Hi all,
This is my first official post, but I am a long time lurker and adventurer. Since we started having children, my adventuring has been limited significantly which is a major blow to my adventurous lifestyle. In the past, it was not abnormal for my buddies and I to hike up into the mountains in the dead of winter and camp for several days. Mind you, I live in NE Ohio, so winters can be a bit cold.
This was the first year that the kids were old enough to start doing some serious hiking and camping. Previously, we have taken them to a Shennandoah NP and hiked a few miles of the Appalachian Trail, Hocking Hills for all their trails and some other local State Parks.
I was given the ok to plan a trip out West which would be a 20 day summer trip to the Badlands, Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Tetons. This would have included a few back country excursions with the 4 of us. I had already begun upgrading equipment when the found out that the hospital had denied part of my wife's vacation time because of staffing issues. We were only given the ok to take 10, which is not enough time to visit the destinations.
We decided to travel to the Outer Banks, which is our go to destination. We currently have a Nissan Pathfinder for off-roading and a silverado for pulling our travel trailer.
In the past, we have taken our pathfinder down there and explored the beaches and Cape Point(Diamond Shoals), which is where the Northern Labrador Ocean Current meets the Southern Gulf Coast Current. When they meet, it deposits all the sand that its carrying at the point. The changing weather is constantly changing the face of the Outer Banks and Cape Point is a prime example of the rapidly changing geography.
In the spring, national news hit that a new island had formed off the point. This is not unheard of, but it hasn't happened in such a dramatic fashion in the past. I knew we would have to visit, do some fishing and exploring.
Here are some aerial pictures of the island from last Saturday:
In recent years, the National Park Service has closed beach access here and on many other ramps in the Outer Banks due to migratory bird nesting season. This year, they changed their practice some which gave us the opportunity to get out there and have some fun.
I have created a few youtube videos of the changes that occurred before and after a storm, but I can't seem to figure out how to post them. It keeps bringing up an error that I can't post links. If anyone has some insight into that I would appreciate the help.
This is really a special place and I hope more are able to go an visit the island before mother nature continues changing it back to the way it once was.
I will post more pictures when I get this photo/video thing figured out.
Best regards,
Grub
This is my first official post, but I am a long time lurker and adventurer. Since we started having children, my adventuring has been limited significantly which is a major blow to my adventurous lifestyle. In the past, it was not abnormal for my buddies and I to hike up into the mountains in the dead of winter and camp for several days. Mind you, I live in NE Ohio, so winters can be a bit cold.
This was the first year that the kids were old enough to start doing some serious hiking and camping. Previously, we have taken them to a Shennandoah NP and hiked a few miles of the Appalachian Trail, Hocking Hills for all their trails and some other local State Parks.
I was given the ok to plan a trip out West which would be a 20 day summer trip to the Badlands, Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Tetons. This would have included a few back country excursions with the 4 of us. I had already begun upgrading equipment when the found out that the hospital had denied part of my wife's vacation time because of staffing issues. We were only given the ok to take 10, which is not enough time to visit the destinations.
We decided to travel to the Outer Banks, which is our go to destination. We currently have a Nissan Pathfinder for off-roading and a silverado for pulling our travel trailer.
In the past, we have taken our pathfinder down there and explored the beaches and Cape Point(Diamond Shoals), which is where the Northern Labrador Ocean Current meets the Southern Gulf Coast Current. When they meet, it deposits all the sand that its carrying at the point. The changing weather is constantly changing the face of the Outer Banks and Cape Point is a prime example of the rapidly changing geography.
In the spring, national news hit that a new island had formed off the point. This is not unheard of, but it hasn't happened in such a dramatic fashion in the past. I knew we would have to visit, do some fishing and exploring.
Here are some aerial pictures of the island from last Saturday:
In recent years, the National Park Service has closed beach access here and on many other ramps in the Outer Banks due to migratory bird nesting season. This year, they changed their practice some which gave us the opportunity to get out there and have some fun.
I have created a few youtube videos of the changes that occurred before and after a storm, but I can't seem to figure out how to post them. It keeps bringing up an error that I can't post links. If anyone has some insight into that I would appreciate the help.
This is really a special place and I hope more are able to go an visit the island before mother nature continues changing it back to the way it once was.
I will post more pictures when I get this photo/video thing figured out.
Best regards,
Grub
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