North Carolina Oyster Week, October 11-15, 2021
October is a key month for N.C. oysters. The wild-caught season begins Oct. 15 and continues through April.
It’s Oyster Week in North Carolina
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October is a key month for N.C. oysters. The wild-caught season begins Oct. 15 and continues through April.
It’s Oyster Week in North Carolina
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The Dismal Swamp Canal Welcome Center is located adjacent to the Dismal Swamp State Park, offering trails, exhibits and ongoing programs in Camden County, NC. Docks are provided by the Dismal Swamp Canal Welcome Center, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR and a NC DOT Rest Area facility. See September 16 Update.
Greetings,
Hope you had a great weekend! We are starting to see an uptick in boating traffic along the canal as well as the beginning of some fall colors appearing. Boaters have reported some patches of duckweed near the South Mills drawbridge and lock, but at this time no major issues. We’ll keep you updated if something changes. Our neighbors at the Dismal Swamp State Park remain closed to visitors due to construction. The park’s pedestrian bridge was removed from the water last week to be worked on.
Canal is open to traffic with locks operating on their normal schedule. We look forward to great fall season and appreciate everything you do to keep boaters updated & ready to cruise the Dismal Swamp Canal!
Please let us know if you have any questions or we can assist in anyway.
Many thanks,
Sarah
| Sarah Hill Director, Dismal Swamp Canal Welcome Center Chairperson, Camden County Tourism Development Authority 2356 US Hwy 17 North, South Mills, NC 27976
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To all East Coast Boaters – this passage is a must. History, primitive beauty, and welcoming layovers are not to be missed. And this welcome center has the nicest people I have ever met. Get a sticker for you car or boat and a cap for your noggin!
A longtime CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, historic Edenton always has an exciting calendar of events! Edenton is at the mouth of the Chowan River on the northwest shore of Albemarle Sound
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Oriental is home to longtime CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, Oriental Marina and Inn, lying on the eastern banks of inner Oriental Harbor. Our thanks to Bill Brubaker for these kind words.
Very knowledgeable and helpful dock hands.
Laid back marina, great place to stop. Great atmosphere due to the friendly folks running it.
Showers are super clean and they provide towels, soap, and shampoo.
Tiki bar is cash-only.
All-in costs seem to be about $2.25 a foot.
Ben Matthews
Click Here To View the Cruisers’ Net’s North Carolina Marina Directory Listing For Oriental Marina
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A longtime CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, Dowry Creek Marina is owned by the Zeltner family who want to roll out the red carpet to transients, doing whatever you might need during your visit. This highly praised and transient friendly marina lies off the AICW/Pungo River north of Belhaven, NC.
What a wonderful marina to stay at. Clean, organized and friendly. Will always be a part of our travels. Thanks to all staff.
Tony Correlli
Click Here To View the Cruisers Net North Carolina Marina Directory Listing For Dowry Creek Marina
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Old Topsail Creek connects New Topsail Inlet with the Waterway at Mile 270. Buoys 1 and 2 are inshore, on the northeast side of the inlet. LLNRs given below are incorrect.
THE SHOAL ADJACENT TO OLD TOPSAIL CREEK BUOYS 1(LLNR 30032 [34°20.7287N / 077°39.9956W, 34.345478 / -77.666594]) AND 2 (LLNR
30033) HAS STARTED TO CLOSE OFF THE ENTERANCE TO THE CREEK. DEPTHS BETWEEN THE
AIDS WAS OBSERVED TO 5 FT AND BELOW ACROSS THE ENTIRE CHANNEL. ALL MARINERS ARE ADVISED TO TRANSIT WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
The Dismal Swamp Canal Welcome Center is located adjacent to the Dismal Swamp State Park, offering trails, exhibits and ongoing programs in Camden County, NC. Docks are provided by the Dismal Swamp Canal Welcome Center, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR and a NC DOT Rest Area facility. See Sept 16 Update and Dismal Swamp Canal Closed. Our thanks to James Newsome for these kind words. See In Memorium Robert Peek.
Historian David Cecelski illustrates with photos and family lore the story of fishers from Down East Carteret County who found their way to Lake Erie more than a century ago.
Whitehurst fishery: A Down East community on Lake Erie
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In a year with very few tropical systems, Hurricane Four of 1913 received barely a notice by the Raleigh office of the Weather Bureau of the United States.
1913 storm thrashed ships, and a rescue led to accusations
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These live-fire drills in the New River restricted areas, inshore and offshore, are associated with Marine Base Camp Lejeune and, as indicated in the notice below, these areas are closed to navigation and restrictions will continue for some time.
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Photographer Charles Farrell captured how mullet fishermen in the fall of 1938 “made do,” as historian David Cecelski explains, on Bald Head Island during the Great Depression. Bald Head Island Marina is a CRUISERS NET SPONSOR!
Our Coast’s History: Varnamtown’s Fishermen 1938
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Geographer Roger Payne has recently published his second reference guide to the names of places along the Outer Banks.
Geographer explains what’s in Outer Banks place names
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A longtime CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, Dowry Creek Marina is under new management and ownership by the Zeltner family who want to roll out the red carpet to transients, doing whatever you might need during your visit. This highly praised and transient friendly marina lies off the AICW/Pungo River north of Belhaven, NC.
Dowry Creek Named NC Clean Marina
Marina Dock Age
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What a wonderful marina to stay at. Clean, organized and friendly. Will always be a part of our travels. Thanks to all staff.
David Cecelski looks further into the work of photographer Charles A. Farrell, who documented fishing communities across the North Carolina coast in 1930s, including the menhaden industry in Beaufort and Southport.
Our Coast’s History: Menhaden Fishing Days
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An interactive museum exhibition about Earth and space science is opening up at Cape Fear Museum of History and Science in Wilmington.
Discover ‘Sun, Earth, Universe’ at Cape Fear Museum
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Historian David Cecelski found interviews from the Great Depression from a seaman from Ocracoke, a country doctor from Lake Mattamuskeet, a Norwegian dredge boatman in Beaufort, a washerwoman in Elizabeth City and others.
Hard times: Voices from the Great Depression on NC coast
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The Ocracoke Island Discovery Center will be open from 9 a.m.-noon. and 1-4 p.m., seven days a week.
Ocracoke Island Discovery Center now open to visitors
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A boat nearly crashed into them, then they realized there was no one on board.
Roanoke father-son duo rescue missing boater 40 miles off North Carolina coast
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Albemarle Plantation Marina, a port on the Albemarle Loop and a CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, is located just off the AICW on the northern shores of Albemarle Sound on Yeopim River/Creek.
We visited this as one of our Albemarle Loop stops. Two free dock nights, just pay for electricity. Gorgeous residential development with many amenities – pool, laundry, golf, two restaurants, etc. BIG, so you might want to rent a golf cart ($25/2 days, $35/week). There are means to provision from a local grocery Food Lion?) that has a reasonable $ delivery service.
Fueled up upon arrival – very easy and price competitive ($2.70/gal diesel that date).
Very helpful/accommodating dock staff, most everyone I met there very nice (including the residents), and a must stop in my opinion. We got hit with a gustnado and lost a bimini, but that was mother nature, not AP.
Hits – I think pretty shallow in spots. I kicked up a lot of mud (4′ draft). No incident.
Open to the south, so the 12 mile fetch can produce rollers that come on in.
I intend to go again.
James H Ward Jr
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A new section focused on the Southeast region is now on the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit, a website designed to help people find and use tools, information and subject matter expertise to build climate resilience.
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit now features Southeast
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