes an event T-shirt and the after party sponsored by “Michelob Ultra”. Entry fees are non-refundable. Please make checks payable to: The Outer Banks Relief Foundation. On-line entries can be made through Active.com before 8/5/2011. Beach entries will be accepted from 6:15am-7:00am on the day of the race if space is available. A maximum of 500 participants will be allowed in this event.
Entry forms and payments can also be mailed before 7/30/11 to: OBX® Sandbar 5K Race c/o Island X-Per-Tees
2224 South Lark Ave.
Nags Head, NC 27959
NEW: Pre-race packet pick up will be available at the Outer Banks Sports Club (located on the bypass at MP 10.5) on Saturday, August 6th between 4pm and 7pm.
For additional information, or registration information, check out outerbanksrelieffoundation.com or email obxsandbar5k@outerbanksrelieffoundation.com
Outer Banks Beach, Surf, & Fishing Report – 7.15.11 – Windy but gorgeous…
Outer Banks: 7.15.11 - Pretty but windy at Kitty Hawk Pier
Good morning. Here’s the Outer Banks Beach, Surf, & Fishing Report for Friday, July 15, 2011.
This video was shot at the Kitty Hawk Pier at 9:00 AM.
Half way through July! Time flies, but we still have a lot of summer left. A bit windy on the sandbar, but a gorgeous summer day and a great weekend ahead. Bright sun, blue skies, and temps in the 80′s all weekend.
We’ve had a couple days of stiff northeast wind, and the ocean is a bit rough as a result. No swim flags are flying this morning. The good news about the wind is that it is sending a cool breeze on shore with some fresh salt air, and it is pushing the warmer water closer to shore. Water temps are up to the mid 70′s. Great day to be in the water once the red flags come down.
Unfortunately no surf to report. The swell is here, but the surf is a mess from the wind. The swell should stick around for the weekend, but so will the east wind, so good surf is not likely. Keep your fingers crossed for early next week.
Outer Banks fishing is going great. Offshore is catching yellow fin tuna, dolphin, wahoo, and bill fish. The piers, bridges, Sound, and surf are are very active – croaker, speckled trout, spot, blue fish, Spanish mackerel. But every day is unique based on the conditions – wind, water temps, clarity of the water, etc. Since we’ve had the northeast wind for a couple days, we’ve seen a big increase in flounder with some great keepers, so flounder is the hot catch right now.
Hope to see you soon. Have fun!
