Should You Take an RV on A Ferry in the Outer Banks of NC?
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- Taking an RV that you live in full-time on a ferry may or may not be a bad idea. We give it a try from Cape Hatteras, NC to Ocracoke Island. It's certainly a journey.
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Season 26, Episode 14
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:15 - Cape Hatteras Light Station
01:48 - Ocracoke Island Ferry
12:15 - Ocracoke Campground
14:25 - Downtown Ocracoke, NC
16:45 - Bikes and bugs on the beach
21:21 - A real day-in-the-life RVing in the rain
23:45 - Campfire on the beach
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OMG HYSTERICAL 😂😂😂 THE THREE HOUR TOUR ! Love JJ with no shoes, one of ours always lost his shoes 🤦♀️ he’s a doctor now so relax, there’s hope 🙏🏼
Your kids are so lucky to have these adventures.
Thank you for coming to our beautiful coast. We have lived in NC all our lives. We really like that Celebrity Full Time Rvers come to our coast. I wish we could meet yall. Safe travels.
When were you all there? My daughter and I went down there on 19 September and stayed at the campground next-door to where y’all stayed in Rodanthe, but in their condos. I wish you had shown the town of Buxton where the lighthouse is with schools, the ballfield, and especially Connor’s grocery store. When we rode the ferry, it took us over two hours and we thought that was long. I have been riding that ferry for 58 years and never have I seen a dolphin. How fortunate Y’all were. Ocracoke is a really special island.
I always leave a camp site with the fresh water full you never know when you need to boondock!
For water refills: I will take a cooler and fill it at a water spicket while in the bed of the truck. Then I have a hose I connect to my water pump. And reverse the hose from the tank from feed to fill. And pump out the cooler into my tank.
Or you can put a hose on the drain of the cooler and gravity feed your tank fill port(very slow)(height helps).
Do be careful with the ebike batteries and salt water. After hurricane Ian, tesla car batteries were catching on fire.
I love the NC beaches, small , no crowds.
A campfire at the beach is the best!!❤❤❤❤
We always went to the Outer Banks when we went on vacation and the bugs were ALWAYS an issue. Different season, different bugs. I guess thats part of the price for the adventure and beauty...Happy you're loving the beach.
I Love how Marissa is like OVERTHINK EVERYTHING what's happening to the boat. Nathan...HA HA HA HA HAAA whatever LOL You guys are just so sweet.
J.J. and Hensley are getting so big
Remember when they were both just babys.You And Nathan have a wonderful family. God bless you guys.
I love Ocracoke Island, laid back atmosphere, no chain businesses, great seafood and the National Seashore. My last trip was for the last week in October. FYI, not many people know but there is a dump station and potable water across the road from the campground, look for the parking lot to the trail head. Thanks for sharing your journey.
my favorite place I ever visited and I've been many places around the country and beyond
We went in september
Okracoke is a one of a kind destination! Beautiful place!
We. took our 2021 Ram 2500 and 2023 Bigfoot 25 RQ on that ferry,what a trip. Enjoyed Ocracoke, will be back.
Omgosh 😅I would of been so scared on that ferry. That’s nuts. Love y’all
Thank y’all for sharing your adventures with us and being so genuine in them. We all love you guys!!!!!
Thanks so much
Looks like you guys had a good time. I love being in an RV when it rains. The harder the better. Sitting at the widow listening to the rain on the roof is great. Of course, although kids are great, you probably don’t get the quiet relaxing time to enjoy the sound of the rain.
Marissa: "one thing this way of life has taught me is to go with the flow"
Coast guard shows up: "are we SINKIN?"
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We live in eastern NC and have made the trip to Ocracoke, we love the Outer Banks. We've made the ferry ride over, but never with a RV!
I forgot to fill my onboard water tank one time when I was leaving the campground. Luckily I called from a nearby Walmart and they let me come back into the campground to get my water. Thank goodness. I alway leave with a full 50 gal of water on board as I boondock for a week before going into another or the same campground so I need it.
