The Outer Banks

 

The Outer Banks are a group of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. The beaches here are open and non commercialized. We are staying in a campground in Croatan National Forest and are surrounded by salt marshes and maritime forests. It is so peaceful.

You’d be hard pressed to find a coastal area with more history than the Outer Banks. This is where Blackbeard and hundreds of other pirates ships met their end in the Graveyard of the Atlantic; where the first English settlement, in the new world, in 1587, was established and mysteriously vanished, three years later, before an English ship bringing supplies could return; where the Wright brothers took their first flight.

Ironically, after setting up camp, and asking some local Carolinians what the area was famous for, all they could talk about was a food truck, called Captains Kitchen, and it’s “world famous “ shrimp burger. We haven’t made it to the Graveyard of the Atlantic museum or seen the Wright Brothers Memorial  but we have had our first ever shrimp burger, and it was delicious!