Outer Banks – First Impressions

here in the Outer Banks of North
Carolina i got a long ways to go oh man
it’s a sweet drop the biggest stretch of
undeveloped beachfront on the east coast
boat building still a thing here it’s
still a big thing it’s got AC generator
oh this is awesome makes me want to live
on a boat like that oh my god these guys
are shark fishing
you have to learn to read the water you
learn to read the sky see the sand just
blows up around these homes like snow
and look at that the road just stops
these are all shipwrecks yes sir there’s
evidence that the lost colony was
actually here there’s such bold people
going for it is this the story of the
Outer Banks trailer next to New Build
this is where I kind of got created on
this dock you know as far as fishing
blackbeard was captured here the
Virginiaians came down tricked him i
want to show parts of the country like
this also because I think we get a
skewed view of what America is right now
there is no place in the world I would
rather live than where I am
good morning guys here in the Outer
Banks of North Carolina a part of the
country most of us have heard of but
most of us have not been to including
myself so today we’re going to take a
mega road trip south here stop in the
little towns go to the wide open natural
preserves that it’s famous for talk to
the locals most importantly talk to the
locals and I picked this spot for
starting the video because I knew North
Carolina was first in flight but didn’t
know it started here in the Outer Banks
so first powered controlled airplane
flight by Orville in Wilbur Wright
December 17th
1903 right down there we’re going to get
down there there’s some markers the
first one I think was roughly 100 ft but
so wild the pioneers the explorers the
inventors of the time just getting on a
small winged device with a small motor
lying down with some handles and going
for
it it’s so crazy it’s like a little bit
over one long lifetime that’s how fast
things move i’m sure the aeronautical
geeks can get all over this and what’s
going on here exactly with the rail but
this guy was holding it i guess wind
came in and they went
airborne started right here the first
marker there first flight and then the
second and then the third not far after
and then the fourth was the big one way
down there near the tree
line all right guys so we’re at the
north part of the Outer Banks it goes a
bit more north but from what I’ve been
told it’s just more touristy more
developed this is called Nags Head and
Nags Head so far just feels like mostly
tourist rentals second homes at least
down in this part the further south the
more remote it gets I’ve been told so
we’ll be getting out of this soon
this is Ron Oak Island it’s one of the
oldest and most mysterious places in
American colonial history in 1587 the
English sent over a group of more than
100 men women and children to establish
the Rono colony now it’s known as the
Lost Colony because just a couple of
years later they all vanished nobody
really knows what happened so they say
no bodies and no buildings were found
these days there are two small
communities here manio and Wise we are
in the ladder now and from first
impressions looks like more of a working
class more of a locals neighborhood in a
local post
office this looks cool big
lawns little more space out here on Ron
Oak
Island it’s one harbor looks like a lot
of the seafood industry is still
happening here some fishing boats out
there i think it was in 1980 that cement
dock was built and then you see this
boat right there you know which I’ve
worked on that boat that white one i
worked on it this summer they built this
for a seafood industrial park and it
quickly regulated such as everything but
this is a dying deal fishing is fishing
is here sad because you know this is a
family-owned company here
1936 it’s the oldest fishing company on
the Outer Banks and Oh really yeah i’m
53 years old i made my living fishing
that’s my boat that’s my The other boat
is my boat oh it almost looks like a
Navy boat it is it is not it is a
Kelagic Long Liner boat one of the very
nicest Kelagic Longline boats on the
East Coast tied up working here on this
dock
you can’t get out and fish on it right
now i could i could but we’re regulated
such as that uh the money the product
that we have to sell see I know what I
know what it it is to sell the product i
know what it is to catch it i know what
it is to deliver it and it just ain’t
feasible when I bought this boat this
boat come from Newfoundland it was in
the perfect storm it has been wrote
written a book’s been written about it
linda wrote about it linda Green Law the
hungry ocean this Two Moon Charlie’s
boat right there i bought the boat from
him and I ended up uh doing well with it
for a while but the the foreign national
crew come with it and uh so you you buy
a boat as a fisherman and the crew comes
with it this is a different deal though
the men that work on that boat they’ve
worked on the boat since they were
teenagers okay you know so the boat
would go from Grand Banks to Brazil so I
ended up falling into that at the same
time that all the fisheries nose diving
is just not good for for a man to want
to go to work and try to support his
family you just you can’t make enough
now you quickly be messed up if you
don’t play your cards right what are you
doing now i work on this dock right here
and uh I deliver seafood this is where I
kind of got created on this dock you
know as far as fishing okay when I was a
boy I’ve covered all my bases too i’ve
outcaught everybody the stories that you
hear they’re about me what’s your name
chompers chompers so it’s like you’re
chasing your tail
just cruising around i’m going all the
way down to Hatteris okay different down
there right go to Odin’s Dock down there
you’ll see that crowd odin’s Dock
tailman’s right down there all right
have a blessed day thank you
looks like they’re doing ship building
out here let’s check this
out look at that beautiful
hole that is so
cool what is this 42 ft sport fisher
it’s a similar boat as as to the boats
around this area that take people
charter fishing for a living okay so So
it looks like that when it’s done sweet
so boat building still a thing here it’s
still a big thing here yeah big thing
fully custom that’s right fully custom
go upstairs and I’ll show you how that
boat starts so is Wes the place where
