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Hatteras Island took a pounding from the Atlantic this past weekend. Waves reshaped the coastline, leaving roadways buried beneath freshly formed dunes. #NCwx

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The Outer Banks, North Carolina, feel gloriously endless. Drive south long enough and the land gets strangely thin. Atlantic Ocean on one side. Pamlico Sound on the other. In places, there isn’t much between them besides dunes, marsh grass and Highway 12 running toward the horizon. More than 100 miles of barrier islands stretch along this part of North Carolina, and Cape Hatteras National Seashore protects roughly 70 miles of coastline. The islands themselves are always changing. Wind moves sand. Waves reshape beaches. Storms wash over dunes and sometimes cut new inlets through them. People living here have spent centuries adjusting to a coastline that refuses to stay put. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is a good example. The black-and-white tower has stood since 1870. By the late 20th century, erosion had brought the Atlantic dangerously close, so in 1999 engineers moved the nearly 200-foot lighthouse about 2,900 feet inland. The move took 23 days. The waters around Cape Hatteras have caused trouble for ships for centuries too. Known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, this stretch of coast is filled with shoals, strong currents and rough weather. More than 1,000 vessels are estimated to have been lost near Cape Hatteras alone. Lighthouses went up along the coast, followed by Life-Saving Service stations where crews watched for ships in trouble and headed into the surf when they spotted one. A different kind of history happened farther north. In 1900, Wilbur and Orville Wright arrived looking for a place to experiment with flight. The steady wind, open sand and isolation around Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills made the area a good fit. On December 17, 1903, their first powered flight lasted 12 seconds. Three more followed that day. The open ground around Wright Brothers National Memorial is worth paying attention to. The wind and empty space were a big part of why the brothers chose this place. Farther south is Jockey’s Ridge, the tallest natural sand dune system on the East Coast. Highway 12 continues through Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon and Buxton, with long stretches where the houses disappear and the dunes take over again. Eventually you reach Hatteras, where the road stops at the water. From there, the ferry carries you to Ocracoke. Ocracoke is also where Blackbeard was killed in 1718 after a fight with Royal Navy forces near the island. Today it’s much quieter. There’s a small village, miles of beach and no highway bringing you straight onto the island. You have to cross water to get there. That slower pace is part of the Outer Banks. You pass through a village, the houses thin out, and before long you’re driving with dunes on either side and barely anything ahead. The coastline has wrecked ships, moved beaches and forced people to relocate a lighthouse. The same steady winds also helped the Wright brothers get an airplane off the ground. Cape Hatteras became the country’s first national seashore in 1953, helping preserve a huge stretch of these islands from continuous development. You notice that from the road. The Wright Brothers site, Jockey’s Ridge, Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and Ocracoke are all worth stopping for, but I’d leave just as much time for the drive between them. That’s the part I’d remember most: long stretches of Highway 12 with dunes on both sides and hardly anything ahead. I write about places like this in my newsletter....the history and little details that give you another reason to go. If that sounds like your kind of travel, subscribe.

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