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 By: HGY12S | Posted By: HGY12S - (Send PM) Member Since: 2/2/2014 Location: Philadelphia, PA Total Posts: 84 Experience:  Date Posted: 5/9/2015 11:14 AM |  |
On the “really want to visit” thread, a few of you guys suggested camping as an inexpensive way to visit the island…… However, the mosquitos on the OBX are legendary. Going from the front door of the rental home to the car can make a person anemic from blood loss. I have heard stories of small children being carried off by the bigger skeeters…….. I would imagine the walk from the camp site to the bath house would be miserable……. How do you deal with it? Are you always in the tent/screen house? Are you constantly spraying down with repellent? I would think the mosquitos would make tent camping almost intolerable. | ||
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 By: Squid Pro Quo | Posted By: Squid Pro Quo - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/21/2008 Location: Total Posts: 7496 Experience:  Date Posted: 5/9/2015 11:25 AM | |
I've camped on the Island many times. I spray with Cutter as soon as I get out of the vehicle and it lasts for hours. Skeeters seem to be the worst at sunset and for another 45 minutes or so. Windy days are your saving grace, but don't be fooled, they hide behind wind breaks just like us! My "Camper's cologne" of choice is definitely Cutter with around 20% DEET. | ||
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 By: throrope | Posted By: throrope - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/8/2010 Location: Total Posts: 243 Experience: Date Posted: 5/9/2015 7:00 PM | |
Growing up our family tent camped all across the country and my wife and I camped until the kids came along. We got a travel trailer not long before our son's first bithday and frequented the OBX for a decade before buying a second home in Salvo. Few visitors tent camp in the OBX for good reason. The high season is hot. A tent will be an uncomfortable refuge from mosquitoes. Thunder storms pass often. In a travel trailer or cottage they can be exciting. They leave behind clear weather. In a tent, you could enjoy a complete washout. The OBX can be windy for days. Again, a tent provides a poor escape. I pan the tent for selfish reason. I want you to enjoy an awsome visit with treasured memories. They keep us returning year after year. IMHO, a better economical alternative is visiting in September or May, the edge of off season. I suggest September. The weather is fine, and the rental rates are a fracton of high season. You will also have the best beaches dang close to yourselves. | ||
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 By: Rick | Posted By: Rick - (Send PM) Member Since: 2/8/2004 Location: Amissville Va. Total Posts: 3075 Experience: Date Posted: 5/9/2015 7:47 PM | |
I tent camped for years, You need the deet But it is not all that bad if a breeze in blowing they don,t fly You will enjoy it. I would be more worried of the green head fly's on no see ums. | ||
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By: beach bunny | Posted By: beach bunny - (Send PM) Member Since: 4/18/2010 Location: Ohio but the beach in my mind Total Posts: 2486 Experience: Date Posted: 5/10/2015 1:02 AM | |
We made it one night camping on Ocraco*ke, it was supposed to be 10. The flies were from Satan. If we had been in a windy spot, it wouldn't have been so bad. I have friends who camp on Ocraco*ke every year for a month. They love it. They are still doing it in their 60s and because they love it. they could afford to rent a house or condo. I really think it's personal preference and necessity. I'd at least need a pop-up for shelter and being out of the ground water. We did love the location and set up of Frisco Campground. | ||
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By: obx338 | Posted By: obx338 - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/23/2011 Location: Total Posts: 45 Experience: Date Posted: 5/10/2015 8:13 AM | |
Pick up some Skeeter Beater from a tackle shop | ||
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By: HGY12S | Posted By: HGY12S - (Send PM) Member Since: 2/2/2014 Location: Philadelphia, PA Total Posts: 84 Experience: Date Posted: 5/10/2015 9:39 AM | |
Squid's Campers Cologne - The scent women love and mosquitoes hate!......There ya go Squiddy, a marketing angle for ya. Now all ya gotta do is sell, sell, sell!! Beach Bunny, "The fly's were from satan." | ||
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 By: Dhart | Posted By: Dhart - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/29/2014 Location: SE Ohio (on the Ohio River) Total Posts: 1662 Experience: Date Posted: 5/10/2015 4:02 PM | |
Several years ago, living in suburban D.C., I drove to Chesapeake Beach VA to fish for bluefish at night...wind was a constant 15 - 20 m.p.h. I was bitten so bad by mosquitoes, I literally could only sleep 3 hrs. in 2 days. Point being that wind may not be a great "repellent" for a camping experience. | ||
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 By: Hatterasgirl33 | Posted By: Hatterasgirl33 - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/25/2013 Location: Virginia Beach & Rodanthe, NC Total Posts: 49 Experience: Date Posted: 5/12/2015 7:47 PM | |
Spent many years camping at Rodanthe Watersports and Campground and loved every moment except when you were caught without spray. Gotta have it down there. No longer camping as we bought a house in Rodanthe but I still have to use spray to sit out on the deck unless the wind keeps them away. Camped at Ocraco*ke several times and I remember one year it was so bad we had to leave. Once you left the tent, you were COVERED with mosquitos. | ||
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By: Beachmark | Posted By: Beachmark - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/18/2011 Location: Afton, VA Total Posts: 6066 Experience: Date Posted: 5/13/2015 8:54 AM | |
We tent camped several times with no particular bug issues, including summer, but never on Ocraco*ke. Bug repellent..... | ||
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 By: MongOBX | Posted By: MongOBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/23/2013 Location: Massillon, Ohio Total Posts: 1053 Experience: Date Posted: 5/13/2015 9:51 AM | |
These stories remind me of the movie Vacation:
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By: NC Native | Posted By: NC Native - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/26/2014 Location: Total Posts: 107 Experience: Date Posted: 5/14/2015 9:43 AM | |
which island? Ocraco*ke has Greenhead Flies that will hunt you down...even into the ocean & wait for you to surface so they can bite your head. | ||
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