We will be camping at Camp Hatteras at Waves on Hatteras Island for the next five nights. The camp spills across both sides of the highway, so that the eastern sites see the ocean (if it weren’t for a prominent sand berm) and the western sites, where we are, face the bay, or as they call it here, the sound. But it is not a peaceful bay; the waters at least on our arrival day are really quite wild, and the winds very strong. Sunsets across the sound are spectacular.
This is another barrier island, stretching for miles north and south and maybe a half-mile wide. Houses with false first floors and two or three stories above seem to dominate, at least in the new construction. Often all this is topped by a deck, sort of a modern widow’s walk, which should be a spectacular spot for watching approaching hurricanes.
In the more natural wildlife refuge strips, the sound side land tapers away into marshes that look similar to the areas just south and west of Imperial Beach. The highway is one lane each way, with a wall of sand on the ocean side partly restrained by nearly buried sand fences. In a couple places road equipment can be seen removing sand drifts from the highway.
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