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Recently we sold our home in town, so this beach house is a bit 
unusual in that we have furnished it with our antiques and now it is 
our full time residence. We live outside as much as possible--using 
the beach in our front yard, relaxing on the two hammocks, or 
sunset/ocean viewing from the upper deck. The upper deck allows us 
to have 360 degree view of the island! The main level has a large 
kitchen/living room area with sliding glass doors on the south and 
east side facing the ocean. There a master bedroom, bath room, and 
Marie's "zen room" for reading and relaxing. The bottom level has a 
den/music room with piano, another bedroom, Stan's study, and a 
garage with plenty of beach equipment and two great bikes for riding 
on the pathways in the area. There is also an outside 
shower/dressing room. The house has never been rented. We do not 
smoke and would like to exchange with non-smokers. The neighborhood 
is somewhat unusual in that many on our street live here full-time, 
or use this as their summer home. There are almost no rentals on our 
street!

Fireplace, garage, ocean steps from your door, hammocks, deck 
furniture, beach equipment, bikes, 3 TV's, VCR, DVD, stained glass 
doors and windows.  We would consider a car exchange as well.  

This is a lazy, family beach with none of the hipe of larger resort 
areas. We can stroll to the only fishing pier on the island, tennis 
courts, the grocery store, movie theater, local tourist shops, 
restaurants, several coffee shops,and an exercise gym. Our son 
caught a 46 pound mackerel from that pier the first year we bought 
our beach house! There is golfing, surfing on the beach in front of 
us, sailboating, windsurfing, minature golfing, waterslides, several 
uninhabitated islands, Kitty Hawk, and Historic New Bern within a 
short drive.  We are right next to a public walkway to the beach. 
The street our house sits on is unusual in that there is only one 
rental house. The others are owned by full time residents or people 
who keep a second home just for themselves. It is very quiet and 
peaceful.

Stan and I are non-smoking retired educators who can travel any time 
of the year. We like to exercise daily and are vegetarians. Marie 
was a middle school and high school counselor, and Stan was head of 
the Humanities Department at the local college. We come from very 
different backgrounds: a farm girl from Ohio and a city boy reared 
in the cultural center of Boston. Retiring on the Outer Banks near 
our two grown children and three small grandchildren, we have lived 
and worked for 30 years in North Carolina. We love to spend quality 
time with our family, engulf ourselves in the beauty of nature, lose 
ourselves reading a good novel, and attend classical music concerts 
or the theater.