Posted on 08/05/2017 1:44:38 PM PDT by be-baw
Very wild and primal, the wind and the waves. In one sense it's fragile, just a 200 mile long string of overgrown sandbars. The roads flood in a thunderstorm, and can be wiped out in a nor'easter. Signs of past storm destruction are easy to find. But, in another sense, it's a very tough place, it's endured all that and come back again and again and again, for the entirety of European recorded history and certainly before that. All the shipwrecks, they can't even name 80% of them, from the 1500's to today, with a surprising amount of naval battle going on there in World War II.
I love Mirlo Beach just north of Rodanthe on Hatteras Island, what's left of it at least, such a metaphor for the entire OBX. Named for a shipwreck, a fragile, beautiful place, so storm-wracked. Not that long ago, there were fantastical, elaborate beach houses there, stunning to come out of the Pea Island Wildlife Refuge into those, all in the Old Nags Head style, silvery-brown juniper shingles, some five stories tall, towers and captain's watches, really quite striking. Most of them have fallen into the Atlantic now, the island has shifted and the dune line invades the road. It looks as if Pea Island is trying to break off from Hatteras and become a separate island again, right there. Something vaguely California-ish about the place now, can't put my finger on it. Ocracoke feels the same way. But, those are red counties, so maybe it's a vibe of what California once was before it went all to hell.
One cool place out there that many don't know about would be the Mother Vine. It's a grape vine that appeared to have been cultivated when the Roanoke Island colonists first arrived in 1585. Huge, gnarled old thing, over 400 years old.
I'm headed out to the northern reaches of the OBX next week, to the Currituck Banks, where the famous wild Mustangs still run free and there are no paved roads. The beach is the road, officially Highway 12 North, right up to the VA line. Lived here practically all my life and have never ventured up there, I guess the cold water put me off in the past, it does get chilly once you get much above Hatteras after the Gulf Stream veers out to sea. But, I'm not planning on much ocean swimming anyway, the sea creatures seem to like it, pods of dolphin right up in the breakers practically every day, the occasional seal and whale sightings in season. Very much looking forward to it, although piloting a rented Yukon up the beach for the first time might be a little daunting. Hope I don't end up on Oregon Inlet Idiots, lol, haven't driven on sand in years.
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You’re being an idiot!
You wish that the charges were true, but they are not.
You are one of the destroyers.
That would break me if Hannity was caught doing that.
He seems like one of the last men of any moral character in media
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Destroyers have no time; only an undesirable destiny.
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Hannity will not be caught doing that. I’m sure his life isn’t perfect but he wouldn’t be spreading out crotch photos to his coworkers. Still, the enemy would love to spy on him electronically and see “everything he’s ever watched” or whatever, as well. He should get an old vcr if he watches anything he doesn’t want in the tabloids.
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