Originally Posted by 1fluffhead
Ocracoke makes a great day trip if you leave you car on Hatteras and just take your bike on the ferry. It is nice because you don't have to wait nearly as long for the next ferry. Word to the wise: it can be a lot of biking, in hot sun, so you need to go prepared.
We did that one year. Stayed in Hatteras (usually stay in Avon/canal side/behind Froggy Dog) and took the ferry to OK. Made that 13 mile bike ride to the town, did the tourist thing and then stopped in Howard's Pub on the way out of town for a frosty one. Needless to say, one turned into several and that 13 mile ride back to the ferry felt like a century.