I lived in Virginia for years so went to OBX many times. Next time you come down from Virgina and go through Currituck County, you might like to stop in Grandy, Walnut Island and visit Barry's Place.for great food and located right on the Sound. I is right on the way to the Wright Bridge to OBX.
Love your adventures. Been following you for years. 91 years old Solo Rver in a 28' Monaco TREK 26HM 2016 Class A Motohome full time still.
Spectacular… Thank you for sharing.
Wanted to let you know that I was wearing my cap as we hiked up half dome in Yosemite this weekend and at the very top someone said to me oh yeah, you watch less junk more journey… Yes I do and they said love the hat and I said log on and order yourself one, and they have interchangeable patches for the top of the cap. Your influence and notoriety are widen far throughout this country… Thank you again for sharing and stay safe and well.
That is awesome! Love this. Thank you for sharing.
Glad y'all are had fun on the OBX. Ocracoke is a beautiful place.
Awesome day, Awesome view, awesome fun!! Thanks for taking us along✝️🚍😁💖
Love your adventures. I agree as long as there is coffee im there. Stay safe love watching.
Thanks, you too!
JEALOUS!!!!! Enjoy the road and stay safe.
If I don’t get to see it next week I wish you all a beautiful Thanksgiving and also great holidays bring me joy with every moment you share
Thank you so much.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards 😋
This episode made me miss our days in the trailer so much! Enjoy every minute!
Thanks so much!
Love this video. Can’t wait to see more
As us boaters say, “you haven’t been around if you haven’t been aground”! 😂
Oh my way to much fun!! I absolutely love you guys
The only thing I can think of as a reminder to do something is set it in your calendar app. In mine I can set whatever date I need to do something, I can set it to alert however far in advance I need to know about it and of course be notified. Figure out how long you need to get to a place to get water and whatever else you need time for. You could even give it it’s own ringtone. For water you can do “Mac the Knife.” There’s a mention of sharks in the Oldie but Goodie and sharks live in water!! Or even the Theme from Jaws!”
We were there in September, loved it! We used a 60 gallon, aqua tank, water, bladder and a 12 V pump for freshwater
Always a joy following you guys, glad you made the Ferry crossing safely, and the beach looked beautiful topped with a campfire and treats. ❤❤🇬🇧
Thanks for watching!
It is so funny watching this while we are camping here now! It’s off season, so we drove straight onto ferries, we had lighthouses and beaches to ourselves. They were all closed for climbing, but seeing yalls crowds, I don’t mind that or the cold!
A song 🎵 came to mind when you were stranded on Ferry. Seven stranded castaways.. Here on Gillians Isle..m🤣
New meaning to "UP IN MY BUSINESS" LOL
Fun video. You all did good. Blessings
This was great! You always bring a smile to my face ☺️❤️
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Thanks for taking us on your journey! Laughed so hard.
I love this. Just so cool to imagine your home floating down the river. I could live on a boat. Also thank you for always showing the Good, Bad and The Awesome !!
This looks so incredible!! Thanks so much for sharing!
Looks like a beautiful trip. Sometimes mishaps do happen on travels. Wishing you all a blessed Thanksgiving week.
This video was so awesome. Some day I would love to go were you are. Sending much love and prayers for your family
You guys, I love watching your videos. Keep the journeys coming. I love watching them you are my travels right now. Love you guys
Aww thank you!
glad you made it.... we took the ferry over with our camper van, it died at the top of the ramp and had to be pushed off the ferry and we spent over 24 hours on the side of the road right at the ferry landing, waiting on AAA to send someone to get us... it is nice to have the ability to "camp" anywhere...stay safe, Tim and Cat
O M G what an experience. You were in a camper/RV--You had AAA! Geez 24?
I’m so close to finally getting on the road. See ya out there!
I cannot wait to see my living room on the ocean! Thank you for that camera shot!
