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Originally Posted by williecoyote
I have driven on the beach here at the Outer Banks many times. There is nothing like just cruising out to the inlet, and having lunch while watching the birds, and boats, and smelling the salt air.
Twenty years ago, you only saw fishermen on the beach. If you saw a female in a bathing suit, everybody stared.
Now that everyone has an SUV, it's all families enjoying the sun. Much too risky to cast a hook into the water for fear of hooking someone.
As we speak, the government is trying to close our beaches to motor vehicles.
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That's sad
. I remember the Outer Banks from the 60s when it was VERY remote, and took real effort to get there...you wouldn't see a single person, and if you did, it was someone fishing. I went back about 10 years ago (after Labor Day, so offseason), and was so disgusted with "the development" that I'll likely never go back. I see folks driving around with OBX stickers on their SUVs and cringe...they don't realize that paradise has been replaced with "progress", and it's never coming back. Once they built the bridges (replacing the ferrys) and opened up the easy access to folks from VA/DC, it was inevitiable imo...