Outer Banks Pelagic - 2/26/23, Fulmars, Alcids & Cetaceans
A week after a 12-hour pelagic out of Cape May, my friend Jason and I took the seven-plus hour drive to North Carolina’s Outer Banks for a one day pelagic. The company there is a leader of east coast pelagics, attracting participants from around the world. Captain Brian normally operates his Stormy Petrel II vessel out of Hatteras during the spring and summer. This trip ran out of Oregon Inlet in Nags Head, shortening our commute by better than an hour each way. The drive took us through iconic Outer Banks towns like Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills. Many think of Kitty Hawk as the place where Orville and Wilbur Wright made aviation history with the first flight, but that actually occurred in neighboring Kill Devil Hills. My first thoughts of the latter location are where the Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore brought live updates of approaching hurricanes. The Wright Brothers National Memorial, N. Croatan Highway in Kill Devil Hills, NC. © S. Weiss Our trip brought us to th