Yah! It’s a cool experience.
October is my favorite time of the year to go to Ocracoke, less people and still nice weather.
That looked like an interesting adventure. O o O o.... Have fun and be safe!
Thank you! Will do!
I enjoy watching the show, so I hate to say this, but some of the thumbs are really cringe, like this one. You are better than that, no need for overly dramatic thumbnails. Just put a thumb that is tied for the content shown.
Best of luck :)
Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate that. We are not trying to be “cringy”, we are just trying to have fun. Sorry it comes off that way. Best wishes to you as well ❤️
I drove up to the water when I was there with my camper!
Love this video. We had to wait 3 hours to go over to Ocracoke. Fun little town
We toured painted rocks this fall. On a tour boat though. And Whitefish light house. 😊 Ferries are fun.
So cool!
Very much enjoyed your adventure! Great content! 🖖🏻😘👍🏻🙏🏻
I love the OBX!!! It's absolutely beautiful there. We live about 90 minutes away and don't go nearly enough. Your trip looks great!
Oh wow! What a great life you all are living.
We are having a blast!
So glad you guys made it there. I use to fly over the Outerbanks when I was stationed in NC. I miss the Outerbanks. Oh no, you forgot the water. Yeah, I might have done that couple of times.
We have taken our 5th wheel toyhauler on ferries. I know the look you are talking about that people give us. 😂
I've made the longer ferry trip with a "lesser than desirable camper." I hope you found, as our family did, the feeling of endurance in hindsight. Yes the rain welcomed us. Along with the bugs and ghost crabs oh!!! And the Nor'easter(tiny hurricane). But this is why folks like you and I, choose this path. And drag our kids along. Taking the same trip thru the jersey turnpike, if there is one,( I might have made that up, I don't visit NJ) is just as challenging with no awesome story to tell. The ferry system to Hatteras to Ocracoke to Swan Quarter to Cedar Island... Are all amazing and a trip worth taking. Not many stores, fewer gas stations, but untouched shores and waterways to learn about. You will notice a church of some denomination, at least every 7 miles by land.
Its up to you to understand the culture here.
Its made of nothing but LIGHT.
We carry 300' of hose to fill the water tank for those pesky sites with no services. Sometime we carry a fresh water tank from a Jayco TT that a tornado tossed and a fountain pump to transfer the water to the 5er. There are many Federal camp grounds in NC where we live and most only have electric. Love the channel.
I lived in Rodanthe for 6 years and the Outer Banks beaches are the best and even though tourists invade during the summer months the beach is less crowded.
It’s really a wonderful place to visit!
GLAD YOU MADE IT.... FOS WENT HERE.... HAPPY THANKSGIVING GOD BLESS
Same to you!
Thanks for sharing your adventures! We camped at Cedar Island and went by ferry to Okracoke (leaving our camper on Cedar Island. It was such a sweet little island and my husband and I always thought it would be nice to camp on the island. So the information about the campground is valuable! Fill the water tanks!!! lol
Beautiful videos. Welcome to North Carolina, hope you enjoyed it. I live in the center of the state near Hillsborough, NC and have been keeping up with you all for a while and so glad y'all made it to our beaches. If you are back on our coast again, check out the southern most Outer Bank, Bogue Inlet, the Crystal Coast of NC. You get sunrise and sunset because it sits east to west instead of north to south like most islands. My family has vacationed there my whole life. Unfortunately I think the only rentable campground is Holiday Trav-l park which is a little pricey. On down highway 17 is Bear Island where you take a pontoon boat ferry over to an uninhabited island to have fun, Shackleford Banks in back up the northern end of Carteret County, you can day people ferries over to Shackleford Banks for awesome fishing and shelling, etc from Beaufort's waterfront. Beaufort is beautiful with all of its historic homes and Pirate tales. Ft Macon is at the end of Bogue Inlet, Robert E Lee was the engineer that designed it back in the day(before he was a General in the Confederate Army he was an Engineer with the US Army). They sometimes have encampments of Confederate soldiers and show how life was back then and how the fort was taken, you can also go out on the beach and fish and shell there. If you ever head toward the west in our state, if you like Andy Griffith, stop in to Mount Airy, the town that Mayberry comes from. All sorts of history in the old North State. Andy also got his acting start in Roanoke at the Lost Colony about the beginning of our country and state. Hope you all had fun, sorry this is such a long post...accckkk
Looks like "Love Bugs" that's what we call them here in Indiana
I love your videos always something exciting happening it makes me smile. 🙂🇨🇦❤👍👍👍👍
Glad you enjoy it!
