Ocracoke Vacations, Ocracoke Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

To wind up our trip we had planned to drive the length of the Outer Banks, taking a two-hour ferry ride from Ocracoke Island back to the mainland.  This is a time-consuming venture, but turned out to be the best part.  Once you get south of Nags Head, the surrounding quickly transform into the remote, rugged environment I had in originally envisioned and this redeemed the Outer Banks completely.   We started off around 9AM to beat the traffic through Nags Head, and ...

I hope to complete a Travel Blog showing all the pictures of the places my wife Jenny and I have lived and visited since we bought our first computer when we lived in Hawaii in 1998. We've spent most of that time travelling around the globe and I've spent many hours organizing all the digital pictures. Hopefully, TravBuddy will be a way to show off all the places we've expereinced in the world. The picture of us is taken from our balcony on the East China Sea in Nakadomari, Okinawa.

The ferry ride to Ocracoke was fun, but a little hot - not as breezy as I thought it would be because of where our car was located on the ferry.  Plus the sun was BLAZING today - none of that rain nonsense from yesterday - and this evening I discovered sadly that I am sunburned.  :(  I'd say it was worth it, though.....  :) We had fun watching the families with kids crowd up to the 'front' where all the cars were facing, only to realize that the other end of the ferry was...

Ocracoke is home to the British Cemetery.  A British Naval ship patrolling our waters was sunk by a German sub in World War II.  There were no survivors.  The four bodies recovered were buried in a small plot here, and the British Royal Navy flag flys over it.  You don't really think about World War II being fought on this side of the Atlantic, but German subs sunk many ships right off our coast, and we managed to sink a few of their subs.  Ocracoke is also hom...