Ocracoke Island Rental House with swimming pool right on Irvin Garrish Highway
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620 Irvin Garrish Highway 1B
Ocracoke, NC
27960
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I grew up the son of an F-150 man who for a few years did the tagalong camper to the beach thing when I was a real little boy. It was my grandparents who started us on that camper thing and the regular destination was Myrtle Beach South Carolina. I absolutely loved Apache Camp Ground as a child. The memories of Go-Carts and Mini-Golf and my bike in the sand are vivid. As my parents marriage deteriorated over the years we did a few vacations to some other destinations with the tag along and this old blue F150 from the year of my birth, a 1978 truck. We did Assateague, Chincoteague, and Cape Hatteras vacations over a few summers. I remember the smell of the fish at Oregon Inlet, the leaded gas 4x4 camper pickups lining the ramp 4 beaches, the go-carts and ATV rides at the now over grow apocalyptic go-cart tracks along RT 12 in Waves, and we stayed at one of the camp grounds just south of there. I have the photos from hang gliding school at Kitty Hawk Kites on my wall still to this day and I remember my little brother who was like two at the time, catching a fish with his bare hands in the freshwater ponds behind the original location of the Cape Hatteras Light House.
It was that trip that was my first outing to Ocracoke Island in the mid 1980’s. The salt spray from the ferry ride is still a taste that brings back memories of that hot ass vinyl truck seat and the inability to drive it out on the beach because it was just a two wheel drive truck. A few years later my parents divorced and the body of that truck was so rusty that my dad had to get a new one. The tagalong camper got sold, and a trip back to the outer banks would not happen for many more years for me.
Fast forward to 2006, and I had been dating my now wife for over a year when we did an oddball trip of sorts to go rafting, and to the beaches, and to a Tennessee Wedding over a period of like 10 days. It was that trip, in the 2005 Lime Green Jeep Wrangler with 2 dogs in tow that my love for Ocracoke was rekindled. We have been back about 15 weeks for vacations since that trip in 2006 and all but three of those weeks has been spent in Boyette Condo 1B. When it was for sale a few years back by the Ocracoke Foundation we passed on the opportunity to buy it then and regret that decision even today as we now own the property simply due to the extra cost we had to pay to get it in 2017 instead of 2013.
So that its, we love Ocracoke. We love all 16 miles of beach and its hard to beat a few miles up from ramp 67 when you’re a mile from the next car on the beach. Our kids love the wading pools near the point, and although I'm a Jeep guy as an adult (my dad’s F150 got stolen just before my 16th birthday and he bought me a $3000 Jeep Comanche Pickup to replace it) I remember my roots, that first trip there, both of my parents when they were still married walking near the jolly roger holding hands, and the fun and exciting time that we had that one evening in that small village. I am hopeful that my own children, and the guests in our condo and their children, will be able to create these same kinds of memories.