boat building is happening these days is
this like the number one place in the
Outer Banks on the Outer Banks yeah
there’s another place down on what’s
called the Crystal Coast which is uh
down around Morehead City and Bowfort
and they’ve got a lot of boat building
down there as well that would be Jarrett
Bay Boat
Works this would be a cold molded stem
right here you can see I had to make it
real thin to make it make that shape so
I have a jig for that stem and it gets
clamped to that jig with epoxy in
between the layers so who’s ordering a
boat like this uh I mean the the average
everyday guy that wants his boat to
stand out next to your Boston Wher or
your regular production what’s your
company harrison harrison boat so he’ll
be like “This is a Harrison.” That’s
right it’ll have my sticker on it and he
he just wants something that is uh
different than the average boat so it’s
like an artist signing their painting
that’s right that’s right oh that’s cool
it’s a one-ofa-kind you know custom boat
so if you don’t mind what’s the cost
roughly on something like this if
someone something like this with a T-top
is around 130 to 150 okay i’ll show you
one that’s down in the water uh that’s
just like this but finished uh here in a
minute that is beautiful how it tapers
at the end so that right there is a core
sounder built in 1972 by the Lewis
brothers down in Harker’s Island that
would be the Crystal Coast area see they
have a lot of boat building down there a
lot of it commercial boat building okay
cool or they used to we’re redoing it it
was made to be a commercial fishing boat
now it’s going to be a picnic boat or
just a pleasure cruiser that’s a
restoration this is a new one that’s
correct quite often you hear like the
trades are going away and this
customized like real craft type of work
is going away but not for you not for me
not for you know a lot of folks up in
Maine and up north are still doing more
traditional boat building than we do
duncan can I ask why did you decide to
go this route with your career i like
working with my hands you I get to do
some carpentry and plumbing and
electrical metal work metal work
fiberglassing you get to create things
like I’ve been working on that rub rail
half the day I drilled all the holes and
counter sunk all the holes started to
hang it so yeah when you go home at the
end of the day you can look at say “Oh
yeah that’s what I did today.” You’re
doing your dream job that’s what you
want to hear as a boss yeah it’s my
dream job for sure every day it’s uh
Don’t get me wrong there is a
considerable amount of cussing and uh
throwing down of tools you know there’s
some challenges yeah but if it was the
same every day and said in a in a
cubicle or something like that man woo
that’d be tough not your speed no no
that’d be tough
so where are we going we’re going right
down the road here to uh to the dock oh
cool thank you yeah yeah
i grew up walking over to the ocean from
my house with not much traffic not you
know every old-timer is going to tell
you that same uh that same story uphill
both ways yeah that’s right right okay
so is this the story somewhat of the
Outer Banks trailer next to New Build
well I mean hardworking people building
their first new house you know that’s
awesome that’s all it is that’s they
lived in a house that was basically a
double wide on pylons right there and
they were like “This place is too sweet
to uh leave here we’re going to build
our new house here.” You know
hardworking couple yeah hardwork that’s
awesome and uh they’re my family oh cool
all right so that’s how it is everyone
knows everyone huh yeah that’s Spencer’s
boatyard right there these are beauties
that’s your competition or buddy or what
is it i wouldn’t call it competition we
don’t build the same thing really you
know he certainly is dependent upon a
lot of people to get all that done those
are big boats big boats a lot of manh
hours that’s one of mine that’s one that
I own i would uh I guess I’d call that
my demo
boat i’ve got it down here getting it
ready cleaning it up fueling it up
getting it ready for uh for my son
coming home i’m hoping that we uh do
some fun things it’s been bowing like
this for months though oh this is
beautiful i didn’t even know you could
get custom boats like this i thought
they were all Yeah not many people do it
there there’s not not many people are
are building the smaller ones like this
that’s cool okay so Outer Banks the
culture still holding on would you say
in one is holding on for sure yeah yeah
this is where mostly locals live right
that’s right so this is a 23 maybe 2
years old oh yeah that’s a 28 that’s
beautiful wow that is a 16 years old now
this one was in the Bahamas for 10 years
until the Hurricane Dorian is this a
North Carolina hole design that’s right
right here which is the turndown it’s
also referred to as the raised shear
that would really be indicative of
Carolina style boats and all that but
raised shear and that’s where the tumble
home goes into the flare is this for big
waves or what is it that’s right it
It’ll handle bigger seas
and I’m going to show you my friend
Peanut that’s a picture of him right
there peanut yeah his name is Glenn Halt
he died about three or four years ago
the first boat that I was involved in
building when I was apprenticing with
Robin Smith was this 65-footer peanut
designed that boat that was 30 years ago
so there’s a ton of skill involved ton
of skill can’t be taught overnight
that’s right it’s it it’s it’s a long I
mean my regular my six sevenyear
apprentice was uh average to uh learn
what I learned again he drew that boat
and now I owned that boat he lived on
that boat for 20 years pan lived there
that’s right and I’ll show you on that
boat here that’s right out here oh cool
well I like that i was just driving
along saw your shop walked in sort of
how it works here yeah most of the other
shops are not really approachable like
mine you know okay yeah it just stands
out when you’re driving down the road
yeah i mean other ones have got you’re
basically going to drive into the hull
of a bolt boat if you don’t turn if you
don’t turn right most of the other shops
have gates and are not as Okay well I
got lucky then not as friendly to
approach you know what I’m saying i got
lucky you got unlucky now you’re hanging
with me i also grow elephant garlic
that’s what this is oh so this is your
