Getting Here, Getting Around Tips
Tourism
is big business on the Crystal Coast. It represents an estimated 20 percent
of Carteret County’s jobs and a $230 million annual income.
Gulls
following ferries always expect a handout. Ferry officials ask that you feed
them only from the back of the ferry. Human food is not good for sea gulls,
and, besides, your fellow passengers will not appreciate the gull droppings.
Crystal
Coast beaches face south rather than east from the southern point of Core
Banks at Cape Lookout to the west end of Bogue Banks. This rare East Coast
geography means that the sun rises and sets over the ocean here, and the
north wind calms the sea close to the beaches.