Posted on 08/11/2006 4:01:22 PM PDT by Pharmboy
NY/NJ guy going for a week of beach in the Outer Banks. Where do we shop for cigars? Liquor? Food? Is a trip to Kitty Hawk worth it? Places to hear some good music?
Thanks NC Freepers...
Agree w/ all you've said.
Go for the village experience and hit Hatteras and Ocracoke. Laid back and lazy.
We'll be in Duck Sunday night...my daughter and son in law are yuppies...but great ones!
Our beach experience has always been in the NE--Long Island, Cape Cod, Jersey Shore. This will be different and we are all looking forward.
Best,
PB
My bro, sis-in-law, their kids & her family are all out there now.
Be very afraid.
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Tell him if he sees a tall guy with a pretty wife walking a Golden Retriever starting on Sunday on the beach at Duck to come by and say hey.
Duck is not the end of the world, but you can *see* it from there. :-)
Wonderful place. You won't want to leave.
You'll be back, I promise you.
That's what everyone--including my friends and neighbors up here--say. We are truly looking forward to coming down. Arrive tomorrow evening.
Stay away from the Outer Banks...too many "Yankees" around...
LOL!
Beware the ferry schedule. You can not run into a restaurant and grab a quick dinner before hopping on the last ferry. The restaurants know that, the hotels know that, you'd be wise to know that too.
If you want to rough it for a couple of days and have a four wheel drive, I an put you on a beach where there's no one in sight for miles.
FRmail for details.
Thanks...would have liked to do that, but we have a large family contingent and will be staying put for the week in the house.
NY/NJ guy going for a week of beach in the Outer Banks. Where do we shop for cigars? Liquor? Food? Is a trip to Kitty Hawk worth it? Places to hear some good music?
You're in the ideal place. Everything you need is on Rt. 12.
Head north - Food Lion shopping center has lots of shops.
Tim Buck II - also north of you, ditto.
Near Pine Island are a few shops on the sound side of Rt 12, Liquor store, Carry-out, You'll have to look for cigars. There is also a really cool mom and pop freash sea food store - excellent.
Kitty Hawk? I enjoyed it but most of the family group I was with were bored.
IMHO, everything you need and want is available on the North Beaches. We seldom venture south of 158. On the other hand if you like the Myrtle Beach style vaction experience, head south.
Have a great time!
Best,
PB
When I get back home and people ask me how the OBX were, I'll tell 'em it's sorta like the Hamptons, only with nicer people.
The Outer Banks are nearly 200 miles long......
The old communities of Nags head/Kitty hawk are tourist type places. Not to the degree of Myrtle beach but nearly. There is also Roanoke Island and Manteo up north. There is the Lost Colony an interesting historical park. I went last fll and was disappointed by the food. The old really classic seafood palces seem to have been rooted out. We didn't have a better sea food meal than is available in East Tennessee.
Hatteras has enclaves of places to stay interspersed between long stretches of wild beaches of the National Sea Shore.
Okracoke is mostly wild beach with a nice village at the end. Portsmoth is vacant, a wild island with a deserted village. The islands doen to Morehead city are all wild.
I have come to prefer the solitude of Ocracoke. Nags Head was once nice but to me is now cluttered with tourist junk.
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