Robert Carlyle

Living on Ocracoke in the winter is boring to most kids. Most people say that there is nothing to do, personally winter is my favorite season on Ocracoke. For me winter on Ocracoke means Waterfowl hunting. Waterfowl hunting has been around since the early 1800’s. Waterfowl hunting is the sport or the practice of hunting ducks, geese, swans or any other types of waterfowl. Waterfowl hunting is one of the most popular types of hunting in North America. Waterfowl hunting is growing every year. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife service's “Migratory birds, such as geese and ducks attracted 2.6 million hunters in 2011” ("2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife ..."). In order to hunt, ducks hunters have to purchase a duck stamp. Each duck stamp costs $25. Considering that most people hunt ducks and geese, there is a demand to buy duck stamps every year. In 2011, 2.6 million people that hunted migratory birds bought these stamps. The government made sixty-five million dollars in profits from these stamps. Now, almost six years later the number of duck hunters has increased. Types of duck hunting There are many methods of duck hunting. On Ocracoke there are two primary methods. The first and most popular method is “sink box hunting” or now known as “Curtain Blind Hunting”. A sink was a hollow box that floated in the water used in the past. Today it’s a curtain blind witch is fixed into the ground and can be lifted and lowered according to the depth of the…

The beach in Australia. We all go there. We all play, swim and enjoy the time in the sun. But have you ever noticed the people in the red and yellow? According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics , in Australia more than 85% if “Australia’s superheroes are the lifeguards in the red and yellow” people live within 50 kilometres of the coastline of Australia. We all enjoy spending time at the beach on any free day. Typical superhero in most people’s head is Superman or Batman. A strong muscly…

It all started over a hot summer day when Claudia and her best-friend Piper went on an adventure. “Claudia we should do something fun today because i'm tired of wasting my summer days inside. So let’s go hiking or something because it's beautiful out.” “I agree that we should go hiking; then, cliff jumping, and my one friend was at this place called lock 12 it’s like 45 minutes away but it looked so cool.” “Yes i’m down, let’s go.” As they’re getting ready ,Claudia calls some of her other…

June 26th 2015, I walked outside of Marlboro High School with a grin on my face, and an excited feeling in my tummy. Schools out and summer vacation has begun! The warm summer breeze brushed against my skin. I said to myself “Oh this is perfect.” I looked at my phone as soon as my brother picked me up from the front of the school. I had already known whom had texted me, and what the message was about. It was that time to go to the Toms River house right on the bay and stay there every weekend…

Sitting in 10th hour, counting down the seconds until schools finally over and it's summer. Everyone starts counting down, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and then the last thing everyone screams is “SUMMER!!” I got that sudden feeling of joy rumbling around in my stomach. It was finally summer, the time where I could do whatever I wanted to without any dumb school rules that I had to deal with everyday. I am Emily if you were wondering. My favorite color is purple and I am a normal girl who loves to tan and…

How to Do Sunsets in Tampa One of the awesome things about living on Florida’s Gulf Coast is the free show staged nightly by Mother Nature. The sun dipping behind saltwater and white-sand beaches, or over impressive city architecture, is enough to spur you want to move here, and we at ICI Homes can help if you check out our work at three master-planned communities in the Tampa Bay area — Asturia, Bexley and FishHawk Ranch. But, if you’d occasionally like to enjoy a Gulf Coast sunset…

Hawaiian Serenity One summer years ago, about 2005, my family went on vacation to Hawaii which took all of two weeks during the month of July. We were all badly sunburnt from the strong Hawaiian sun, using bottles and bottles of aloe to soothe our burned skin. The rough ocean water left our eyes and ears waterlogged for days. However, other than these two setbacks, the vacation was a complete success. Every few years since then, we return as a family during the month of July for about two weeks.…

A Perfect Summer at the Beach How lovely it is to begin the day being woken up by the rays of the sun peering through your window! This is how my day began one perfect summer. Even the birds seemed to have come together outside my bedroom window to offer me a melody. How divine! As my fiancé and our girls lay sound asleep, I began to prepare our breakfast. The menu was bacon, eggs, pancakes, and fresh squeeze orange juice for the girls. As the bacon sizzled in the pan, the aroma of black coffee…

Have you ever looked forward to something so much that you're nearly exploding with anticipation? Well, that's how I feel as I sit on this boat with my best buddy in the whole wide world, Blake. It's the nicest day of the summer and I've been itching to take my new boat out for a spin since I bought it last summer. Obviously, I had to take Blake with me becasue we've been on boats since we were little boys. Now, at twenty-one years old, I get to sit back and relax on a boat of my own. "Hey…

The best thing I did this Summer was going to Hawaii with my family. We were gone for two weeks and went to two different islands. Maui was our first stop and on our second day, we went scuba diving which was my favorite part of the trip. We saw many different species of fish and saw a shark. Our instructor went right up to the shark to bring it out of its cave and it swam right by us. The next island we went to was Kauai which is gorgeous and green. This was the best thing I did this Summer…