Oak Island’s Jetport Expands

Oak Island’s Cape Fear Regional Jetport Expands is growing!The runway expansion project has been completed which allows the airport to cater to much larger aircraft.

And there are two more construction projects on the way: a 12-acre ramp and a return taxi-way.

All of this is being done using a multi-million dollar grant to Cape Fear Regional Jetport from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to build the return taxi way.

The state has put $27.4 million into the airport over the last 19 years with the grant money coming from the FAA, created by the aviation trust fund. The aviation trust fund comes from all of the pilots buying gas. The pilots, not the taxpayer, are paying for the development of the airport.

One grant-funded project is under way and another multi-million dollar grant was just announced.

Construction is under way for the$3.4 million 12-acre ramp and new hangar area. “This is to be able to handle the many jets coming in and out of the airport. They have been having to separate the jets from the small aircraft. Once completed, jet traffic will go to another side of the airport by the new ram under construction.

A $3.65 million FAA grant, announced this month, will pay for construction of a parallel taxiway.
Construction on the new 12-acre ramp is to be complete by early this summer, and the return taxiway is expected to be completed by the spring of next year.

Construction is also under way for three 100-foot-by-100-foot hangars.

U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., announced the grant earlier this month.

“The Cape Fear Regional Jetport is an important component of the economy of Brunswick County, and it is integral to continued growth and development.  These federal funds, appropriated by Congress for use by the Federal Aviation Administration, will help the airport continue to grow and prosper,” said McIntyre.
In addition to safety concerns, the expansion projects also help with economic development to the region.

Photographer’s New Book

The beauty of Oak Island and the other beach’s of NC’s Brunswick Islands are featured in new book by nationally renowned local nature photographer and artist, Ken Buckner!

Favorite Beach Photos – By Ken Buckner

Hardcover coffee table edition with 128 high quality 8″x10″ pages with 100 full color photographs.

Stroll sandy shores by the sea or the beaches of a lovely lake and see sunrises, sunsets and wildlife just as nationally renowned local nature photographer and artist, Ken Buckner viewed them through his camera.

This is Ken’s journey and you are invited to join him through these pages. Most of the photos were taken near his home in the South Brunswick Islands of North Carolina.

“I explore beauty with my camera. The photos show the journey” – Ken Buckner

The book includes the occasional “story behind the picture.” Ken wants the reader to feel some of the excitement he experienced capturing these special moments in time.

Buy The Book – $35.00

The Tower! Just Too Cool!

Ever wanted to stay the night in a lighthouse/tower off of the NC Coast? Well you can! A software engineer from Oklahoma, Richard Neal, purchased the Frying Pan Shoals Light Tower, located just off of Oak Island NC, in 2010 and has taken on the immense project of restoring the tower. His intent is to offer overnight stays to charter fishing expeditions and divers who frequent Frying Pan Shoals. Neal is taking donations and is using the help of volunteers to make the restorations.

The tower also offers a safe haven for boaters and a helipad for use in medical emergencies. “Top-end” users could fly in for a week or weekend and enjoy a private fishing vacation according to Neal.

Neal also hopes to have a cell phone tower erected on the platform. Neal, 51, is a licensed pilot who had flown over the structure but had not yet set foot on it when he made the winning bid.

The tower is a modified 80-foot steel oil drilling platform and was used by the Coast Guard from 1966 until about eight years ago as an aid to navigation. The Coast Guard turned the nautical landmark over to the GSA to be sold when the introduction of GPS and buoys rendered the tower obsolete.

A federal General Services Administration spokesman said Neal was the only bidder for the modified 80-foot steel oil drilling platform when it was auctioned off in 2010.

The tower has two floors and 5,000 square feet of living space including five bedrooms, a kitchen, office, storage area, recreation area and toilet facilities.

Prior to beginning life on the tower Mr. Neal admitted to fishing only once in his life but had gained a love of the ocean from many flights taken along the Eastern Seaboard in his small private plane.

