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<\/a><\/p>\nIn April of 1977, while driving to Nags Head, I watched 4 trawlers coming in through the well-marked channel. There was no traffic and I had just gone over the peak of the bridge. I stopped overlooking Bodie Island spit, got out and took one shot with a 400mm lens on a fairly new Nikon F2.<\/p>\n
In January of 1985, we had a severe cold snap. Temperatures were low\u00a0enough to freeze portions of the Pamlico Sound. I was so impressed that I hired a pilot to take me up and shoot the ice flows from above. We ascended to 7,000 feet, and the view was spectacular.<\/p>\n December of that same year, I was shooting a\u00a0story on\u00a0commercial fishing for Outer Banks Magazine<\/strong><\/em>. Arrangements were made for me to spend 3 days on a trawler from Wanchese, where Captain\u00a0Terry Saunders welcomed me aboard the “<\/strong><\/em>Richard Wayne”<\/em><\/strong>. There were 2 days of fair weather, but when a northeaster set in on the third day, the boats decided to come in early. Crossing the bar at the mouth of the inlet was rough, and Captain Stevie Daniels maneuvered “Bailey Boy”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 through, right behind us.<\/p>\n I flew during a northeaster in 1989 and made shots along Hatteras Island. There was no jetty in place at the inlet yet, and the Coast Guard Station was beginning to wash away. At the time, they were abandoning the station and moving to a newly built facility on the north side, next to the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center.<\/p>\n No recollections of Oregon Inlet would be complete without mentioning the October 1990 incident of a dredge taking out 400 feet of Bonner Bridge. I made this shot that\u00a0December riding the ferry across the inlet when repairs were being made.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n