Catch A Wave OBX

08/08/2024

08/08/2024

08/05/2024

Important info!

We are hoping the forecasted storm will dissipate. However, this information is still good to know as our weather can change rapidly... Here is a link to the Currituck Alert system: https://currituckcountync.gov/communications/currituck-alert/ and 4 weather stations in Currituck that can give you real-time weather info: https://currituck.weatherstem.com/ Also, here are some weather safety rules from the National Weather Service: https://www.weather.gov/lmk/weathersafetyrules If you have an emergency during your stay in our area, please dial 911. ,

06/30/2024

So amazing

06/24/2024

YOU can help the beautiful Sea Turtles — please!!!
Please share!!!

06/21/2024

So adorable when they used to know how to get into food lion!

06/20/2024

Sunrise always suprises!

Journey to Sunrise 🌞

06/11/2024

Grave Digger 2 crossing the Currituck Sound in 1994.

06/10/2024

Catch A Wave OBX still has a few spots left! Message me if you want to see
Magical sunrises and sunsets, dip your toes in the warm Atlantic, and too visit all the wonders of the OBX.

"When's the best time to see horses?"

All of our tours are set at optimal times throughout the day. And while there is never a guarantee for horse sightings, our tour guides are equipped with years of experience, equine and OBX knowledge and consistent communication with one another, and will do everything within their power to create the ultimate "Wild Horse Adventure Tour" for you and your group.

This beautiful silhouette was recently captured during one of our twilight tours.

📸 credits (and thanks!) to Debbie Businger

06/09/2024

Great ideas for your vacation!

06/01/2024

Nice place for sunset

We are honored and beyond thrilled to be featured in the summer issue of . Our stellar whisky selection and stunning sound-front location earned us a spot in their roundup of waterfront destinations for the whisky lover. If that’s you, you’re gonna want to add a stop at The Village to your summer plans. Cheers!
Many thanks to friends and family for joining us for an impromptu photo shoot with the talented Meredith Snider who captured the scene perfectly. 🥃 🌅

05/29/2024

When it looks like this hide!

A look at the tornado warned storm Mondy as it rolled into Grandy in southern Currituck. Pic from Ronda Ross.

05/25/2024

As we head into the holiday weekend, a reminder to please celebrate safely! Keep your distance from the horses - 50ft at minimum and remember that apples, carrots, or “treats” of any kind can be deadly. Drive cautiously and please air down your tires so the beach and sand roads aren’t damaged. Thank you for helping us protect the horses and their habitat while you are here visiting! 🏖️

www.corollawildhorses.org

01/19/2024

If your in OBX head on over!

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11/21/2023

Dare Arts exhibit harkens back to a simpler era By Mary Ellen Riddle | Outer Banks Voice Artwork of vintage Southern Shores Flat Top cottages cover the wooden walls of the old courthouse in the dow…

11/07/2023

Had to share this interesting historical article of the Whalehead Club. The Club and Currituck Light house and the original village of Corolla are just a little drive north of . We take all of our guests there to walk the grounds, climb the lighthouse, and especially to see the sunset over the sound.

THE WHALEHEAD CLUB: ONLY A MEMORY

On chill November and December evenings, hunters relaxed over a round of drinks as they sat before a fire raging in the fireplace at any one of a number of clubhouses around Currituck Sound and its Back Bay. Invariably they talked of guns and ammunition, discussing the merits and failings of different brands. They told tales of fine shooting and chided the unfortunate hunter who happened to miss a shot.

Why were men, predominantly wealthy northern businessmen, drawn as if by a magnet to the marshes of Currituck? Carl White, former superintendent of Pine Island Club since 1935, explained, "Men don't discuss business or politics when they come down here; they want to get away from that. When a man is out in a duck blind, there is always something to look for.... what kind of duck will come next. It keeps the mind occupied away from business matters."

In the early years of hunting clubs, they were more eager. "They didn't think there was any limit to the waterfowl population," White said. Early records at Pine Island show 300 to 400 geese killed in a season. By the 1970s the records reveal that the number of geese shot had dropped to 25 to 30 a season.

Even with the conservation measures taken, the goose population in Currituck is not today what it was in the early years of the Twentieth century. The attitude of conservation that has grown among hunters, as well as an increase in affluence, are factors which may have contributed to the decline of the great membership clubs.

Perhaps the greatest of these clubs was the Whalehead Club, in the remote seaside hamlet of Corolla. Edward C. Knight, Jr. was a member of the old Lighthouse Club located on the same property as the Whalehead mansion today. Knight married, and his young bride, wishing to hunt with her husband, induced him to purchase the property.

Women were excluded from participation in the old membership clubs. And so, he built the Whalehead mansion, so large that it could sleep 400 men during World War II, in the 1920s at a cost of $383,000. The Whalehead Club, gabled and magnificent, stands on a parcel of land that was once encircled by a moat. A small harbor and elaborate boathouse remain at the entrance to the property which could only be reached by boat across Currituck Sound, or by a precarious beach route.

When Knight died his heirs were not interested in the secluded palace, and quickly disposed of it to Ray Adams of Washington, D. C., for $25,000. Adams received $30,000 for the art objects alone found in the mansion. For a while, Whalehead was an exclusive hunting and fishing club.

During World War II, the property was leased by the Coast Guard as a transient station for men and materials. The Coast Guard painted all the mahogany paneling, and almost everything else, battleship gray and white.

During the summers of 1959 and '60, Whalehead became the Corolla Academy for boys. The house stood empty until 1962, when it was used as a rocket fuel testing station during the height of the "space race" and the "cold war." Again it went vacant. After over 20 years of abandonment the house was bought by Currituck County in 1992 to be restored back to its original state.

Today, the house is fully restored and now acts as a historic home for the public. Like most of its sister hunting lodges, its past as a gathering point for hunters remains only a memory.

~ adapted from a 1970s article by Hilda Scull

10/03/2023

Sunset tonight!

09/23/2023

🤯King Neptune Statue (Virginia Beach) Paul Dipasquale sculptor

09/22/2023

Last night's sunset pics! Every one called ot a hamburger.

09/13/2023

Todays Drink Specials
Plum pineapple

Mango cantaloupe

Crush or margarita 🔥

09/13/2023

Book your stay at and see Dash!

09/12/2023

Bj Neal & Sarah Brown our real estate agents visiting after remodeling.

09/12/2023

A beautiful Pea Island! And yes, we saw a group of flamingo’s!! 🦩 Can honestly say we see something different every flight!

09/05/2023

Saw this nest whike on my walk today. Praying for these little turtles to be as this nest is so close to the surf.

08/06/2023

Two years ago today my friends Tori Barr Cepak and Marti Blaw bought a beautiful Mermaid weather vane!
Mermaids rule!

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