zone out here yeah this is Yeah this
piece was Peanut’s property there’s my
uh what do you when he’s married to my
niece so you call him the my nephew
maybe yeah say he’s got a trip all those
folks there are from uh they’re from New
York upper state New York so a lot of
that going on chartering uh it is there
is a lot of that going on okay i talked
to a guy uh coming over here down near
the fish docks saying the fishing’s
pretty rough these days as far as being
a fisherman pretty tough oh it’s pretty
tough is that the consensus that’s the
consensus yeah okay like that’s a
commercial fishing boat but he’s taking
charters to make up for the time you
know augment his income okay okay so he
fishes also and does chartering that’s
right in the winter time he’ll have a
different rig on there where he can
where he can shrimp and get a lot of
shrimp with that outfit he’s just taking
people out showing them dragging for
shrimp and you know doing a various
things so people have iterated with the
times that’s right that’s right and
there’s more people doing that with
their commercial fishing boats they’re
taking families out and crabbing and uh
shrimping and etc offshore fishing is
still huge here i mean this is the hub
of the whole eastern seabboard as far as
tuna dolphin wahoo marlin this is the
central location for that i didn’t know
that yeah some of your biggest blue
marlin have been caught in Hatteris and
out of
ordin nobody’s ever going to make a
bunch of money at it but it allows uh
people a lot of my friends to uh make a
living doing it you know so still guys
making a living just fishing yeah
absolutely so a shout out to Peanut here
yeah that’s right he lived in here he
lived in here right at this dock for uh
20 plus years it’s yours right now it is
mine okay cool so you step the way I
step right here and then on this sto
like that
i’ve got it set up for uh listening to
albums oh nice yeah I got that oh this
is awesome yeah look at this now wow
beautiful woodwork in here again this
boat is uh 29 28 29 years old all of
this is a mahogany and this is a cane
that’s for ventilation what do you got
back there speakers i got speakers there
so you just come out put some records on
sort of jam out here that’s right after
work solo mission that’s right nice you
got a little heater for the winter
little heater it’s got AC and it’s got a
generator and all that what’s back there
uh they’ll show you the
uh couple state rooms as you can see I
got you know again I’ve just redone this
thing this is so cool isn’t that cool
makes me want to live on a boat like
this oh my god this thing and this is
more stable than most boats you’d live
on cuz she’s so wide you can see down
below that was a double stack V-birth
and I tore all that out and made it into
one large what’s it like sleeping on a
boat like this oh man it’s sweet it is
so sweet it’s just like getting rocked
like a little baby yeah i mean this one
doesn’t rock as much as like I say some
more narrow sailboat or something it’s
like you could have a dance party in
here it’s like a dance floor yeah that’s
right this You can see it’s kind of a
walkound situation which is pretty cool
let me show you up top there the uh
pretty big galley for a boat too
full kitchen
dishwasher look at that i’ll show you
watch your head come up here this house
this is like a whole another
area right this is where you drive and
operate the boat from and all these
windows come down you know so this whole
thing can be wide
open which is pretty cool watch your
head peanut you see these things right
here he was into Harley’s so he had two
Harley’s cinched down into there and
there that’s that’s why he had that was
for his Harleyies
whether it’s Europe or Bahamas or
wherever I cannot wait to get home you
love it i love it here i’ve had
opportunities to work in really sweet
places uh well I worked in Puerto Rico
for a month and I’ve I had the chance to
live in the Bahamas and work down there
but uh I like it here better for sure
and I also like sailing a lot that right
there is my catamaran that’s a
25year-old plywood catamaran my family
and I go sailing on that quite a bit
i’ve got all the cushions and everything
off right now you can see I’m doing lots
of little repairs well I ran into the
right guy Patrick that being you talking
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video i find myself down here every
weekend come upstairs i’ll show you this
this was never finished off until I got
the place this was like a uh place where
you store all your cushions and stuff
for your boat this was never a habitable
place you got an outdoor shower yeah
that was the first thing that I did you
can see oh this is awesome it’s only 400
square ft again I’m a woodworker too so
curly maple and uh Wow and that’s cork
on the backsplash there that this was
the that cork was the floor on the
41footer that I that I built doing
videos i’ve been to you know I go to all
parts of the country and world i’ve been
getting in with a lot of woodworkers
lately oh yeah just running into them
like out in Humble County California
uhhuh some great woodworkers out there
you know working with old growth redwood
all different types of wood this is This
is just beautiful that’s cherry this
right here is juniper or Atlantic white
cedar i use that a lot in boats that was
my first boat shop at the north end of
this island a buddy of mine did a
painting of it hard to find guys to work
yeah duncan’s been with me maybe seven
years or so and he’s kind of halfway
going out on his own like like people
will do like you did yeah like I did
exactly so that’s that’s a bit
challenging right you train you train
someone and but you understand it too
cuz you are that you are Duncan that’s
right
but he also knows that I get uh I get a
lot of sweet work that uh you know takes
a long time to build that reputation
that’s right that’s right i don’t think
you’re into the ocean i’m I’m just not
getting that vibe yeah yeah this is just
another more of that yeah charts
so we’re out here
that’s right we’re right here that’s
That’s a native name right that’s right
that’s a Native American name correct so
all these names Mano Wanchies yeah chief
Mano Chief Wanchese okay killed Devil
Hills yeah kill Devil Hills it started
there i came down here through Nagside
this just seems to be mostly tourist
rental is that the story came down to