I like your videos. You guys are doing great.
Seemed like the bugs got a little better down the beach. Just got our letric bikes and love them. Now to wait till warm weather to ride them.
My family vacations on the outer banks often. I make it a point to go to Ocracoke at least one day while we are there. It is an amazing place!
What a beautiful beach .
It really is!
More beautiful scenery from OBX!
Another water thing you could have tried is take your largest Rubbermaid container in back of truck and drive truck to water source. Fill Rubbermaid, drive to camper, hook hose up to fill water tank and other end into Rubbermaid. Turn on pump and it will fill your tank. Happily Ever Hanks did this. ☺🤩
we visited Kitty Hawk and it was an awesome day. very sentimental as our adult son was with us. he's a commercial air lines pilot.
That is special!
Great video! We stayed at Frisco Woods Campground in Frisco just above Hatteras in May and had a blast. Loved watching the kite boarders. They were everywhere. May is windy in the OBX so perfect for kiteboarding. We took our truck and Lectric bikes to Okracoke and had perfect weather that day for a ride around the beautiful island. It is so shallow in the Pamlico Sound. The ferry service is having an increasingly difficult time navigating the shifting sandbars. Glad all went well. Warmest wishes for many years of happy and safe travels. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍽🍁 and Merry Christmas 🎄 too and Best Wishes for a wonderful 2023! Looking forward to watching your TH-cam videos! ❤
Awesome! Happy Thanksgiving!
For sticky things in hair... rub peanut butter in and it will rinse out... including gum!
Wow! That’s scary being on a boat and it gets stuck with your house on it. But glad you made it the Ocracoke’s campground. That’s a plus. That lighthouse does look like Michigan’s lighthouse.
Happy Thanksgiving ❤
Happy Thanksgiving!
Must have been so much fun making breakfast!
It was!
That scenario with the water is one of the reasons I carry a 5 gallon emergency bladder of water. I can use it for flushing the toilet or I can carry water 5 gallons at a time to fill my fresh water tank.
Take the badger in Michigan. We can't wait to do it when we head west.
We are Michigan trolls ;) and live only a few hours away from Mackinaw Island. My eldest daughter from my first marriage worked the docks for Starline one summer and through their employee perks. We were able to get a free ferry pass for my husband, myself and two younger siblings. We didn't go to the fort because, when we went it was the beginning of the summer season and warning; insanely packed with tourists. We did love taking her younger sister and brother to the butterfly house, which on a hot day was probably not the best idea. They keep it like a hot house for the more tropical loving butterflies. However they did get to assist in releasing several new hatchlings so that alone was 1000% worth it!
We are currently waiting to see if our plans will go through kinda sitting on our backsides waiting on other folks to communicate about making a deposit to hold a TT so, praying they get it done today. Our first one that has been five years of researching and late night insomnia driven YT video watching. Love your fam and got a chuckle out of JJ's lolly holder as a Mother of seven mine ,yours and ours. It's hard to be patient when you're excited to get to you destination sometimes so I understand the wait part and trying to go with the flow perspective. I give you big points for the courage it took you to put your house on that ferry ,not sure I would be able to conquer that fear without a support doughnut.
You cannot sink, if you are stuck on a sand bar. You are on the bottom. They just have to get you off the sand bar so you can get somewhere. When the tide goes up, you will be able to float off the sand bar.
