Dumb question.... Do you have to use the new Bridge / Bypass?

Dumb question.... Do you have to use the new Bridge / Bypass?

Yes. RT12 is blocked at north end of Rodanthe. Many people are trying to go north there and need to turn around.

I'm not seeing the correct reflectivity on the striping...

So great! Thanks for the video. Hope it meets all the expectations. I can't wait to travel in person!

I'm not seeing the correct reflectivity on the striping...

Drove the jug handle twice today. Waze has it right.

Fond recollections of Kiting there from 2008-2014. I recall the water being only ~12-30” deep, and there was an old steel barge wreck somewhere around the south end of the bridge if my (questionable) memory serves me correctly. Marked by a couple of stakes back then so we wouldn’t accidentally jump right on top of it. We would actually teach up there in a NE wind using a jet ski when I worked at KHK. I’m figuring the houses locked in by the bridge won’t be of much interest to windsurfing/kiteboarding crowd any more. Oh well, time marches on!

I drove it yesterday and all I could think the whole way is that someone crazy enough could probably jump that bridge with a kiteboard in the right conditions.

Fond recollections of Kiting there from 2008-2014. I recall the water being only ~12-30” deep, and there was an old steel barge wreck somewhere around the south end of the bridge if my (questionable) memory serves me correctly. Marked by a couple of stakes back then so we wouldn’t accidentally jump right on top of it. We would actually teach up there in a NE wind using a jet ski when I worked at KHK. I’m figuring the houses locked in by the bridge won’t be of much interest to windsurfing/kiteboarding crowd any more. Oh well, time marches on!

I drove it yesterday and all I could think the whole way is that someone crazy enough could probably jump that bridge with a kiteboard in the right conditions.

Fond recollections of Kiting there from 2008-2014. I recall the water being only ~12-30” deep, and there was an old steel barge wreck somewhere around the south end of the bridge if my (questionable) memory serves me correctly. Marked by a couple of stakes back then so we wouldn’t accidentally jump right on top of it. We would actually teach up there in a NE wind using a jet ski when I worked at KHK. I’m figuring the houses locked in by the bridge won’t be of much interest to windsurfing/kiteboarding crowd any more. Oh well, time marches on!

The wreck is here. Click to follow link...

The water is very shallow. I kayaked around there last October thinking maybe it would be a nice sheepshead spot once the marine life became established until I realized I could look down and see the bottom... everywhere.

Fond recollections of Kiting there from 2008-2014. I recall the water being only ~12-30” deep, and there was an old steel barge wreck somewhere around the south end of the bridge if my (questionable) memory serves me correctly. Marked by a couple of stakes back then so we wouldn’t accidentally jump right on top of it. We would actually teach up there in a NE wind using a jet ski when I worked at KHK. I’m figuring the houses locked in by the bridge won’t be of much interest to windsurfing/kiteboarding crowd any more. Oh well, time marches on!

Good memory. But the barge is actually a WW2 transport. Here's an old article describing the find.

The bridge spanned the wreck so as not to disturb it. On low tide I can see portions sticking up above the water.

Now that I'm back to our house since the bridge opened I can attest it's noisy. I'm sure, for us, it'll become "white noise" after a while but the houses at the foot of the south end will probably have issues renting at a high rate.

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