here i’m going up here and then I got a
long ways to go oh man it’s a sweet
drive soon as you turn right here if you
don’t go on uh this is South Nags Head
right here you’re if you stay on this
road here you’ll no no houses and then
all of P Island no houses which is sweet
it’s really sweet so why have the Outer
Banks become so popular because I’ve a
lot of people have reached out to me
said “Go shoot videos on the Outer
Banks.” like a lot in the last couple
years is it from that Netflix show or
what is it uh look it it became more
popular during co that’s for sure i’m
going to Ochre Coke yeah Ochre Coke see
after you get on Hatteris you’ll see the
lighthouse here turn here and then
you’ll get on a ferry that goes way out
here and then back here then Ochre Coke
this right here is 13 miles long yeah
I’ll have I’ll have a video from there
right i’m meeting up with a guy that
speaks the Brogue right right that’s
cool grateful Dead grateful Dead my
daughter got me that one old Dead Head
yeah uh yeah that’s right my daughter
likes the same music that uh my wife and
I like what’s this place called the
Happy Shack that’s before I finished
shaking it who named it that you or your
wife uh neither one of us that would be
Peanut what happened in the Happy Shack
stays in the Happy Shack right the name
of that book Peanut that was Peanut’s
mother’s name Mildred so I kept that i
kept that along with the what he called
this
place what a cute little town this is
Mano totally different vibe than Wie’s
and look with YouTube what gets
attention
drama crime
homelessness
conflict and I’ve done videos with all
of those themes but most of America or a
good part of it is really like this
which is calm nice people pretty orderly
nice little town you got here isn’t it
great it’s beautiful do you live here
ma’am i do beautiful house thank you how
is it just calm tranquil it is it’s kind
of Mayberry mayberry mayberry that’s the
vibe used to drive by here andy would
drive by oh indeed he would
yeah guys so this stuff doesn’t usually
get as many eyeballs but I want to show
parts of the country like this also
because I think we get a skewed view of
what America is right now with the
internet with the political dialogue
with just all the you know back and
forth conflict stuff it’s a lot of it is
just this you know not so exciting oh
look at that beautiful theater there
this looks a bit
touristy but there are a lot of corners
of the country with nice old ladies
crossing the road and nice clean streets
but this just is not as interesting to
watch as you know
drama oh look at that
car that is
beautiful skeleton in the back
there and here we go the Lost Colony
Tavern i think they’re holding on to
some of the early history here poor
Richard Sandwich Shop nice buildings
quiet streets sir Walter Rally Queen
Elizabeth Street and driving by you can
see British flags alongside American
ones this place is deeply rooted in
British history they came here before
James Town and Plymouth look at this old
replica up
here that is
beautiful elizabeth II an English ship
from the
1580s and the name of the town Mano
comes from Chief Mano the first Native
American to be baptized into the Church
of England his tribe actually lived on
Hatteris Island which will be the final
stop on our trip today but he had a
close connection with the Rono people so
that’s how the town got its name
what’s the vibe here man first
impressions cruising through it’s just
like tourist town very Hallmarkesque
you start to learn everybody’s names and
become regulars and it’s just hey how’s
it going and very sweet and friendly
everything is all right here you can run
across the street and grab a sandwich
from Por Richards for lunch and just put
a sign on the door saying be back in 5
eat like things like that and of course
we lock doors and stuff but I don’t know
no bars on the windows exactly twinkle
lights though nice there is a true crime
book called Murder and Mano but Oh no
way nice but it is from that was from
the8s I believe early 90s maybe so the
Netflix Outer Banks series you said it
blew things up here yeah they So they
filmed down in Charleston and some of
the scenery they used was like really
accurate like some of the sound and
through the marshes and things like that
but the whole like cooks and pogues like
there’s not really a good side of the
island bad side of the island per se
okay it is all very touristy and I think
that show brought a lot of tourists in
cuz I when that show came out the first
season I was working at a surf shop and
you’d have people coming in and saying
“Oh where’s that lighthouse?” It’s like
it’s not even in this state so they
filmed in South Carolina mhm oh that’s
interesting yeah some in Wilmington how
did the locals feel about it i think
most people weren’t the biggest fan of
it
i think the biggest laugh that the
locals had was there was a ferry that
went from here to Chapel Hill there’s a
ferry that went in mhm okay yeah exactly
go ahead man don’t be sorry what are you
hanging out there uh for well it’s just
for kids fest you can you got kids fest
happening yeah we’re um local nonprofit
partnerships so we do um kids fest and
bunch of vendors um locally come and
it’s free for them record that here oh
that’s cool so free for anyone to come
yes it’s free um it’s for ages um birth
to five we’re a um early childhood
education nonprofit so um how’s how is
it going right now early childhood
education would you say
it’s the most important thing right the
birth the birth of five um is the most
important age and pouring into it and
supporting it is one of the best things
that we can do so and hopefully continue
to do so I’m you get a lot of purpose
out of it yes very much so I’m a um
family support uh services parent
educator cool so yeah so well thank you
for what you do thank you so much it’s
important thank you y’all have a great
day you’re on you’re on a video you’re
okay Oh yeah
how many we got today Orie 12 okay
that’s not too bad 12 boxes of books t’s
business you sell a lot of books oh yeah
we hand sell a lot our whole thing is
like putting the right book in the right
hands at the right time and all that
kind of stuff what do you mean hand sell
um so if there’s a certain book that we
really love a lot of times someone comes
in and is like they’re like “Hey I
really liked this book do you have
something similar or things like that?”
