The Ocracoke Harbor Inn

06/08/2026

Free Ranger, from Ocracoke, boated a blue marlin!

ETA to weigh in is 7:00pm.

Go Rob, GOOOOOOOOOOOO!

We are all cheering for you!!

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

FREE RANGER has boated a BLUE MARLIN 🙌🏼 ETA is 7:00PM

Come by Big Rock Landing OR tune in on Big Rock TV | link in bio ✅

06/08/2026

Monday Motivation:

Our Ocean.

Our Obligation.

Our Opportunity.

Our HOME.

The ocean isn't just our view, it's our soul.

This World Ocean Day, we celebrate the waters that shape our island lifestyle and connect our community in ways words can't capture.

It can be magical to live on an island; it can also be challenging. Regardless, we love and respect the water that SURROUNDS us.

Boating, fishing, beaching, shelling, and exploring, EVERYTHING starts with the water. It’s why you visit here. It’s why we live here.

When nature feels like home, you protect it like family.

Today, and every day, we celebrate alllllll of that majesty and grandeur.

We invite you to do the same.

📸: Ray Matthews Photography 💕

06/07/2026

Everything I Need To Know About Ocracoke I Learned On Howard Street:

Slow down.

Speak to everyone, especially young people and dogs.

Eventually, someone will bring you a cake, a fish, shrimp, or deer.

Stay hungry for life.

Walking through cemeteries can teach you how to talk to the living.

Living next to a graveyard helps you to stay in touch with your mortality by reminding you to live fully.

There are always forks in the road.

When you're lost, someone will come along and tell you where you are.

You should ask a neighbor for help.

Islands are isolated but people don't have to be.

Connect with the others around you.

A small light can brighten the darkest places.

Community has a distinctive sound. When all else fails, listen - someone will be singing or playing your way home.

Look out for golf carts and look both ways before you cross the street.

We are custodians of the island. We pass everything on to someone else.

Beautifully written by the late
Richard Bryant,
former Pastor of OUMC

And lovingly shared by his wife, Mary Bryant

(The Parsonage was on Howard Street during their time here)

06/04/2026

June is looking fierce! Look at all of these incredible events!

Kicking it off this weekend is the always stellar Ocrafolk Music & Storytelling Festival! Long time guests and friends will start rolling in today…who will be the first to arrive? We’re waiting to see the first sign of t-shirt from prior years…
We’ll keep you posted…

In the meantime, check out the music scene, the family friendly options, the kid friendly options, the whatever-you-want-to-do options….so many choices!

Plan accordingly!

And let me know if I’ve missed anything!

See you around the village!

06/03/2026

🎂 Happy Birthday to Captain Norman Miller….
🎣the man, the myth, the LEGEND!

🏝️We miss seeing him on a daily basis... but he is loving retirement in the Florida Keys!!! Living his best life in the islands!

🎂Happiest of Birthdays Norman a.k.a "Pops"!

💕Wishing you a wonderful day, and a spectacular new year...love and miss you!

🛥️How many of you have been on a fishing adventure with Capt. Norman?

🐟Drop us your fish tales on the Rascal in the comments below….

06/02/2026

So many fish tales to tell - and yet to be told - because this is how we do Tuesdays, or ANY day really, on Ocracoke.

Patiently waiting to feel a tug on the line….

No stress.

No shoes.

No schedule.

Just sunshine, salt air, sandy feet, waves rolling in, and the kind of freedom that reminds you what life's really about.

Because out here, we don't chase weekends — we celebrate everyday.

06/02/2026

Front row seats for the fierce beauty of an evening storm rolling in…

06/01/2026

Monday Motivation:
🦶 GO BAREFOOT!
and, also help us wish Byron a very
🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

🛠️ This guy works super hard to keep us, and the Inn straight…he even (reluctantly) participates in the silliness and shenanigans of the office. We appreciate all he does to keep this place in tip-top shape…

🍺 The Barefoot Executive is tanning his toes in the Abacos for his special day...at his favorite place in the world, Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas. You will find him at his MOST favorite place, Sundowners, tonight (and every night-feel free to call them and order him a beer! )

🦶 Coincidentally, (or not), June 1st is always National Go Barefoot Day!!
(but as we all know, Byron is barefoot EVERY day! 🤣)
Help us celebrate Byron by going barefoot today, or drinking a Kalik!!!

06/01/2026

The full moonrise tonight is breathtaking!!!

05/28/2026

to the 🦀Ocracoke Crab Festival.

🦀ROLL CALL: Who was there? Who remembers it it? Any stories you’d like to share with the group? 😜

🦀Before ALLLLLLL of the festivals, and scheduled events that now happen on the island, there was only ONE major event on the island. One that stood apart from the others…and always will.

🦀The OG of Ocracoke music, fun, shenanigans and community.

🦀The GOAT of all island gatherings.

🦀People still reminisce about it…longing for a simpler time.

🦀Every now and then, you’ll hear conversations, whispered with reverence, of “bringing it back.”

🦀And then all of the tales and stories of silliness and “misbehavior” start pouring out, like a Jimmy Buffet song. “Remember when so-and-so, did such-and-such?”

🦀But times have changed; the Crab Festival has to stay where it is…in the idyllic mists of nostalgia and yesteryear.

🦀A lot of the folks in this video are still here. A lot aren’t. If you love Ocracoke, it’s worth a deep dive into learning more, ask folks about it, google it, read Philip Howard’s blog… see what shows up.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qPFGOKaMywU&pp=ygUWb2NyYWNva2UgY3JhYiBmZXN0aXZhbA%3D%3D&ra=m

Ocracoke residents and visitors gather on the docks for a day of music- and crab-pickin', May 3, 1986.