Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Sea Oatel to come down

I rode over to Nags Head today to see what was left of the Sea Oatel, which is scheduled to meet with the bulldozer imminently. The windows were all out and a lot of the doors were standing open. I heard employees on the parking lot discussing that the demolition will start tomorrow. Recently purchased by new owners, it will now become new homes on individual lots. The west side units are to be kept as motel units. The old owners have recently purchased the Elizabethan Inn/ Nautics Hall complex in Manteo, and are busy running that.

Here's the way it looked today.


Meanwhile vacationers enjoyed the beaches today even though the red flags were flying to warn not to go into the ocean.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

it's a little sad to see all of the old family owned motels leaving the outer banks. remember the sand dollar? i stayed there many years growing up. the site is now the nags head inn, and it just doesn't have the same charm

Anonymous said...

It's so, so sad to see all the old character of the Outer Banks being stripped away one by one. Now we have all these 'luxury' houses and no character. People have no idea what they missed.