Tagged: Currituck

Big Curri-Shuck a Big Good Time

It would be difficult to find a better way to spend the Saturday after Thanksgiving than shucking oysters, sipping wine and beer and enjoying a spectacular day with friends at Sanctuary Vineyards’ annual Big Curri-Shuck....

Elan Vacations Breaks Ground for University Park

By Kip Tabb –  Norman Bibeau, President and CEO of Elan Vacations, waited a long time for yesterday’s University Park groundbreaking ceremony in Powell’s Point. Originally scheduled to move forward in the spring, the...

Picking strawberries on a sunny spring day at the Malco's strawberry field.

Strawberry Picking

By Kip Tabb –  There is something about picking your own strawberries on a glorious spring day that reminds us that there is so much right in the world. Not that picking strawberries can...

Corolla Wild Horses in the surf.

Wild Horse Sense

By Kip Tabb –  All Photos courtesy Corolla Wild Horse Fund At one time, almost every barrier island from Virginia and south had a herd of wild horses that had escaped from ships of...

Manteo Courthouse with belfry. Image from Manteo Preservation Trust page.

Outer Banks Towns Report

By Kip Tabb –  A new year and there’s already a lot happening in the towns and villages of the Outer Banks. Up in Corolla, the Currituck County Board of Commissioners approved plans for...

South of the Border (Station)

By Melissa Cox Caratoke Highway, the road that runs through mainland Currituck, is where the “Are We There Yets” reach their peak. You’re almost at the Outer Banks beach, you’ve seen numerous exciting billboards,...

A Jewel of an Island

By Kip Tabb –  Photos by CHELLEshots, Michelle Conner –   From there, the distance to Monkey Island is four miles, and the ride normally took about twenty minutes. We saw large rafts of...

Legends in the Dark

By Jesse Fernandez –  “Legends in the Dark” was a name given to an 8′ 6” mini-noserider that I built in January of this year. I don’t usually give names to boards that I...