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8 bedroom, semi-oceanfront vacation rental on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

10/30/2026

Another nugget of OBX history

10/27/2026

10/09/2026

Nothing in this world better for me than being at Grace. Thank you Jesus for giving this cottage to me. 🙏🏻

09/25/2026

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09/17/2026

It is an amazing experience to see these magnificent animals 🐎

The wild horses that roam the northern beaches of Corolla, North Carolina may trace back nearly 500 years, to Spanish ships that explored this coast in the 1500s. 🐴 DNA testing conducted in 1992 and again in 2008 confirmed what locals had long suspected: these are genuine Colonial Spanish Mustangs, among the last of their kind still living wild anywhere in the country.

That lineage nearly didn't survive to see the testing. By the 1980s and 90s, the herd had dwindled to as few as 40 animals, worn down by inbreeding, development pressure, and horses being struck by cars as Corolla grew. In 1989, local residents formed the Corolla Wild Horse Fund to protect what remained, and by the mid-1990s the herd had been relocated north of the paved roads to Carova Beach, safely behind sound-to-sea fencing. Today the herd has grown back to more than 100 horses.

It's a rare thing to watch a living link to sixteenth-century exploration still running free on an American beach. 🌊

If you've ever spotted the Corolla horses in person, what was it like seeing them up close on the sand?

08/20/2026

The play is a beautiful experience.

07/27/2026

The busiest inlet on the Outer Banks did not exist until one September night in 1846, when a hurricane carved it open in a matter of hours. ⛈️

For years the barrier island south of Nags Head had been one long unbroken ribbon of sand. Then a powerful storm drove the waters of Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic together with such force that they punched clean through the island in two places at once, opening both Oregon Inlet and Hatteras Inlet in the same tempest. Where there had been dune and sea oats, there was suddenly a churning new channel to the sea. 🌊

The inlet took its name from the first vessel to pass through it, a side wheel steamer called the Oregon whose crew rode the fresh cut out to the ocean. Almost overnight the new opening reshaped shipping, fishing, and life on the Banks, and it has been shifting and migrating ever since, a restless gap that engineers still fight to keep open today. ⚓

It is wild to think that a landmark this important was born in a single storm, not carved slowly over centuries. Does it change how you see the Outer Banks to know how quickly that coastline can rewrite itself?

06/29/2026

Address

1004 Lighthouse Drive
Corolla, NC
27927

Website

http://OceansGrace.com/

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