Do the Ocracoke.....

Crossing the only road on Ocracoke

There's no bridge at the end of Hatteras Island so we made the educated decision to take the free 40 minute car ferry to Ocracoke Island on our continuing journey south down North Carolina's Outer Banks. It was a lovely calm crossing accompanied by glorious hot sunshine, pelicans swooping across the deck, a pod of porpoises and some passengers that left me pondering a nagging question. Is it just the weight of the vehicles or are the passegers taken into consideration too? Everything was just fine though as we docked at Ocracoke, a 12 mile strip of sand just a few hundred metres wide. The only town is at the southernmost point which is small with a Caribbean feel and was our home for the night. More intriguing American place names as we checked into the Sand Dollar Motel on the corner of Nubbins Ridge Road, next to the Topless Oyster Bar which was a disappointment to find only the oysters were topless. We ate a grilled mahi-mahi and Po'Boy (pulled pork) sandwich washed down with a pint of Smuttynose Old Brown Dog.