Perhaps you are some who loves the beach, and each year you make a pilgrimage to the Carolina coast. If you go to the northern Outer Banks, much of the focus is on the beach. If you happen to visit the southern Outer Banks (SOBX) from Cape Lookout south, you will eventually notice small white poles which appear to be in random patterns in the sounds.
Actually the little white poles are PVC pipes that local boaters use to mark either channels that get them to deeper water or dangerous objects in the water.
It is interesting that the same thing can be used to mark a path to safety or an oyster rock that could seriously damage your boat.
So how do you the tell the difference between the safe path and the oyster rock.
Actually it is quite simple, a roughly parallel grouping of PVC pipes that form two lines is a path to a dock or deeper water.
However, a single pole somewhere in a body of water is likely to mark a navigational hazard.
As is always the case, when you are in strange waters proceed slowly and with caution no matter kind of pole you see.
The example pictured in the post is the path out of Bluewater Cove to the White Oak River.
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