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Bathing, surfing, water ski? ing and boating, shell collecting, beach combing, and hunting are other pastimes. Lodgings, stores, and restate rants are provided in villages like Hatteras, Rodanthe, Salvq, Wave, Frisco, and the tiny port of Ocracoke with its nearly landlocked harbor, Silver Lake.'. The- national seashore, open all year, has camp grounds and beach shelters, visitors’ centers, and a maritime museum.
Rich in History
Maritime history is an integral part of Hatteras’ interest to visitors. Diamond Shoals, where warm Gulf Stream wa ters collide turbulently with cold remnants of the Arctic Current, is known as the Grave yard of the Atlantic. > The region has claimed some 2,200 ships.
During World War II,German submarines haunted the waiters off Hatteras and Cape Lookout in a stealthy war against convoys gathering for the crossing to Europe or Africa. In 1943, 81 vessels were sunk off the North Car olina coast. The area came to be known to merchant seamen as “Torpedo Junction.
Hulks of old wrecks still peek through the sand. Driftwood is plentiful.
Edward Teach, the pirate known asBlackbeard,maintained a rendezvous on Ocracoke, sallying forth to plunder shipping along the coast* Teach’s Hole , on Pamlico Sound, is a part of local folklore.
Teach himself was killed in Ocracoke in 1718 while resisting capture by a Virginia expedition led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard. Tradition holds that the tough old buccaneer suffered 20 saber cuts and five pistol wounds before succumbing.
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