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Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_15 (find matches)
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Publisher: (Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina
Digitizing Sponsor: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

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The Alger G. WMisTishing Camps M Core Banks are within walking distance of the Atlantic Ocean. A h a bluish-black storm cloud moves over the sky, Capt. Ronnie Willis steers a small white ferry toward "God's country." "You can't find any prettier place than Core Banks," says Willis, co-owner of Alger G.Willis Fishing Camps. "The ocean is the best part." Willis is the third generation of his family to take fishers and nature lovers on a ferry from Davis across Core Sound to the pristine and remote beaches along the southern shore of Core Banks or Cape Lookout National Seashore. Protected and maintained by the National Park Service, Core Banks is uninhabited except for "people who mostly come to the Banks to fish and get away from the rat race of the city," Willis explains. As soon as the ferry reaches the dock, visitors begin unloading their trucks and sport utility vehicles. First, a red 4x4, loaded with more than a dozen coolers on the back and fishing rods across the front, heads down the plank. An old white pickup truck and red and black sport utility vehicles follow. The vehicles head down a sandy road toward the beaches of the southern end of Core Banks. They will find almost complete silence except for the crashing of waves and the zing of fishing rods. A few yards away from the beach, a bobwhite whistles above a rustic wooden cabin that is part of the Willis fish camps, the only accommodations on the island's southern end. On northern Core Banks or Portsmouth Island, people also can stay at Morris Marine Kabin Kamps. Continued COASTWATCH 7

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