National Running Day

National Running Day, held annually on the first Wednesday in June, is a day when runners everywhere declare their passion for running. It is a coast-to-coast celebration of a sport and activity that is simple, inexpensive, and fun. It’s the perfect way for longtime runners to reaffirm their love of running and for beginners to kick off a lifetime and life-changing commitment.

Outer Banks Runcations is excited to celebrate National Running Day by partnering with the OBX Hospital’s new Urgent Care Center and the Town of Southern Shores to kick off a summer of healthy living, running and racing. With such an active running community on the Outer Banks they are encouraging both long time runners and people that are looking to make positive changes in their lives to come out and celebrate by participating in the National Running Day 5k.

What is a Runcation?
Outer Banks Runcations is the premiere racing event company on the Outer Banks – offering family fun and friendly 5k racing. Outer Banks Runcations was developed to address the fitness and running event experience much sought after by Outer Banks vacationers. The event series operates during the summer season and invites runners of all levels/paces and walkers. Each event will assist community non-profit/charitable organizations with financial assistance and avenues for education and awareness.

National Running Day 5K Details:
Event: 5K Road Course
Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Time: 6:00AM
Location: The Marketplace Shopping Plaza in Southern Shores
Race Field: 250
Registration Fee: $5 (includes refreshments and unique finisher gift)

For more information, visit the Outer Banks Runcations website or contact Outer Banks Runcations at outerbanksruncations@gmail.com or (252) 489-8239.

The Currituck Club, Outer Banks, North Carolina

The famed Outer Banks of North Carolina has further cemented its status as a burgeoning golf destination, with a popular trio of area courses cracking the North Carolina Golf Panel’s Top 100 Courses rankings for the first time ever.

On the heels of Kilmarlic Golf Club earning a No. 14 spot among Golfweek’s 2013 “Best Courses You Can Play” in North Carolina, Kilmarlic now joins The Currituck Club and Nags Head Golf Links in the 2013 Golf Panel rankings of the finest courses in one of the country’s best golf states.

“Having three ranked golf courses on the Outer Banks definitely puts us on the map as a golf destination,” said Ben Bridgers, General Manager of Nags Head Golf Links and OBX Golf Association member. “It’s a great honor for Nags Head to be in the Top 100, especially after having to recover from Hurricane Irene. We feel like the club is a hidden gem as a great test of golf located in a beautiful place.”

The Top 100 courses are determined by a scoring system in which panelists are asked to consider such factors as conditioning, routing, design, strategy, memorability, fairness, variety and aesthetics. The panel’s rankings are published annually in the April issue of Business North Carolina magazine, and are detailed on the panel’s website (www.NCGolfPanel.com).

The Currituck Club (No. 71), designed by world-renowned architect Rees Jones, rolls across diverse coastal terrain with soundside views distinctly its own on the northern end of the barrier island in the town of Corolla. Although a grand design, this course is also the area’s most demanding, especially when the wind kicks up.

Located on the mainland and five minutes from the Wright Brothers Bridge, Kilmarlic Golf Club (No. 84) is a popular Tom Steele design nestled along the marshland of the Albemarle Sound and host course for both the 2004 and 2009 North Carolina Opens. For the past three years in the fall, Kilmarlic has also hosted the Old Dominion/Outer Banks collegiate championship.

Nags Head Golf Links (No. 98), crafted by Bob Moore, plays hard along the inner waterway on the southern end of the Outer Banks. The front and back nine closing holes along the sound are particularly spectacular. Nags Head Golf Links’ bar and restaurant is also home to some of the most beautiful sunsets on the Outer Banks, with views not only across the Roanoke Sound, but also toward three other sounds (Albemarle, Croatan and Pamlico). 


The OBX golf experience is further enhanced by two other courses located on the Currituck mainland. The Pointe Golf Club and The Carolina Club are a pair of immaculately manicured and conditioned golf courses around – definitely worth a day trip off the island to go play. After all, the sister layouts are owned and operated by a man who also runs one of the region’s major turf grass companies, and both courses were built on what had previously been fertile farm land.

For more information about Outer Bank golf, and to book your Outer Banks golf getaway, please visit http://www.OuterBanksVacations.com or call 866.884.0267.

Bodie Island Lighthouse, Outer Banks North Carolina

After a four-year long renovation, the Bodie Island Lighthouse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, will open to climbers on Friday, April 19, 2013.

Until now, only lighthouse keepers, family members and a few others have been allowed to climb the 214 steps, or 156 feet, to the top.

“The end result of this project is the perfect balance of saving historic fabric yet making the lighthouse accessible to the public,” according to a park service news release.

Bruce Roberts of the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society says the opening is attracting national attention from lighthouse enthusiasts. The tower was built in 1872 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The lighthouse is one of the few that still has its original first order Fresnel lens, an encasement of prisms more than 6 feet in diameter that magnifies and sends the light toward the sea.

Guided tours will be offered at the Bodie Island Lighthouse at set intervals, on a daily basis, and will offer park visitors a memorable, unique, and personal experience in this 1871 historic structure as well as a pristine view of the surrounding lands from the top balcony.

On Friday, April 19, the National Park Service invites members of the local Outer Banks communities and park visitors to tour/climb the lighthouse at no charge. Free tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis and can only be obtained in-person, that day, on-site.

The lighthouse will remain open through Columbus Day, Monday, October 14. Tickets are required.

