Last week I took a trip to Portsmouth Island. This Island is a 20 minute boat trip from Ocracoke Island, NC. The weather was warm and their were no mosquitoes! It was a beautiful day. Portsmouth Island was once a thriving shipping port town with many residents. It is now a ghost town. The last residents left the Island in 1971. The Island is owned by the National Park service.
You can visit the village, the visitors center, post office / general store, the church, the school house, and the life saving station are all open to the public. The village still has many of the original houses.
It is a peaceful place and I can imagine how life was once nice on this barrier Island. The beach is long and wide and mostly empty. Portsmouth Island is a great place for shelling.
If you are interested in discovering Portsmouth Island call Rudy Austin 252-928-4361 or Donald Austin 252-928-5431 and they'll take you out to the Island.
www.PortsmouthNC.com They are native Ocracokers and will also tell you lots of good stories. Austin boat tours leave twice a day from the community docks in Ocracoke, NC. Enjoy this peaceful place!
You can visit the village, the visitors center, post office / general store, the church, the school house, and the life saving station are all open to the public. The village still has many of the original houses.
It is a peaceful place and I can imagine how life was once nice on this barrier Island. The beach is long and wide and mostly empty. Portsmouth Island is a great place for shelling.
If you are interested in discovering Portsmouth Island call Rudy Austin 252-928-4361 or Donald Austin 252-928-5431 and they'll take you out to the Island. www.PortsmouthNC.com They are native Ocracokers and will also tell you lots of good stories. Austin boat tours leave twice a day from the community docks in Ocracoke, NC. Enjoy this peaceful place!
We've been there before...it was really beautiful...as long as the mosquitoes don't carry you away! :)
ReplyDeleteYour blog and your photography (yours, right?) is beautiful. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeletebeautiful pictures! looks really gorgeous there!
ReplyDeleteGreat photographs. Seems to be interesting place to visit.
ReplyDeleteI love Ocracoke Island. I remember riding my bike around the entire island with my little puppy sitting in the basket on my bars. It was wonderful, I hope to visit again someday with my kids!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures....it looks like such a picturesque place.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your new blog!
ReplyDeleteGreat pics!!
Thanks for your generous comment!!! :)
ReplyDeleteYour pictures are gorgeous- love the one with the pink dress- great color contrast
I have so many memories of Ocracoke - some of them I try to remember more than others! =) I hope to visit again really soon!
ReplyDeleteYou know I want to go!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely blog.
ReplyDeletewow everything look so organic, and surreal..these are gorgeous photos!!! thanks so much for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThank you, I needed a vac...love the photos! Have been to wilmington, NC 2 times the beach was breathtaking and people so friendly!
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