Category Archives: Southern Outer Banks

Beach Walk Weather

Posted on May 20, 2013 by dsobotta

Living along North Carolina’s Southern Outer Banks tends to spoil a person.  We like our weather warm but not too hot.  Cold weather which is often defined as anything under fifty degrees Fahrenheit is not welcome even in … Continue reading →

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Unexpected weather

Posted on May 10, 2013 by dsobotta

To be honest most weather here along the coast is unexpected, but I certainly do not blame our hardworking weather folks.  With so many of us living near bodies of water with different temperatures, I am surprised that … Continue reading →

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The North Carolina Miracle

Posted on April 29, 2013 by dsobotta

The other day someone commented to us that the state where they were born was a good place “to be from.”  The implication was that their home state was not a good place to live.  Somehow those of … Continue reading →

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Our Coastal Spring Is On Track

Posted on March 23, 2013 by dsobotta

Send to Kindle All it takes is a little slightly cold weather and the warmth loving souls living along North Carolina’s coast start to believe that spring has forsaken us.  The truth is that it is just weather. If you … Continue reading →

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There Are Lots of Egrets, But There Is Only One Frank

Posted on February 9, 2013 by dsobotta

We live on White Heron Lane just up the White Oak River from Swansboro, North Carolina.  We are just off Hampton Bay on the river map. Great egrets used to be called white herons.  It should be no … Continue reading →

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A January Boat Ride

Posted on January 29, 2013 by dsobotta

January is not a particularly tough month here on the coast of North Carolina.  One of my few concessions to winter is that I wear cotton socks inside my crocs.  The crocs still have plenty of ventilation, but … Continue reading →

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Winter By The Gut

Posted on January 27, 2013 by dsobotta

Most people have never heard of a piece of water being called a “gut”.  I first saw the term used when I visited Newfoundland in the early seventies.  There I found places on the map like Famish Gut, … Continue reading →

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December Waters

Posted on December 2, 2012 by dsobotta

Most people would be surprised to hear me say that December is a good time of the year to be living by the water.  This will be our seventh winter here on the Crystal Coast and experience says … Continue reading →

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Living by the Inlet

Posted on September 19, 2012 by dsobotta

In 2003 an impromptu anniversary celebration along North Carolina’s  Southern Outer Banks ended up changing our lives.   For years before that trip to Beaufort, NC, a lifelong attraction to the sand and surf kept pulling me back to … Continue reading →

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Warmth that won’t go away

Posted on July 27, 2012 by dsobotta

There is something magical about eighty degrees.  If you can break eighty degrees in early spring, you feel like that winter has been defeated.  When the ocean water gets to eighty degrees, there is no longer a shock … Continue reading →

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