We left Virginia Beach Saturday morning to get to the Oregon Inlet Campground. I saw a few windmills and a couple sabals before hitting the bridge. Not very many palms at all however until within 30 minutes of getting to the bridge to Kitty Hawk. Due to our close proximity to the road, I couldn't get any good pictures of anything besides this Sabal outside a car dealership.After crossing the bridge I saw a few nicer looking palmettos, pindos and windmills. We drove the road through the beach houses. most of the "yards" were pure sand with a couple houses having slanted pine trees, dune-grass or the occasional native Yucca. A while down the road we found some houses with grassy lawns. The only palms I saw were 2 pindos and a few sabals and windmills. This house had quite a few planted palmettos.. Looks like most made it after 2017-18. I saw this other established Sabal palmetto next to a pindo a few blocks from the ocean in Kitty Hawk.
This one was in Nags Head on the main beach side street.
Once we got to Oregan Inlet, the campground was full. We decided to drive another hour south to Cape Hatteras. En route we stopped in Salvo for some pictures at an abandoned go-cart park. The sabals here have been here around 15-20 years and get no maintenance or care. While some died due to bad winters, others had nice crowns and are seeding and producing volunteer seedlings everywhere.
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I saw more volunteers in a wooded area across the street and it almost looked like they were native.
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