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The ocean is a mystery of moods. At dawn, she glimmers like glass, her waves kissing the shore in a gentle lullaby. By night, she can rise in thunderous rage, her winds screaming and her waters surging ashore. Few forces on Earth embody this duality more than hurricanes, the ocean’s fury unleashed in spiraling…
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“Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.” – Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates (1724) The Devil of the Outer Banks If there’s a ghost that haunts the windswept shores of the Outer Banks, it’s the fearsome pirate Blackbeard, real…
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Stretching over 100 miles along the coast of North Carolina, the Outer Banks, often called “OBX”, are a string of barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. It is a place where history whispers through the dunes and the horizon stretches wide with promise. This narrow thread between the Atlantic Ocean and the…