Let's get to the final area of our Outer Banks tour....the southern beaches or often called Hatteras Island.
About 75% of Hatteras Island is undeveloped. Much of the land is water, natural beaches, sand dunes, thick maritime forests, marshlands, etc. If you love outdoors, what a great place. This area just has a different look and feel to the northern beaches. Both have a lot to offer and our great places to visit.
Hatteras Island is home to seven small, unincorporated communities, each of them unique in character. The villages are spaced out along Highway 12, which is the main road for this entire area.
In an earlier post after visiting Nags Head, we headed towards Roanoke Island and covered a handful of stations in that area. Let's get back to Nags Head and head in the other direction - south on Highway 12.
Maybe it is just me or when I visited, but finding people at these southern stations can be a realchallenge. However, several years ago I had one of those great trips where I was able to get someone to the station, even though the majority of the stations were closed up tight. For example, I found the chief having lunch at a local restaurant. Afterwards, he went with me to the station and moved out all of the equipment. Everybody knows everybody. In several situations, the fishing pier guy called someone to meet us. Dare County communications even dropped "tones" for several stations when nobody was there - "Attention all members of Station XX, you have a visitor at your station. Driver needed for photographs". In one day, I managed to photograph just about every apparatus on the Southern Shore of the Outer Banks. It was one of my most enjoyable and memorable times enjoying the hobby and probably why I love to go back.
Leaving Nags Head and heading south on Highway 12, you will pass through the beautiful Oregon Inlet and it brings you to the village of Rodanthe. This area is also called Chicamacomico Banks, and the FD goes by that name (not sure why the two names). So I don't have to type Chicamacomico Banks numerous times, we will refer to Chicamacomico Banks as "CB".
CB is Station 50 in Dare County (they have a very strange station number system in that county). CB has two buildings that make up their station.
Here is the house for the two largest trucks - note the statue in the front. I was told that this was donated to the FD.
Mike Sanders
Ashburn, VA
About 75% of Hatteras Island is undeveloped. Much of the land is water, natural beaches, sand dunes, thick maritime forests, marshlands, etc. If you love outdoors, what a great place. This area just has a different look and feel to the northern beaches. Both have a lot to offer and our great places to visit.
Hatteras Island is home to seven small, unincorporated communities, each of them unique in character. The villages are spaced out along Highway 12, which is the main road for this entire area.
In an earlier post after visiting Nags Head, we headed towards Roanoke Island and covered a handful of stations in that area. Let's get back to Nags Head and head in the other direction - south on Highway 12.
Maybe it is just me or when I visited, but finding people at these southern stations can be a realchallenge. However, several years ago I had one of those great trips where I was able to get someone to the station, even though the majority of the stations were closed up tight. For example, I found the chief having lunch at a local restaurant. Afterwards, he went with me to the station and moved out all of the equipment. Everybody knows everybody. In several situations, the fishing pier guy called someone to meet us. Dare County communications even dropped "tones" for several stations when nobody was there - "Attention all members of Station XX, you have a visitor at your station. Driver needed for photographs". In one day, I managed to photograph just about every apparatus on the Southern Shore of the Outer Banks. It was one of my most enjoyable and memorable times enjoying the hobby and probably why I love to go back.
Leaving Nags Head and heading south on Highway 12, you will pass through the beautiful Oregon Inlet and it brings you to the village of Rodanthe. This area is also called Chicamacomico Banks, and the FD goes by that name (not sure why the two names). So I don't have to type Chicamacomico Banks numerous times, we will refer to Chicamacomico Banks as "CB".
CB is Station 50 in Dare County (they have a very strange station number system in that county). CB has two buildings that make up their station.
Here is the house for the two largest trucks - note the statue in the front. I was told that this was donated to the FD.
Mike Sanders
Ashburn, VA
Mike Sanders
Winchester, VA
Winchester, VA
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