• Friday, December 6th - Saturday, December 7th

Head to the Island Farm in Manteo where history, local culture, and the holiday spirit will combine for a fun and multiple-day event that showcases the holiday traditions of the earliest days on the Outer Banks.

Visitors will enjoy a beautifully landscaped site, inside and out, while costumed interpreters will share how Roanoke Island families celebrated the Christmas holiday in the mid-1800s. The event will include a wide array of hands-on activities and demonstrations for visitors of all ages, including holiday crafts, cooking and food exhibits, candle-making, kettle corn, and much more. Christmas ornament crafting and grapevine wreath making will be the highlights of the three-day event, along with the opportunity to visit and have pictures made with St. Nicholas inside the Island Farm’s historic homeplace. With lots of ways to ring in the season, Christmas on the North End is a joyful and unique celebration that is both educational and miles of fun for visitors all along the Outer Banks. Tickets are required for adults and children 4 and over and can be purchased at Roanoke Island’s Island Farm on the day of the visit.

Risky Business Shrimping and Crabbing

Risky Business Shrimping and Crabbing

If you’re looking for a fun, hands-on activity that the whole family can enjoy together, hop aboard Risky Business for an Outer Banks shrimping and crabbing charter. Our experienced captain and mate will show your group how to pull crab pots to catch blue crabs and trawl for shrimp the same way that the local commercial fishermen do. You’ll learn about the species caught and how to sort through the catch – and everything of legal size is yours to keep for dinner! Along the way you’ll look for dolphins and other wildlife and see the sights in the Roanoke Sound and Croatan Sound. Based at Shallowbag Bay Marina in Manteo, our Outer Banks shrimping and crabbing charter is convenient to all the northern Outer Banks beach towns, only 5 minutes from Nags Head. We run charters in the summer only, from mid-June through September.