The Outer Banks 2008 Official Travel Guide - (Page 47) OUTER BANKS ACTIVITIES & ADVENTURES Kayaking and Canoeing: Easy to learn, kayaking and canoeing offer visitors a relatively affordable way to tour the area’s many unchartered waterways and salt marshes. Our shallow sound waters are ideal for sports. Experience sights and sounds you’d miss on shore. Adventurers can ride the surf of the Atlantic Ocean or paddle past the breakers and glide alongside a pod of dolphins. For the novice, you can glide through the salt marshes, explore the tiny uninhabited islands, or take a historical trip around Roanoke Island. Outfitters offer rentals, instruction and guided ecotours. PUBLIC KAYAK LAUNCH SITES: • Kitty Hawk – Ramp at the end of Bob Perry Road • Kill Devil Hills – Bay Drive Ramp at Dock Street – Parking Area at Second Bridge on Colington Island • Nags Head – Behind Jockey’s Ridge State Park. (Turn west at Nags Head Church. Follow to end of road) – Town of Nags Head, Public Sound Access - Harvey Estuary • Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge – Check with refuge visitor’s center for best launching • Manteo – Manteo/Nags Head Causeway, foot of the Washington Baum Bridge – Foot of the bridge leading over to Roanoke Island Festival Park • Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge – Milltail Creek and Sawyer Lake marked kayak trails (Trail map available) • Dare County Beaches –Utilize any public beach access for ocean kayaking opportunities 47
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