Sound front, picturesque sunsets, dock, sandy beach, and unobstructed views. Spacious home for families.
Hatteras Water Sports next door. Only 1 mile from REAL Water Sports, the premier kite boarding instruction venue on the planet.
The wind is better on Hatteras Island. Ground obstructions cause friction and slow down lower level wind and make it turbulent, gusty. On Hatteras Island the prevailing wind is southwest in the Summer northeast in the Fall through Spring. The island is so narrow, with so few obstructions that even a northeast wind is smooth and consistent on the Sound. A good southwest breeze in the Summer is astoundingly consistent, with hardly any gusts. The popped out eastward nature of the geography of Hatteras Island, combines with the effect of the Labrador current mixing with the Gulf Stream to create consistently stronger wind on Hatteras Island than anywhere else on the east coast. Just 30 miles to the north in Nags Head, Kitty Hawk, and other parts of the North Beaches, the heat can feel oppressive as the breeze blows from the southwest over the tops of the houses and trees and is not felt by most residents and visitors crowding to the east to get closer to the ocean.
The temperature is better on Hatteras Island. Given its geography, a narrow spit of land deposited in what would otherwise be 15 miles off the North Carolina coast, the house is both cooler in the Summer and warmer in the Winter than its latitude would predict. The cool water of the Atlantic and the Sound in the summer mollifies the heat you might feel just 2 miles inland on the mainland. Lower temperature means lower humidity and the regular breeze further beats the heat. Just as the ocean keeps it cool in the summer it keeps it warm enough in the winter that it hardly ever snows and if it does the flakes on the ground are fleeting. Water sports are no problem in September, and October. Many people kite year round in OBX.