and we just walk through like different
options and oh I really loved this one
this one my boss really loved you know
and kind of give them a couple options
to okay to think through i love
supporting the local bookstore it’s a
beautiful thing downtown Books downtown
Books nice my favorite place we love
Indie Bookstores we just had Indie
Bookstore Day actually are they making a
comeback do you think i would say so i
think reading kind of started to make a
comeback i think a lot of books blew up
on Tik Tok and so I think that kind of
made like a whole circle moment do you
think people are just burning out in the
digital too
possibly at least a lot of people I
talked to they’re kind of trying to
escape reality to read some so
wow that’s He works hard huh he sure
does ory is the best ory how’s business
lately busy man busy huh okay all day
is Look at that north Carolina $2.89 a
gallon fill up the tank not even $30
have not seen that in a long time that’s
for
sure all
right guys that was quite a drive
roughly 45 minutes now in the town of
Rodan and look at that the road just
stops right at a big pile of sand
huh
interesting oh there we go beautiful
Atlantic water a bit brackish but
turquoise and blue out there
i wonder if there were others that were
removed it’s interesting how that one is
standing on its own over
there see the sand just blows up around
these homes like
snow lifting that
one and here we have the life-saving
station historical site home of
America’s forgotten
heroes let’s check this out
so what were you just saying like what
is this here well the uh United States
Life Saving Service was written by
Congress in 1870 okay as a result of all
the shipwrecks crashing on our shores
and out in the ocean on the shores and
so the citizens who used to affect all
the rescues finally went to Congress
practically in arms and said “You’ve got
to do something about ACE Rex.” So they
wrote the bill for the United States
Life Savings Service and that was in
1870 well prior to that in 1790 Congress
also wrote the bill for the Revenue
Cutter Service originally called the
Revenue Marine and their job was to
collect taxes and tariffs off the high
seas and that was our country’s only
source of income at the time and so then
it was in 1915 they merged those two
entities to create United States Coast
Guard and that’s interesting for a take
for you you’re great yes i have to go
meet a school so this is what was going
on here yes that would be the Merllo
rescue it’s our most highly decorated
maritime rescue we can tell you all
about it and All right she knows all the
news thanks i will need that leandra is
even more storied than you oh she’s full
of stories she’s Wow wow i’m Dina and
what’s your name peter hi Peter nice to
meet you this is Leandra do you want to
borrow my brush
leandra my son
hey it works there were a lot of pirate
attacks here too right mostly down
further down further blackbeard was Oka
Croak so he was beheaded right is that
the story yes the Virginiaians came down
tricked him they partied pretty hardy
the Yeah pirates did sure and so he saw
this ship but he didn’t see any men they
were down below so they come up charging
he jumps across on their boat thinking
there’s nobody there he’s got his swords
he’s got his guns he’s got He would
light firecrackers putting in his hair
so he looked like the devil cuz his eyes
were really black
wow and it was amazing how long it took
him to die they they shot him they
stabbed him he just kept fighting and
eventually they got him down and they
beheaded him and the the myth is that he
swam around the boat seven times with no
head another myth is that they put his
head on the boat and took the boat
Virginia’s boat back up to Virginia to
show that they killed him
scott Dawson you need to stop down there
at the Lost Colony Museum because he
knows a lot about Blackbeard he said
that’s not possible it would have rotted
it just didn’t happen is this in Boston
yeah okay when you first go into town
okay cool so just so much history here
huh look at all the Are these are all
shipwrecks yes sir every one of these
yes that’s a better map over there okay
so all the shipwrecks why it’s just a
hard place to sail Sam here you’ve got
the Labrador current coming down to
right here it ends right here at key
point then you’ve got the Gulf Stream
coming up this way you’ve got Diamond
Scholes it’s a sandbar 30 mi out and the
Gulf goes around that and it’s fastest
way to get to Europe in the sailing days
they were closer to shore you do not
want to be close to the shoreline the
undercurrent it’s all sand and that sand
is constantly changing so if you were a
captain you came last month it’s not the
same same place okay i noticed some of
these houses I drove by it looked like a
snowstorm but it was a sandstorm like
all the sand banks and it just blows
around everything so is an Alangquin
word it means sifting shifting sands
you’re on a barrier island that’s a
ribbon of sand you’re 24 miles out in
the ocean right now yeah so the sand
from the where the beach is is pushing
this whole island west and south three
inches a year oh interesting wow so when
there’s something going on in the Gulf
either down in New Orleans or down in
Galveastston area the picture like that
tells me there was either a hurricane
that started in Aruba or there was
something in the Gulf okay because of
volatility changes it turns the the
breakers are sometimes five five miles
out so that was World War I August 18
1918 so the Germans torpedoed it and
severed it in two it was her maiden
voyage she’d come from New Orleans
getting aviation
fuel and 42 guys ended up in the water
five were killed in the boiler
room six surfmen saved them there were
supposed to be eight one was on vacation
one
quit so John Alan
[ __ ] right here his descendants own
that Liberty gas station okay mr o’neal
right here who’s the cook and is asking
permission to go help these guys out cuz
he knew all the drills and Captain John
hollers back at him “Uh what you need to
do is you need to go make 200 biscuits
put whatever jam and and meat we have in
it these guys are going to have to eat
when we get them out of that water it’s
because it’s labor current it’s cold
gotcha how is the culture here now
that’s an interesting question i compare
