Part Four of Jimmy’s Outer Banks Diary is now available at Margaritaville.com.
This time Jimmy writes about his adventures on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina.
Maybe the thing that had attracted me here in the first place, other than the unusual name, was the fact that Ocracoke’s history was significantly effected by two things that have always interested me very much – lighthouses and pirates, which meant I was on a “research expedition”. …
The loading area was situated next to one of those great old Coast Guard bases that had been turned into a school. I do love the designs of all the old Coast Guard stations and one day, somewhere on some stretch of protected water; plan to build myself a boat house based on one of those original designs …
It is a new year and hopefully a new era being ushered in. My next trip is to the Pacific in February, where I plan to do this all over again, on another island on another latitude. I will give you a clue – Aloha. Farewell Outer Banks. It’s been a lovely cruise.