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It contains a herd of feral horses, scallop, crabs and various sea animals, including summer nesting by loggerhead turtles. [2] It is a tourist and beach camping site. [3] Shackleford Banks is located near Harkers Island, North Carolina, Beaufort, North Carolina, and Fort Macon State Park, and is a part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore.
The Banker horse is a breed of feral horse (Equus ferus caballus) living on barrier islands in North Carolina's Outer Banks.It is small, hardy, and has a docile temperament. Descended from domesticated Spanish horses and possibly brought to the Americas in the 16th century, the ancestral foundation bloodstock may have become feral after surviving shipwrecks or being abandoned on the islands by ...
People share the beaches of Corolla and Carova with wild horses. Mustangs arrived in the 1500s on Spanish ships; their descendants, known as Bankers, roam through the surf, sand dunes and clusters ...
The Carolina Marsh Tacky or Marsh Tacky is a critically endangered breed of horse, [1] native to South Carolina. It is a member of the Colonial Spanish group of horse breeds, which also include the Florida Cracker Horse and the Banker horse of North Carolina. It is a small horse, well-adapted for use in the lowland swamps of its native South ...
A small, feral herd of horses living on Shackleford Banks, North Carolina. No one is sure exactly how they arrived there – there are unproven legends about horses swimming ashore from shipwrecks.
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Carova Beach or Carova is an unincorporated community in Currituck County in the extreme northeastern corner of North Carolina, United States. The community, begun in the 1960s, is found on Currituck Banks, north of Bodie Island, and can be accessed only by boat or by four-wheel drive vehicle. There are no paved roads connecting Carova to the ...
The 2024 10Best USA TODAY Reader's Choice list of best beaches in North Carolina is here just in time for the summer months. As always, beaches were chosen by an expert panel and voted on by readers.