Monday, May 18, 2009

Save money at the Outer banks, a list of fun, free/inexpensive activities to do at the OBX!


21 Free Outer Banks Activities for you and your Family

With the economy being the way it is, I complied this list to help out. After all, you don’t need to spend a lot of money to have fun at the Outer Banks.

1. Bike around town

2. Swim

3. Beach comb

4. Sunbathe

5. People watch

6. Feed the gulls

7. Go ghost crabbing

9. Climb Jockey’s Ridge

10. Build a sandcastle

11. Visit one or all of the four lighthouses

12. Take the ferry to Ocracoke (don’t forget bread for gulls. They’re such fun to feed from the ferry.)

13. Watch the fisherman bring in the day’s catch at the Oregon inlet fishing center or Pirates Cove

14. Have a picnic on the grounds of the Whalehead club

15. Go crabbing (chicken necks make great bait)

16. Visit the wildlife education center in Corolla

17. Take a stroll at Duck’s new park, complete with playground and sound boardwalk

18. Fly a kite off jockey’s ridge

19. Boogie board or body surf in the shore break


20. Climb the Wright Brothers Memorial

21. Take a road trip to Rodanthe and visit Serendipity, the house in Rodanthe Nights


(view the trailer, the house is real)



10 inexpensive things to do at the Outer Banks


1. Climb one of the lighthouses (Currituck and Cape Hatteras are both open for climbing this year) http://www.outer-banks.com/lighthouses.asp

2. Visit the Whalehead club
http://www.whaleheadclub.com/

3. Tour the Chicamacamico lifesaving station
http://www.chicamacomico.net/

4. Go fishing. There is a small fee for the license.
http://www.ncwildlife.com/

5. Visit festival park
http://www.roanokeisland.com/

6. Visit the Elizabethan Gardens
http://www.elizabethangardens.org/

7. Experience a Red Wolf Howling
http://www.redwolves.com/howling_regis/index.html

8. Visit the Wright Brothers Memorial Museum
http://www.nps.gov/wrbr

9. Bring home souvenirs to show off where you’ve been



10. Visit the Roanoke Island aquarium http://www.ncaquariums.com/roanoke-island
(Be sure to check out this great video of the Roanoke Island aquarium )




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