Neal currently has the tower accessible and hopes to be “fully functional” by 2012. We are not certain what conditions are at this time but they are taking reservations! Go here to make a reservation inquiry: http://www.fptower.com/inquiry.html

 

Now the story gets more interesting…Neal has written a book, or rather a software program born on the tower has written an ebook available for Kindle download at Amazon, “Hiding In Anonymity (HIA)”all proceeds are donated to the restoration efforts. Rather than trying to explain I offer this video for your consideration.. or in the words of The Twilight Zone “Submitted for Your Approval”…

 

Check out their website and facebook page to get a better idea of what’s going on!

http://www.fptower.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Frying-Pan-Shoals-Light-Station/121119241261861

Blackbeard’s Pirateship Anchor

A 3,000 pound anchor has been recovered off the North Carolina coast on Friday, by Archaeologists from what they believe to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship! It is hoped that this might change plans regarding how to save the rest of the almost 300 year old artifacts from the central part of the pirate ship.

Divers had planned to bring up the second-biggest artifact on what is thought to be the Queen Anne’s Revenge however they discovered it was too well-attached to some of the other items in the pile of ballast, according to the project director, Mark Wilde-Ramsing. So they pulled up another anchor instead that is the third-largest artifact and was most likely the anchor for the ship.

The anchor, which is 11 feet, 4 inches long with arms that are 7 feet, 7 inches across, was covered with a mixture of shells, sand and other debris that has been attracted by the leaching wrought iron. Its estimated to weigh approximately 2,500 to 3,000 pounds.
The size of the anchor is typical for a ship the size of the Queen Anne’s Revenge, with the two other anchors probably used in the event of an emergency, like a storm.

Archaeologists were planning to remove the second-largest anchor, which is 13 feet long with arms that are 8 feet across, from where it is located on top of the ballast pile. But found it to be too well-attached, so the divers went in from the side instead retrieving the “everyday anchor”. This means that in the future other dives may require going in from the side of the shipwreck rather than the top.

Divers are continuing to work for four days next week, then they’ll decide how best to move forward. The dive team hopes to recover all the artifacts by the end of 2013.

North Carolina state officials are hoping the anchor as well as the other artifacts will attract tourists. The shipwreck was discovered in 1996, causing world wide attention. The largest exhibit of artifacts from will be on view at the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort starting June 11.

The timing of the recovery of the anchor couldn’t be better for North Carolina tourism interest in the shipwreck. The Disney film “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” starring Johnny Depp was just released earlier this month featuring both Blackbeard and the Queen Anne’s Revenge.

Shipwreck Diving NC

Everyone fascinated with the sea will enjoy reading this documentary on local shipwreck diving. The book features stories and pictures about ships that have sunk offshore this area since the early 1800s.

Local authors Fred R David and Vern J. Bender created this 66 page paperback book.

$14.95 Buy it at: http://Islands-Art.com

People from age 4 to 104 will love this book, for twelve good reasons:

* It provides short stories of the last voyage of ships that sank offshore of Sunset Beach, Ocean Isle Beach, Holden Beach, Oak Island, and Baldhead Island
* It provides actual pictures of ships that sank here, such as the Sherman, the Hebe, the Raritan, the Governor, and the City of Houston
* It provides GPS #’s of many shipwrecks off southeast North Carolina
* It provides color pictures and short descriptions of exotic marine life that inhabit local shipwrecks
* It reveals where local Shark Tooth Beds are located and describes the extinct megalodon that once roamed here * It discusses the local Cypress Tree Forest on the ocean floor
* It provides numerous embedded YouTube video hotlinks to bring to life local shipwrecks and marine life
* It describes how, when, and where to catch spiny and slipper lobster here
* It gives important information for diving local shipwrecks, including depth, visibility, currents, type of artifacts, and marine life
* It describes local shipwreck history, from pirate ships to Civil War blockade runners, to World War II U-boat victims, to the recent Valour sinking * It tells the story of Frying Pan Tower and Frying Pan Lightships
* Help us preserve the history of this area by making this book available to others.

$14.95 Buy it at: http://Islands-Art.com

Miller Pope’s Book of Pirates

From Captain Kidd to Blackbeard to the pirates of the orient . . . From bloody battles to walking the plank- from blunderbusses to cutlasses, With nearly 150 original illustrations, this volume is sure to please and inform pirate fans of all ages.

