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There is equally exciting, good news of historic restoration in the Cape Lookout National Seashore. This national seashore is much newer, somewhat smaller, and much less accessible. Established in 1966, it extends for 56 miles from Ocracoke Inlet to Beaufort Inlet, (near Morehead City). It is comprised of only three groups of islands: North Core Banks, South Core Banks and Shackleford Banks. There is only one town – village really, Portsmouth – on the entire seashore, and it is deserted. There are no paved roads on the seashore. It can only be reached by boat, public or private. Interestingly, the National Park Visitor Center is located on Harker’s Island, just east of Morehead City/Beaufort. While
Savannah Ryburn holds a juvenile blacktip shark during her fieldwork in the Galapagos. Photo: Contributed
Before “Jaws” with its depiction of a giant, vengeful, man-eating creature of the deep; before Shark Week, Discovery Channels’ eight-day ode to all things sharks; and well before the over-the-top gratuitous sci-fi series “Sharknado” films, there was, just off the coast of North Carolina, “shark survey.”
Not as glamorous, perhaps, as the mindless entertainment evoked from creative minds the likes of Steven Spielberg, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City has achieved in the research world a treasure trove of data about shark species caught off the coastal waters of North Carolina.
Waterways around Harkers Island and the channel from Harkers Island to Cape Lookout are shown in Army Corps of Engineers surveys overlaid Google Earth imagery provided by Carteret County’s Shoreline Protection Office. Map: Google et al.
CARTERET COUNTY Boaters unfamiliar with the waters around Harkers Island and Cape Lookout National Seashore can quickly get into a lot of trouble, and that’s happening more and more.
The risk of running aground near Cape Lookout is nothing new and even seasoned skippers have discovered the perils.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. Sea monsters do exist. Just ask Jennifer Cameron.
On April 16, the Stuart, Florida, angler caught the largest swordfish of her fishing career, weighing in a giant that tipped the scales at 436 pounds.
Catching a nearly quarter-ton brute like a swordfish is a challenge in and of itself. Doing so while struggling with a 102-degree temperature is something else completely. I wasn t feeling that good that day, a day after I received my second Moderna vaccination for COVID-19, she told TCPalm | Treasure Coast Newspapers, part of the USA TODAY Network. But we needed to catch a fish, so I went along. After we boated it, I could feel my fever, went into the cabin and wrapped up in a blanket and slept on the boat ride all the way back into the marina.