Shelly Island

Shelly Island was a microcosm of the Outer Banks. What we saw occur over a few months, with that little island right off the tip of Hatteras, is taking OBX decades and centuries to accomplish.

Shelly Island was a sandbar, a little dune formed in the water, created by tide, time and sand. It was destroyed the same way.

That pretty much describes what is happening, what has happened and what will always happen to the OBX.

I have not bought in to the global warming, sea level rise theory that so many claim is the cause for OBX to be shifting. Sand, water, wind, current and tide are the forces that created OBX. They are the forces that shift it too.

What it takes in one place, it will give in another.

Nothing disappears, just relocates.

Bill Hitchcock