The more journey part :D
very nice. Not a fan at all of ebikes, but a huge fan of Ocracoke Island and the entire OBX. Loved our stay at that campground in October of 2022. Amazing place, and a beautiful bike ride into town as well (the old fashioned pedal way :) Keep up the great work, and as always, safe travels.
Thank you for watching Ocrcoke island is special!
OMG I did that ferry back in the 1990s and it was no wait .. Avon and Rodanthe were sleepy little beach towns .. the OBX looks like it has turned into the Jersey Shore. So so crowded. Wow 😮
It's definitely NOT the Jersey Shore...far far from it!
Ww always carry atleast 1 if not 2, 5 gallon water jugs just incase.
Great video! The beach looked beautiful but didn’t like the bugs. Mm you me hungry for s’mores. Hope you had a great time in the Outer Banks. Have a great week and weekend and see you all soon!
Thanks so much
The Hatteras to Ocracoke ferry route has the longest wait of all Outer Banks ferries because it does not accept reservations. It is best to get on the earliest ferry in the day possible to avoid hours of waiting. Groundings are much more common on that route because of the constant shifting of sands near the inlet. (Years ago that route only took about 20 minutes, now it takes an hour or so due to the more circuitous route necessary.) I am glad you got to see those beautiful dark skies and the Milky Way. Ocracoke is one of my husband's astronomy club's favorite places to star gaze. I hope your ferry ride off Ocracoke was less eventful.
The milky way was awesome I had never seen it before I'm in Akron ohio it's a mid sized city so lots of light position.But I got to see it when we stayed a week in outer banks the best way was before moon rise.
We took our class A with a Jeep Grand Cherokee in tow on that ferry. Great trip; we were traveling from Emerald Isle to Waves. We also did the Lake Champlain ferry from NY to Vermont, the high speed ferry from Bar Harbor ME to Nova Scotia CA. And the Cape May - Lewes ferry.
Very cool!
I wish I had known!
We visit there frequently and my parents had a home there when I was growing up!
In Corolla! At the Currituck Club!
just get a few collapsible 10 litre water containers. a few journeys back and to and you've got a days worth of water.
Marissa, I guess the ferry workers probably told you, but you know there wouldn't be much sinking going on. The water is only about 3 ft. deep on that ferry ride. With the shifting sands, boats are more likely to touch bottom without sinking.🙂🙃
Oh man...I couldn't have made it with all those bugs😂
Thanks for the great video!!! Lots of good ideas in case you need water below! I love how your community is so helpful. I use a $10 drill pump by Millscraft and 2-10' hoses with 2 collapsible 5-gallon containers. A few trips and you have enough water for the weekend. Its funny.. once I got it I have never needed it, but my friends have!! I learned my lesson when i filled up the fresh water tank, but forgot to close the fresh water drain valve from the year before! LOL
Awesome! Thank you!
Same here, except that I use an inexpensive 12v transfer pump from Harbor Freight that I modified to plug into the 7 pin receptacle on the back of my vehicle for power.
So try out using Vanilla wafers for s’mores next time. I used vanilla wafers,Reese peanut butter cup, and marshmallow.
So good!!!
Sounds great!
When I was younger, they actually moved the Hatteras lighthouse a short distance inland. Oh, it's 'Ocra'(like you eat, 'Coke' (like you hopefully drink😆)
Nice video. Be careful with the e-bikes near water. Lectric states they shouldn’t get too wet. Looks like fun riding on the beach.
Thanks for the tips!
Thanks! For that information. I’m going to the subtropics I guess the bikes are not gonna be a good idea.
Oh gosh you are near us!
Just missed you at Rodanthe. Once you take the Ocracoke-Cedar Island ferry, if you head south, visit Swansboro. Quaint little waterfront town.
Some buy a water bladder and fill it up then pump it into their water tank.
like your yacht!
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