Please Join Us!!! The FIRST ANNUAL Blood Drive hosted by Seaside Vacations. We are trying to give back to our local community as well as the East Coast Victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Date & Time:         February 13^th   1PM – 6PM

Where:                  Seaside Vacations Parking Lot   MP 2.3
4820 N Croatan Hwy, Kitty Hawk, NC

Seaside Vacations and Coldwell Banker Seaside Realty are partnering up with Seascape Restaurant and Black Pelican.

They will be offering a 20% discount to those who can donate and offer the gift of LIFE.

Please mark your calendars. This will be an amazing event.

Please call or fax if you can contribute.  We look forward to making this a success. Appointments encouraged and walk-ins will be welcome!

Contact Kelley Horton 252-489-4476
or Deborah DelMastro 252-489-4473
FAX 252-449-8149
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The holiday “Diving Santa” program at the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island is set for Sunday, Dec. 23.  Santa suits up and makes a splash in the 285,000-gallon Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit from 1-2 p.m. and 3-4 p.m. Aquarium visitors can have souvenir photos taken with Santa by FotoFX, and relay Christmas wishes via the Aquarium’s Neptune Communication System. Youngsters can deliver their wish list in the specially designed holiday drop box. Cost is $5 per person in addition to Aquarium admission.

For more information, call 252-473-3494 ext. 239.

Filed under: Holidays Tagged: aquarium, Christmas, fish, Holiday Event, holidays, NC, North Carolina, OBX, outer banks, santa, Scuba Diving, seaside ]]> http://blog.outerbanksvacations.com/2012/12/20/santas-seaside-workshop/feed/ 0 36.089543 -75.708907 36.089543 -75.708907 seasidevacations http://blog.outerbanksvacations.com/2012/12/14/tis-the-season-to-give/ http://blog.outerbanksvacations.com/2012/12/14/tis-the-season-to-give/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:23:47 +0000 Seaside Vacations http://blog.outerbanksvacations.com/?p=11087 Continue reading →]]> For the past few years Seaside Vacations has “adopted” children through the Angel Program to sponsor for Christmas. This year we adopted 3 children from Hatteras Island: 2 sisters and a little boy. As you may know, Hatteras Island has not had the luxury of using NC12 as a normal means of traveling since Hurricane Sandy. The road is limited to 4-wheel drive and is shut down when there is ocean over wash.

We asked employees of Seaside Vacations & Coldwell Banker Seaside Realty to donate money, which the company matches. Thanks to the donations received these three children will enjoy a wonderful Christmas. I can picture the girls riding their new bikes and the little boy scooting across the floor on his new inchworm.

Happy Holidays from Seaside Vacations!

Photo taken at the Nags Head Woods Preserve

The weather has been GREAT considering that it’s already December! It’s a bit overcast outside and around 48 degrees. The winds are NNE around 15 mph. There’s a 0% chance of rain today and 10% chance later tonight.

The fishing has been slow. There has been some word of puppy drum being caught from the surf earlier this week. The water temp is around 53 degrees.

The surf has been knee to stomach high and the forecast calls for choppy conditions calming as the afternoon approaches.

If you’re keeping up with us from anywhere else in the world, remember: Now is the time to book your 2013 vacation!

Seaside Vacations Holiday Food Drive

Help Seaside Vacations and the Outer Banks Beach Food Pantry provide meals to local families this holiday season.

Thousands of men, women and children struggle with hunger and rely on food banks — especially during the holiday season.

As part of our “Vacation with a Purpose” program, Seaside Vacations is promoting our Holiday Food Drive campaign to assist the Outer Banks Food Pantry. Be sure to bring in your nutritious, non-perishable food donation — because every little bit helps!  (If you are visiting the Outer Banks, please consider dropping off any unopened, leftover food on your way home.)

Where: You can drop off your non-perishable items at the Seaside Vacations’ Kitty Hawk office (4820 N. Croatan Hwy.).

Deadline: December 15, 2012

Most needed items:*

• Canned and dry milk
• Tea
• Dry beans
• Hamburger/Tuna/Chicken Helper
• Stuffing mix
• Cake mix and frosting
• Jello/pudding mix
• Healthy snacks (popcorn, pretzels, breakfast bars, raisins)
• Condiments (ketchup, mustard, salad dressing, salt and pepper shakers)
• Cat and dog food

*No perishable food items or open containers should be donated. 

If you have any baby food, formula, diapers and/or baby care products, please donate them to Creative Choices Crisis Pregnancy Center at 500 S. Croatan Highway, Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948. They can also be reached at (252) 441-1818.

Monetary donations can be mailed to Beach Food Pantry, P.O. Box 1224, Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948.

Remember, if everyone does a little, no one does a lot.

Thank you for your support and Happy Holidays!

Since Turkey Day is a mere three days away, today we are sharing a protein-packed infographic all about Thanksgiving.

Did you know that the first Thanksgiving lasted for THREE DAYS?! Can you imagine a 3-day all-you-can-eat-turkey-stuffing-mashed-potatoes-cranberry-sauce-pumpkin-pie-buffet in today’s world? Imagine the number of tryptophan-induced comas resulting from all that turkey consumption! Everyone might start to wonder if Uncle Fred is ever going to wake up.   (I guess Black Friday wasn’t exactly at the top of the Pilgrims “to do” list back in those early years.)

Any way, take a few moments and feast your eyes on our Thanksgiving: Food for Thought infographic. Then, when you’re sitting around the dinner table enjoying some post-gluttony conversation, you can amaze your family as you spout out random facts about this holiday of thanks. (You know….like what exactly a Turducken is.)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Outer Banks Infographic: Thanksgiving – Food for Thought

Outer Banks Infographic: Thanksgiving – Food for Thought