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OBX September Park News: Celebrating Our Public Lands!
This is Saturday, September 24, is National Public Lands Day, a day to show our love for the amazing natural, cultural and historic places that are protected for future generations to marvel at and enjoy. Here in the Outer Banks, we are lucky to have several public lands that are unique enough – both environmentally and historically – to be protected. While our mission is to protect and enhance our Outer Banks national parks – Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial – we also greatly appreciate our friends and partners who work to protect other areas of our islands like Friends of Jockey’s Ridge State Park, Pea Island Preservation Society, Inc., The Nature Conservancy, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge and more. This Public Lands Day, we are thrilled to celebrate all of these protected spaces and the natural beauty and impactful stories they preserve.
We encourage you to get out and visit your public lands – here in the Outer Banks or wherever you are – to celebrate with us! Check out our online and in-person opportunities this week to learn more about our Outer Banks national parks in particular (details below).
See you in our parks,
Jessica Barnes
Director, Outer Banks ForeverDonate Today Ask A BioTech:
Why Excavate Sea Turtle Nests?
Did you know that biological science technicians at Cape Hatteras National Seashore carefully track, learn from and protect hundreds of sea turtle nests each summer? One of the ways our BioTechs learn from these nests is by excavating them – digging them up to examine what’s inside – once they have hatched. In our last “Ask A BioTech” article of the season, Ben Ranelli, Seasonal Biological Science Technician on Ocracoke Island, explains the nest excavation process.
Learn More Want to see a sea turtle nest excavation in action? Tune in to our Facebook page TONIGHT at 6 p.m. (ET) when we’ll premiere a recent nest excavation on Ocracoke Island with park rangers from Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Meet Your Volunteer: Paul Hinds
Our Outer Banks VIPs (Volunteers In Parks) are essential to the thriving of our parks. As we celebrate Public Lands Day this month, we want to introduce you to Paul Hinds, a former volunteer at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site! If you visited Fort Raleigh this summer, you likely met Paul, whose volunteer efforts not only created a fun and engaging experience for visitors, but helped improve our park for years to come.
Meet Paul Calling All Educators:
Plan Your OBX National Park Field Trip!
If you’re an educator at a school in Currituck, Dare, Hyde or Tyrrell Counties, we want to help you get your students to Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial! Thanks to an Open OutDoors For Kids grant from the National Park Foundation, we are able to cover transportation costs for field trips for your students in kindergarten through 12th grade. To learn more about this opportunity, please email Jessica Barnes, director of Outer Banks Forever, at JessicaBarnes@OBXForever.org.
P.S.: You can also schedule remote learning field trips for your students! To learn more, email our parks at obx_interpretation@nps.gov.
Upcoming Events:
Save the Dates!
Pints for Parks on Public Lands Day: Saturday, September 24 Come out and celebrate our Outer Banks national parks with our friends at Swells’a Brewing Beer Company in Kill Devil Hills on Saturday, September 24, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.! We hope to see you there!
Click here to learn how our friends at Swells’a are supporting our national parks through 1% For The Planet!
Join us on Saturday! 
Bodie Island Lighthouse 150th Anniversary Celebration: Saturday, October 1 The Bodie Island Lighthouse will celebrate 150 years of illumination on October 1! You’re invited to join us, our park staff, our friends at the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society, and special guests for morning and evening events.
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The Current Models of Highfield Marine Tenders
HIGHFIELD, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, is the leading builder of aluminum-hulled RIBs. Performance and strength are the key features of every HIGHFIELD RIB. Their advanced hull designs and Italian-influenced interior styling, keep alive the reputation of a dry-riding, seaworthy and stable craft that can handle rough conditions, as well as please the discerning eye.The Current Models of Highfield Marine Tenders
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Happy Autumnal Equinox – September 22, 2022
Our long, hot summer is finally coming to an end today with the autumnal equinox, which marks the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere.
It is also one of two days in the year that you can stand an egg on end. Try it works!
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International Culture Fest, October 15, Fishermen’s Village, Punta Gorda, FL
There is always plenty to do around Charlotte Harbor, like an International Culture Fest! While berthed at Fishermen’s Village Marina, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, you are certain to enjoy visiting Western Florida’s beautiful Charlotte Harbor/Peace River.
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Albemarle Sound boatbuilding exhibit to open Oct. 11
Whether building boats for business or recreation, or used as a means to freedom, boatbuilders, along with their vessels and shipyards, have impacted the maritime history of the Albemarle Sound.
Employees of Creef Boatworks in Wanchese are shown on a schooner under construction. Photo courtesy Outer Banks History Center, Manteo.
Albemarle Sound boatbuilding exhibit to open Oct. 11
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Why is Boat Speed Measured in Knots?
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Your Guide to NC’s Brunswick Islands by Chris Chamberlain
Holden Beach is home to a sizeable commercial fishing fleet, and it’s fun to watch them unload at the docks. Image: North Carolina’s Brunswick Island
Your Guide to NC’s Brunswick Islands
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Here Come the Wind Farms; Don’t Discard That Old Radar Reflector by Peter Swanson
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To Point or Not to Point, the Starlink Question by Peter Swanson
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