Observed on Ocracoke: The Fiddler Crab
Text and Photo by Peter Vankevich
In the late summer and early fall of the year when walking along the marshes such as Molasses Creek...
Spotted On Ocracoke: A Great Shell Collection
Text and photos by Peter Vankevich
There are many reasons to visit the Ocracoke Preservation Society’s David Williams House Museum at 49 Water Plant Rd....
Spotted on Ocracoke: Gulls in the ‘ hood – or maybe...
September 2011
Text and Photos by Peter Vankevich
The Laughing Gull, Larus atricilla, is the most common black-hooded gull that can easily be seen along the coasts...
The history of figs on Ocracoke
Originally published August 2011
By Gael Hawkins
August visitors to Ocracoke are privileged to experience an annual island tradition-the harvesting of Ocracoke figs. For the...
Spotted On Ocracoke: The Hermit Crab
June 2011
Text and Photo by Peter Vankevich
I think this month’s feature is one of the more fascinating creatures one may find on...
Spotted on Ocracoke: To View a Mockingbird
Re
Text and photo by Peter Vankevich
An easily spotted resident of Ocracoke - both in the village and throughout much of the island - is...
Beach walking with Henry David Thoreau: part two
June 2011
By Pat Garber
...It was a very inspiriting sound to walk by, filling the whole air, that of the sea dashing against the land...Henry...
Beach walking with Henry David Thoreau: part one
May 2011
By Pat Garber
The breakers looked like droves of a thousand white horses of Neptune, rushing to the shore, with...
Spotted on Ocracoke: The Great Black-backed Gull
Spotted on Ocracoke: The Great Black-backed Gull
April 2011
Text and Photo by Peter Vankevich
Most of the year –less so in late spring to midsummer-...
Spotted on Ocracoke: Another Glimpse of Winter Light
December 2010
Text and photo by Peter Vankevich
What is spotted this month is not a curious artifact but an impressionistic mood. As Yogi Berra allegedly...