it to Alaska i lived in Alaska
interesting it’s a fishing village and
in fishing villages people are
self-sufficient but when you want to be
social all you have to do or you need
something all you have to do is say it
and people will show up to help you out
okay so you can live a high level of
independence but there are people there
if you need them
mhm nature’s important you have to learn
to read the water you have to learn to
read the sky the clouds on this side on
the ocean side versus the sound side are
totally different and the clouds come
over here they move around and then they
go out to the ocean and we had a there
were some really black clouds and that’s
when I discovered how they moved because
it moved around and it come over here
and the next thing I hear is a lightning
strike we had the Lyall gun out they
were doing Everybody scattered
quick so we’ve been driving right up
there near that telephone pole parallel
to this and so the whole way the
camera’s been off for a lot of the time
but the whole way is just undeveloped
beachfront like
this from my understanding it’s the
biggest stretch of undeveloped
beachfront on the east coast and I got
to say it’s got like a almost like a bit
of a west coast feel in that sense it’s
a little bit of the west coast on the
east coast to see these massive
stretches of nature like this and as you
can see in North Carolina you can drive
your pickup out on the beach a lot of
people are fishing out here and whatnot
but the camera’s been off a lot because
it’s been open road small town vacation
rentals little local communities and
beach this is pretty much what it’s been
on repeat for the last hour or so
you’ve come here 30 years yes from uh
since 1994
wow from where montreal montreal yes and
how is it very fun very windy very cool
do you see big change in 30 years or no
down here the price are The price are
higher yes but the vibe is similar yes
we were in Island Creek before but it’s
too expensive okay renting the house
over there yes you know I grew up in
Vermont i used to go to Montreal all the
time in childhood see Canadians games
yeah well I loved it the hockey game is
over now for Montreal Canadian i know
you need to root for the Florida
Panthers maybe more
Toronto Canadian team maybe j
souvenir bye-bye
i think that’s the Quebec license plate
we will remember i believe that’s what
that means any Quebec viewers out there
what are you remembering is it the
heritage that would be my guess the
French
language so look at this beautiful this
is a nice zone very peaceful very chill
and for any Canadians that are worried
about coming to the US or vice versa I
just think it’s it’s a bit ridiculous um
well maybe your principles are you don’t
like the politics got it but uh as far
as people there is no friction nobody
nobody cares don’t let the internet and
TV manipulate you and control your mind
to the point where you won’t travel to
places that are going to be welcoming
and cool and I I say that vice versa i
have no problem i don’t know when I’m
going to Canada next but I’m not worried
about going to Canada at all unless
there’s a serious security risk i
wouldn’t have gone to a lot of the
countries I went to where the policies
or the political relations didn’t align
places like Saudi Arabia
Iran uh I wouldn’t go there now actually
that’s one I would not go to tajikstan
Usbekiststan at the time I was there
people are people politics are politics
all right this is a local little town i
like it i like it it’s very chill
back
wow
back
how you doing sir i’m trying to
understand all the Quebec plates is
there an event down here or something
there are a lot of trips here oh that’s
cool nice
well that’s cool you love it down here
yeah it’s a nice place all right sir bon
voage
well that’s interesting didn’t expect
that
yeah it’s all Canadians here
ontario
Ontario Ontario Quebec
you never know until you
go check this out british Sailor
Cemetery honoring their sacrifice on
December 14th
1941 Germany declared war on the United
States the Nazis launched Operation Drum
a swift and devastating blow to the
eastern seabboard in eight months German
yubot sank nearly 400 ships along the US
east coast on April 9th 1942 British
tanker was torpedoed east of Cape
Hatteris just south of here 28 of the 50
men on board perished the remains of two
men fourth engineer Michael Karens 28
and another unidentified sailor wash
ashore local citizens cared
compassionately for the fallen
respectfully laying them to rest with
military honors each year a community
ceremony honors the British seaman who
came to our
aid and here we have a very
small British cemetery
you grew up here yeah yeah I’ve lived
here my whole life so I live like two
houses away from the house I grew up no
one house away from the house I grew up
no way how was that i mean I love it
it’s like you know nature you know as
far as like the east coast this is a
national seashore no matter what there’s
places you can go and there’s just
nothing around you can either go back in
the woods you can go to the beach like
all of the southside is national park
that’s like the state can’t you know
it’s it is what it is it’ll always be
like that no way so not much more can be
developed here no this was a pretty big
place especially during World War II
there was a Navy base on the beach and
that was where they were monitoring for
submarine activity off the coast and so
it was like kind of hush hush there was
like a blowup tank and like a blowup
missile so that from off the coast it
looks like there was more here than
there was and the Navy kind of left a
little mess behind so that’s what we had
to clean up the last couple years the
erosion washed the beach away to where
the base was and there was like all
these structures that got left behind
and there was petroleum leaking and it
was kind of gnarly okay so that but
that’s all clean now so
Okay so you’re a surfer yeah yeah that’s
been my career since I was like 18 not
that I was like really making very much
when I was 18 or that that I make that
much now there’s not much money in
surfing unless you’re at the very top
but it’s kind of like a lifestyle thing
you know i get to see my family a lot
take my kids to the beach go surfing
with them like all right if it wasn’t
for the lifestyle there’s plenty of
