. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. join the kingfisher as our upstream escorts. It isn't Webster's first visit to Milltail Creek, but the wild solitude is still impressive. "Back here," he says, "you'd never know there were seven and a half million people in the ; But you'd also never know that Milltail Creek was once the site of Dare County's largest town. Around the rum of dwindled away. The lumber company closed its operations about 1950. Once the saws stopped, the woods began reclaiming its streets. Today there
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. join the kingfisher as our upstream escorts. It isn't Webster's first visit to Milltail Creek, but the wild solitude is still impressive. "Back here," he says, "you'd never know there were seven and a half million people in the ; But you'd also never know that Milltail Creek was once the site of Dare County's largest town. Around the rum of dwindled away. The lumber company closed its operations about 1950. Once the saws stopped, the woods began reclaiming its streets. Today there is little left. On stormy days, knowing captains will thread the tiny creek mouth to anchor out of the wind, but mostly Buffalo City is the haunt of herons, a little mud ramp where you can launch a johnboat into the wide waters. Remote waterway stretches teem with wetland wildlife. the century, the Dare Lumber Co. built a lumber camp on the creek shore complete with boardinghouse, hotel, bars and a blacksmith shop. More than a thousand people lived in the tangled wetland swamp forests off Milltail Creek, logging out the great stands of Atlantic white cedar. In time, more than 100 miles of logging railroad were laid through the Alligator's virgin forest. "There it is," Webster says, pointing to a few old pilings in the woods, all that's left of the village. "Downtown Buffalo ; After a cholera epidemic wiped out most of Buffalo City's workers, the town where the creek swells into Boat Bay Lake. But it is a fitting introduction to the Intracoastal Waterway's charms, for this curious boaters' highway happens to pass through a world of startling contrasts. The waterway isn't so much a single lane of water carved through the coastal plain as a collection of protected canals, creeks, rivers and dredged navigation channels that stitch together the open waters of the Atlantic coastline. In places, the waterway is as commercialized and urban as the Norfolk water
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