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2013 OBX: If you are a water photographer, you know it's not always easy to be in the right place at the right time. In this case, I was in the wrong place but still tried to make the best of it. Photo: Chris Frick.
North Carolina’s a gem. For one, it has the Outer Banks. Do we need a second reason? Not really, but here’s another: Blackbeard the Pirate called it home. That means that somewhere beneath those perfect, barreling hurricane waves, there’s buried pirate treasure. There. Two reasons why it’s a gem. And there are 15 more reasons above.