Buy this book at:

http://Islands-Art.com

• Race for Riches: a history of the origins of piracy
• Greed and Gold: a pirate’s life aboard ship and in battle
• Tools of the Trade: weapons, vessels, and pirate culture
• Rogues and Raiders: profiles of pirates through history
• Other Pirates, Other Times: the past and future of piracy
• A Roster of Infamy: a list of pirates and their vessels

“The illustrations are incredible, from the actual pirates to their ships, battles, maps, tools of the trade and treasures. For every generations’ fascination with pirates and the exotic and exciting life they supposedly led, this book will satisfy that hunger for the actual and imagined part of pirate lore.

Miller Pope is as exceptional a writer as he is an illustrator, writing with the visual in mind, always crafting his words from an illustrators’ perspective and then backing that image up with the very picture the words so masterfully created.”

- Island Living Magazine

The Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter

The Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter, on Oak Island, NC, gives sick and injured birds from all of the area islands the chance to both heal both to fly and find food again.

The Shelter cares for injured or orphaned birds providing safety from predators, minimum medical care, food and shelter from the elements.

When an animal is again able to care for itself, it is released back into the wild. The Shelter does not keep nonreleasable animals nor do they use heroic methods to sustain the quality of their life. However, the Shelter makes every effort to rehabilitate any endangered species and every animal brought there is treated with respect and caring.

The shelter has been operated by Mary Ellen Rogers since 2007. After she moved to North Carolina in 2003 and purchased a cottage she named “Sea Biscuit,” Mary Ellen came to the realization that there was no rehabilitation center for local shorebirds that get tangled in fish nets, swallow fish hooks, or are otherwise injured or become orphaned.

The local turtle volunteers and animal control encouraged her to care for injured birds. Mary Ellen volunteered for a term at the SC Center for Birds of Prey and the Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter to gain experience. Then she went on to obtain the state and federal permits necessary to open Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter.

Dedicated to birds solely, rather than being a large all encompassing facility, the shelter is located in the lower level of Mary Ellen’s small beach house and in her back yard.

Due to the nature of their injuries or illnesses, some of the birds are kept inside in cages while they recover while others, particularly Brown Pelicans, are kept outside. Mary Ellen’sbackyard now holds three wood and plastic-netted enclosures. The largest enclosure, which is 12′ x 30′ and 12′ high, allows the birds the opportunity to flight train and even hunt for their own food prior to their release. A medium sized enclosure, 8′ x16′ and 8′ high, is for songbirds and gulls or birds needing a lot of privacy. The newest is for the little birds who require flight training prior to their release. The Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter is not open to the public in order to protect the birds from any unnecessary noise or disturbance.

Today while I was making this webpage, Sea Biscuit had a busy day. Within three hours, Mary Ellen received an new emaciated Red-throated Loon that had been bitten by a shark, a cardinal mauled by a cat, and an orphaned mourning dove.

Caring for injured or sick birds is a full-time job requiring rising before dawn, intense labor and money for food, medication and supplies. Some examples of the early morning tasks and many repeated throughout the day, include preparing the special diets required for the different species of birds, changing the towels in the cages, cleaning the 30-gallon aquarium, and weighing the babies. Some of the additional chores include replacing the fresh water into each of the cages, adjusting heating pads and heat lamps for young birds. Many of the birds must be fed by hand and some have to be taken outside for the day. Some of the birds must be tube fed and there are bandages to changed. Multuple loads of towels require washing and drying and each of the bird’s medical chart must be updated after each feeding.

You can help! Because Mary Ellen has such limited space, unless you could send medical supplies, the best way to help is to send a check. All contributions are tax deductible because Sea Biscuit is a 501(c)3 organization. Last year Mary Ellen paid $1,150 to obtain that status.

Your children’s school class could adopt the Shelter as a project by raising money or saving dimes or pennies for a year.

If you are among the 10,000 visitors to each of our islands every week during the summer and enjoy our coastal birds, make a donation that will be helpful and appreciated.

Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter
910-278-7871
1638 East Beach Drive, Oak Island, NC 28465

Click here to see the Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter Wish List.

Carolina Belle In Our State!

Oak Island pilot Jim Banky and his Bi-plane, Carolina Belle, are featured in an article by writer Jeri Rowe in the December issue of Our State Magazine:

With two wings and a wood propeller, the Carolina Belle takes people above the beach at Oak Island, giving ordinary pedestrians an extraordinary perspective.
Maybe it’s the view.