other jobs out there that pay better
that’s for sure dude thanks for taking
me out here that’s awesome yeah so we’re
going to head We’re going to head out to
Cape Point this is kind of like our
famous strip of sand it’s a barrier
island so the sand changes but uh I got
to let the air out of the tire so we’ll
let the air out real quick yeah let’s
see i got two of them have you ever done
it yeah what do you want what do you
want to go down to let’s go to Let’s go
to 25 cuz it’s been pretty windy it’s
probably pretty soft
every time you go on the beach you drop
the air pressure yeah i mean if I’m
driving out somewhere where the I know
the beach is hard then I won’t worry
about it but I just filled these up
some of the beaches around here are a
little more packed down especially in
the winter time so you can get away with
you know more air in the tires
this time of year the sand like we
haven’t had much rain so the sand’s like
really powdery really windy so it’s
really
soft you used to be able to drive like
nearly everywhere and then back in 2012
we got all these new RV rules off-road
vehicle they closed down certain
sections and it’s not as free as it once
was but still it’s like you can go drive
on the beach not a lot of places you can
do that on the coast yeah right this is
wild out here all these trucks are
they’re all fishing yep people just want
to come out here and post up for the day
and enjoy the beach you know any of the
beaches you can drive on are somewhat
like this but this is you see how packed
in everyone is
it’s like this is the fishing kind of
epicenter of the island for as far as
beach fishing goes it gets crazy on a
good night when the drummer are biting
there will be a hundred guys lying
shoulder-to-shoulder with big rods and
someone hooks up and they’re all dancing
to get over and under each other it’s
It’s pretty cool nice so I’m guessing
you’d have like a Boston tea party here
equivalent if they said no more pickup
trucks on the beach yeah well that
actually happened so like back in I mean
relatively back in 2012 when they were
trying to implement all the new rules
cuz you used to be able to drive from
here all the way to Frisco which you
can’t really see the way the beach is
set up right now but yeah we had huge
organizations we got together and spelt
out save our beaches or save whatever
with trucks out on this strip of sand
cuz you see where all this sand is in
relation to the dune so where we’re at
right now 8 years ago would be in the
water all of this sand was out there
it’s like you can’t even wrap your mind
around it unless I showed you a photo of
it but millions of cubic yards of sand
shifted from out there to this way and
so now it’s got a different shape to it
i mean they wanted to shut down more
than they did so we saved what we could
cuz this is just special that’s why
you’re here a This is cool look at It’s
just ultimate tailgate party zone yeah
my dad said back in the day so many
nights after work or whatever people
would just come out here and have
bonfires and cook you know this is like
in the ‘7s ‘ 80s ’90s and during
graduation they’d come out and have like
a massive bonfire and the whole towns
would get together and stuff it was like
some of my local friends here refer to
it as the Buckton Country Club
only thing you need is a rod and beer
yep
oh wow there’s kind of a little sander
out here i haven’t been out here in a
couple weeks this This like see how
shallow I don’t know if you can see it
on a GoPro but how shallow all that is
like 3 weeks ago it was deep there and
it was shallow over
here and now like it’s already changed
so your island is your island growing or
it’s just changing shifting and changing
you I mean it is eroding like the the
beaches aren’t as wide as they once were
but that’s cuz we built on a barrier
island barrier islands want to shift
they don’t always migrate west like it
you need the sand to be able to flow and
come back but if you build on the edge
then it just kind of like erodess and
washes out oh right right interesting
there’s evidence that the lost colony
was actually here the ones you know from
Mano that got lost they came here and
there’s artifacts that have been dug up
from like thousands of years ago like
this place has been here for forever
because of the way the the offshore
currents are of the Gulf Stream and the
Labrador like it’s not going anywhere if
those currents go away maybe but as long
as those currents are there like this is
going to be here in some fashion
these guys are shark fishing shark
fishing yeah there’s a lot of sharks
that cruise around out here that’s legal
to catch sharks yeah oh look where they
going no way oh no it’s Big Ray oh wow
a very pregnant one yeah that’s a big
one look you see the baby moving you see
that that was cool
you see the baby moving in her belly
that was neat i had a big southern give
birth on You just caught that
you let it go you didn’t want to keep it
no cuz it’s got babies just in general
anyway if it didn’t have babies would
you kept it no no we caught one 10 by 10
before oh wow 10 wide 10 deep i guess
you saw the story of the great white no
you didn’t know a great white was caught
off the beach no first ever when that a
month and a half ago white’s protected
so you got to turn it loose catch and
release the biggest we’ve caught this
week was 94 in and the world Yeah the
world record is uh 7 feet four and four
inches and a eight 225 pounds so that
was bigger you know we were 2 and 12
ines on the world record wow do you live
here oh great do you guys know each
other
okay everyone knows everyone right when
you’re pretty much if you’re here in the
winter what’s that oh dude this is the
This saves you from having to kayak
every bait we hook this to my kayak and
then I kayak out there today it’s not a
big deal but some days you know you have
a four or five foot seat wait you kayak
out there for what take the bait i’ll
I’ll put the bait in the kayak you can’t
toss it with a rod far enough no no
we’ll go hundreds of yards has anyone
else used this out here i’ve never seen
one few people do okay but like that
thing’s like three grand delivered so
the big white shark that we caught that
was a kayak bait we put the bait in the
kay tuna head about the size of a
watermelon kayaked it out dropped it off
