If a roaring, 7-foot-tall, chest-beating gorilla named Flex stands before you, you are either in very grave danger or you’re at the entrance of Outer Banks Sports Club in Nags Head.

For those who have yet to see it for themselves, the imposing gorilla comes to life by way of a power cord. Its presence at Outer Banks Sports Club (OBSC) came about in 2022 when the gym’s owner, Manny Golasa, was changing the gym’s logo from a hammerhead shark to a hulking gorilla. Golasa stumbled across an animatronic ape at a trade show, and when he expressed interest to the seller, they offered to build a custom version that more closely resembled the OBSC...read more

A coastal-area vineyard and winery might be a surprising concept, but once you have visited Sanctuary Vineyards and tasted their award-winning European-style wines, you will discover what a great thing it is.

For the last 22 years the Wright family of Jarvisburg has found Currituck County’s rich soil and sunny, warm and windy climate to be ideal for growing vinifera grapes like Albarino, Syrah, Tempranillo, Viognier, Tannat, Petit Verdot, Petit Manseng and more – all just 3 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

The resulting wines debunk the deeply ingrained myth that all North Carolina wine is sweet. Sanctuary’s wines are sophisticated, dry and complex, and they continually win awards, including the recent N.C. Governor’s Cup Award for The Plank...read more

If you want a true taste of the Outer Banks, eat a locally harvested oyster. Nothing tastes more like the coastal environment than our native eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica). They taste like the waters where they grow – salty with the perfect hints of minerality and fishiness. If you love oysters, you love them, and if you don’t, well, that just leaves more for the rest of us. Oysters are one of the most-loved seafood options, and lucky for us, they are harvested right here along the Outer Banks...read more