You’re flying 1,000 feet above Oak Island, and with the wind pinpricking your face, you look below and see skinny roads, a swath of shamrock green, and rows of houses no bigger than your thumbnail.

Beach blankets look like playing cards, and the Atlantic is one big painting full of greens and blues. Meanwhile, the Oak Island Pier — considered the tallest pier on the North Carolina coast at 27 feet above sea level — is as long and slender as a popsicle stick.

After a shower scrubs the sky, you can see clear to Georgetown, South Carolina. But on this particular Saturday, after weeks of no rain, the horizon is the color of expired milk, and you see only a few miles in any direction.
But the sights you see — even for a few miles — make you think like a kid again.

The Cape Fear River is a twisting snake of water; the Old Baldy lighthouse is Fred Flintstone’s upturned megaphone; and Fort Caswell is a three-walled sand castle in need of some shells, sticks, and saber-wielding soldiers three inches tall.

This pastiche of colors and shapes passing beneath you makes you think fondly of high school geometry — at least for a split second. But then, your adult self reels you in when you see some things the size of freckles on the beach.

They’re waving.

People. Yes, people. They see you, and you see them.

They hear the chug-chug-chug of your seven-cylinder engine high in the sky and look up to see a plane that’s been burned into their memory.

You’re in a biplane, 23 feet long, with a 30-foot wingspan and a 96-inch propeller made of wood. The model: WACO UPF-7, an acronym for the Waco Aircraft Company.

She comes from another era, another time: 1942, a trainer for young pilots in World War II. But today, she rests on her three wheels at the Cape Fear Regional Jetport, a small airstrip beside the Intracoastal Waterway at Oak Island.

She’s beautifully restored, a brilliant red with a curvaceous blonde in a black corset and black high heels painted near the propeller. That tells you her name.

She’s the Carolina Belle, owned by Jim and Laura Banky, husband and wife.

“I’m the Red Baron,” Jim says, “wherever I go.”

The gospel of an open cockpit

She does have some serious celebrity credibility, this Carolina Belle.

Watch the 2002 film Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and you’ll see her. She appears near the end of the film, flying above Burgaw and Buckner Hill Plantation, with Mahalia Jackson singing “Walk In Jerusalem” underneath the vroom of her engine.

Actress Ashley Judd sits in her cockpit beside a young girl. They’re looking over North Carolina, with Jackson’s steeple-rattling voice ringing in your ears.

“Isn’t it just like a fairyland,” Judd says from the cockpit. “Don’t we live in the most magical place? We’re like two angels up in the sky smiling down at all our friends.”

Laura Banky knows that scene, and she mentions it any time the phone rings and she hears skepticism, worry, or questions on the other end.

This particular Saturday is no exception.

“Biplane Rides, this is Laura. …

“Yes, it’s straight and level flying. No fancy maneuvers. You get to see all kinds of stuff from the air. Yes, it’s an open cockpit. The wind is blowing, but there is a windscreen, so it’s not right in your face. But it’s like riding a motorcycle in the sky.

“You know Ashley Judd? … She rode in this biplane in the movie. That’s right — Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Tell them that. That always helps. I mean, if Ashley Judd can fly in it, anybody can.

“So, we’ll be here. Keep working on them.”

Laura hangs up. It’s a little after 2 p.m. She’s getting busy.

‘Keep that little red plane flying’

Laura and Jim operate Suncoast Aviation out of Cape Fear Regional Jetport and offer scenic rides on the Carolina Belle. It costs $120 for a 20- to 25-minute ride over the marshes and beaches, lighthouses and shoals of Oak and Bald Head islands.
They’re not getting rich on this scenic-ride business. So Jim works as an aviation and power-plant technician, and Laura works as an office manager for a certified public accountant.

But the Carolina Belle is their passion. Jim and Laura bought the Carolina Belle eight years ago and operated their business out of Venice, Florida, and Skaneateles, New York, Jim’s hometown, where he’s known as “Sky Banky.”

