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Cape Crusading

If you’re heading to Cape Hatteras, check out these must-stop destinations for siteseeing, shopping, and fresh North Carolina seafood.

by: Laura Daily, from: AARP The Magazine, November 2007

The waters off Cape Hatteras may not be hospitable for sea captains—some 2,000 shipwrecks are recorded off her coastline—but these days the Outer Banks of North Carolina, a chain of barrier islands, is as welcoming as any top vacation spot. The cape itself, not to be confused with Hatteras Village or Hatteras Island, is a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic Ocean; it’s where you’ll find the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, as well as seaside villages and two-lane State Route 12, better known as the Beach Road. … Back to Article

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