i want to see how it stays on there not
even not even
No way when did this come out the Aqua
Cat out at least 10 years probably more
than that okay this is sick
next level fishing
oh that could have
so how far are you putting that thing
out there couple hundred yards probably
that’s crazy
a lot less paddling that was so fast and
it goes a lot faster without a giant
head on it too right so what you got a
button that releases it yeah that’s a
release button and that’s a return home
button and then when you release it this
thing just flops up like this
gotcha if you want put the GoPro on
there send it out drive it around bring
it back
then a shark gets it they don’t have
drones for this do they they do but
you’re not allowed to use them on the
national seashore which is good because
if you
could everyone would be Everybody Yeah
it would be It’ be so annoying yes yep
that’s pretty sick do you guys have a
base here uh Norolk yeah it’s like 3
hours away this is like kind of the wild
west of airspace when these guys get out
here it’s like they kind of just do
whatever because there’s no one around
what are those smaller the small ones
with the twin engines those are P38s
those are like the trainers for the F-18
Super Hornets cuz I’ve seen those guys
flying upside down so low you like the
person yeah
the way the island is now with all these
massive houses and rental properties and
the influx of millions of people every
summer is like this place is wild it
wasn’t really designed for that but like
we as an economy as locals catered to
the tourism now the tourists demand like
they have AC in their 20bedroom home and
home theaters and like all these
amenities that this place can’t like
naturally provide when you move here you
fully know that literally in an hour’s
worth of time you have to get what you
have and get off this island or you’re
going to lose every material thing you
own or at least get it up with
hurricanes well or a title wave or
hurricane yeah but that’s part of the
lore living here i think locals knew and
still know not to live on the ocean side
it’s like you live where it’s safer in
all reality even when you know S turns
wash out or whatever washes out it’s
like a period of time for a couple days
and then it’s back to normal so you guys
aren’t worried about sea levels rising
at all that’s not a concern here so not
not in my lifetime okay say how much is
it rising we saying an inch a year 5 in
a year right what does that mean to this
island yeah well it’s going to keep
bringing sand in whatever the level
whatever the mean tide is right it’s
going to continue to bring sand it’s
going to continue to deposit sand at
some point it’s going to move closer to
the mainland and then it’s going to
reset back out i mean yeah and you’ll
have a big storm that just completely
shifts everything i think that’s like to
his point it’s like it’s not going to go
away it might change it might look
different but the ocean’s going to just
move the sand where it moves the sand
and it’ll it’ll be here during COVID the
island was closed and we realized that
the economy here was doing pretty well
with just the locals with purchasing and
going out to dinner and all that stuff
now that wasn’t for over a year but for
6 months we realized that we don’t need
the tourism as badly as the politicians
in Dare County kind of feel we do don’t
get me wrong a lot of people here our
jobs everybody’s work depends on it to
maintain our standard of living yeah and
I would like everyone that could
experience this and appreciate this to
come to the island but what I don’t want
is people coming here oh we need a
Starbucks we need a McDonald’s we need
you know they come here and they want to
make it where they come from and they
don’t like it there so they come here
kind of thing you know it’s like when
they wanted to do the hotel in Hatteris
it’s like man you can go anywhere else
on the East Coast and sit in a hotel on
the ocean front like you come here to
get away from that so you don’t have you
don’t have any chain anything down here
the only chain we have is Dairy Queen
and Subway subway yeah okay so up north
in Nags Head lot of chains lot of chains
sort of blown up up there sure blown out
blown up however you want to look at it
yes but down here none of that none of
that and I know you’ve been all over the
world i grew up in the Philippines i
lived in Mexico there is no place in the
world I would rather live than where I
live amen to that yep my wife and her
buddy were fishing here and a skull a
head rolled by where do you see that a
skull a skull in 2017 we had an island
out here who was famous called Shelly
Island a dude found a fossilized woolly
mammoth tusk right like
Alex shark no yep i love these big rays
though i didn’t know that
you want another picture
no more splash
just watch the tail is that tail sting
yeah it’s got on it see it that’s pretty
gnarly now yeah it’s got Yeah it’s got
two barbs right there those are real
short ones
so is that a rush doing that
sharks way better
before you guys leave climb on top of my
trucks i’m serious it’s 8 ft right you
will not believe the difference this
place looks like from 8 ft off oh I
believe it he’s just like a boat it’s
like walking up a dune yep yeah standing
in a tower compared on the deck
he said climb up the ladder
this is an
event wow
that was cool appreciate it yeah man
stoked didn’t take too long so guys if
you’re into surfing I didn’t know this
but uh Brett’s a big time surfer and you
got a channel you shredding waves yep
surfing fishing it’s a little bit of
both but most it’s majority surfing so
more local content link down below in
the description brett you’re the man i
appreciate that dude no way I would have
seen that so sick that was like perfect
thanks Fad later have a good one man
all right we’ve reached the far south of
the island here we’re now in the town of
Patterus the end of the road for today
but tomorrow we’re gonna get on this
ferry go to the next island over called
Ochre Coke a place where there are few
people that still speak the Ochre Coke
brogue it’s a very unique dialect that
exists there barely exists there cool
journey today camera didn’t capture it
all
obviously quite a bit of driving uh but
very beautiful part of the country
thanks for coming along until the next
one