Five years ago, following the suggestion of a flying friend, they moved to Oak Island. At first, they lived in a trailer at the airport. Today, they live 13 miles away on four acres in the town of Bolivia, surrounded by live oaks, cedar trees, and the sounds of whippoorwills, owls, and their two dogs, Mini and Opie.

From April to October, weather permitting, Jim can do as many as 50 flights in a week. So during his busy season, he sometimes has to employ a part-timer.

On many weekends, though, you’ll find Jim and Laura. They’ll be in their old trailer that sits beside the chain-link fence off N.C. Highway 133. A laminated movie poster of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is out for any customer to see.

In black ink on the movie poster, they’ve circled the Carolina Belle. It’s flying above the poster’s big sunflower. A banner outside hangs from the fence and reads, “Bi-Plane Rides.” But the real attention getter is out front, shiny as a fire truck.
The Carolina Belle.

Laura is the ground crew, Jim is the pilot, and together they create memories for many interested in sightseeing at 1,000 feet.
Through the years, Jim has collected his share of stories.

Flip through the two-inch photo album the Bankys keep, and you’ll see Tommy, a kid who lived in Venice, Florida. He’d hear the chug-chug-chug of the Carolina Belle overhead and point skyward, saying to everyone within earshot, “Hey, there is Jim! Everybody wave!”

Or you’ll see George, the federal judge from Florida. He renewed his marriage vows in the Carolina Belle. He handed Jim a script and told him to read it over the radio.

“You can do it,’’ he reassured Jim. “You’re the captain of the ship!’’

Or you’ll read a letter from Ken, the World War II veteran. He flew a WACO UPF-7 back in September 1942. He detailed that experience in a five-paragraph letter. He ended his letter with this line: “Keep that little red plane flying.’’

Jim has.

“Part of the reason I love to fly is every time you fly, you’re learning something new,” he says. “The second part of the equation is that when I take someone who is absolutely scared to fly, I’ll take them up, and afterward, I’ll watch them get out with a big grin on their face. It’s pretty neat.”

Born love
Jim always loved flying. As a kid in Skaneateles, he’d ride his bike to the local airport and hang by the fence watching the planes take off and land.

But he never thought of himself as a pilot. He figured planes were too expensive, too time consuming, too out of reach. So, he became a fixer.

At age 8, he took apart a clock to see how it worked. At age 11, he started working on his uncle’s farm, earning $2 a day as he tinkered with every kind of engine, from trucks to tractors.

By age 17, he became a mechanic and later a cross-country trucker. In 1982, his trucking job brought him to a country music club called Doc Holliday’s in Louisville, Kentucky, where he spotted a well-dressed, pretty girl at a nearby table.
He asked her to dance. That was Laura.

They’ve been married since 1988. In the early 1990s, Laura saw her husband fall in love with flight when he flew a Cessna with a trained pilot. The pilot told Jim he did well.

“Did you hear what he said?” Jim told Laura. “He said I did a good job.”

Jim got his pilot’s license in 1996 and became enamored with old planes. He dreamed of buying a Lockheed 12, the sleek, twin-engine plane that appeared at the end of the 1942 classic Casablanca.

He didn’t. Instead, he found her.

The Carolina Belle. Or really, the Red Baron.

Magic in those wings

Whatever name she goes by, that biplane must have some kind of inexplicable draw. Sit there on a Saturday afternoon at the Cape Fear Regional Jetport, and see the people marvel.

There’s the woman in the head scarf. She’s going through chemotherapy. She knocks on the trailer door, meets Laura outside, and says, “Can old, fat people get in there? It would be something I would really like to do.’’

Or the retired cotton buyer from Sanford. He comes with a gift certificate in hand — and his wife, a retired teacher, by his side — and says after their flight, “It’s like sitting in a lawn chair. Some great views.”

Or the woman from Asheboro. She volunteers that her mother always exclaimed, “You’re not going to get me in no plane!’’ The woman is in her late 50s. This is her third flight — ever.

Twenty minutes or so later, the Carolina Belle taxis in. The woman, with her boyfriend by her side holding her hand, gives a thumbs-up and yells, “I didn’t want to come back! I wanted to keep going!”

Like many customers Jim and Laura see, she faced her fears — and won. And when that happens, Jim repeats a line he heard from Laura’s brother long ago.

It seems appropriate.

