It’s an autumn Sunday, the low clouds and overcast skies promise rain. The Roanoke Sound is calm, though, and a light breeze from the northeast doesn’t seem to be disturbing the waters.
Jessica Taylor, executive director of the Outer Banks Center for Dolphin Research and volunteer Barb Clark go about the business of launching the center’s research boat in a practiced, choreographed way. Once underway on the dolphin survey, Taylor mentions that it’s late in the season to see dolphins in the waters of Roanoke Sound, but there may be some changes in the migratory patterns.