“Those who are afraid to die,” he tells the couple, “will never truly live.”

Jim is now 55; Laura 58. They see their Carolina Belle, their Red Baron, as their therapy. It takes them and their customers above the tree line to a place where piers are small, people are smaller, and Georgetown is a distant spot you see farther south — if you’re lucky.

It’s a place where the only sound you hear is the throaty burr-raw of the engine and the tinny squawk from your headphones as Jim, in his aviator goggles and cloth hat, points to the many sights passing below.

There’s Old Baldy. There’s the Oak Island Lighthouse. There’s Battery Island. And there’s the Frying Pan Shoals, the last resting place of more than 130 ships.

Ten minutes into the ride, you feel like a seagull, like an adventurer, and you realize, as you seemingly float on the precarious winds of the Atlantic, you don’t have a care in the world.

So, maybe, it is the views. Or, maybe, it’s something else.

“That old airplane,” Jim says, “has got magic in her.’’

Suncoast Aviation
?4091 Long Beach Road
?Oak Island, N.C. 28465?
(910) 279-9476
Jeri Rowe, a Greensboro resident, is a staff columnist with the News & Record.

• By Jeri Rowe
• Photography by Leslie Koehn

Frying Pan Shoals Tower To Be B&B

A man plans to turn an abandoned light tower off the North Carolina coast into a high-seas bed-and-breakfast.

50-year-old Richard Neal of Mint Hill bought the Frying Pan Shoals Light Tower in a federal government auction in May for $85,000.

Neal plans to turn the 44-year-old former U.S. Coast Guard post into a bed-and-breakfast. The tower is 25 miles from Wilmington and is more than 60 feet above the water. It has seven bedrooms, a kitchen, a recreation room and helicopter landing platform. The tower was built in 1966 and was deactivated in 2003. Read more

Sea Turtles

Here are three videos showing a Turtle laying eggs, eggs hatching and baby turtle making his (or her) way to the ocean! This time of year the Turtles are coming ashore at Oak Island to lay their eggs – you can help by observing the rules at the bottom of this page!

Sea turtle laying 209 eggs:

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Sea Turtles Hatching at Sunset Beach,NC during August, 2009 near midnight:

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A Sea Turtle makes his (or her) way to the ocean!:

You can help the turtles when you visit Sunset Beach by following a few simple guidelines:

Do Not Disturb: If you see an adult sea turtle coming on shore, stay quiet and keep your distance! Otherwise she may get scared and go back into the ocean without nesting. They are an endangered species and it is a federal offense to harass them.

Turn Off All Flashlights! Lights may scare or confuse the adult female and cause her to leave without nesting.

Lights Cause Hatchlings To Go In the Wrong Direction: Please turn off all outside lights each night. Also if there are curtains or blinds use them so your indoor lights do not lead the hatchlings away from the ocean.

Never Pick Up A Hatchling. It is critical that they crawl on their own.
Do Not Disturb The Nest Area. Watch for the nest markers.

Stay Off Sand Dunes & Do Not Pick Sea Oats. Sand dunes provide critical habitat for sea turtles and help prevent flooding during times of extreme tides and storms. Foot traffic kills plants and severely damages the sand dunes. The penalty for failure to adhere to this requirement is a $100 fine.

Help Us Keep Our Beaches Clean -Sea turtles may mistake a plastic bag or other forms of litter for a jellyfish (they eat them). All personal items and equipment must be removed from the beach each day- these items may trap a sea turtle.

Please Fill In All Holes On The Beach When Done Playing.- Holes can trap sea turtles and are a safety hazard to humans.

Keep Dogs On Leashes At All Times!- No dogs shall be permitted on the beach strand between the hours of 9:00am and 6:00pm during period of Memorial Day through Labor Day regardless of whether they are leashed or not.
Fireworks can scare off nesting sea turtles and leave behind trash that may be mistaken for food by marine wildlife.- Discharge of fireworks is not permitted per North Carolina state laws.

Please Report all sightings of nesting turtles, dead turtles, unmarked nests or crawls (looks like a bulldozer came out of the water).Call the Holden Beach Turtle Watch 24 Hour Pager at 910-754-0766

Keep up with the Turtle Watch by clicking here

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