Set your DVR for this documentary
Submitted by loftT on Sun, 07/05/2009 - 1:26pm
Ribbon of Sand will air on WUNC July 7th at 3:30 am. If you love the beaches and islands of NC you won't want to miss this beautifully filmed, narrated and scored natural history documentary produced by award-winning filmmaker John Grabowska (Crown of the Continent, Remembered Earth). The Washington Post calls the film "poetic...both intimate and sweeping."
Did you know the Outer Banks include 60 miles of natural barrier islands with no roads and only wild ponies living on them? Or that the estuaries and the salt marshes on our coast are one of the most productive and rare ecosystems on Earth?
Global warming will no doubt change these places but change is the name of the game for an island. The wild islands have a much better chance of surviving what's to come than those of overdeveloped, populated and "protected" with hardened beach structures...
as anyone would know if they stood in the surf and watched the sand shift around their own feet.
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We will tape this on DVR
We love the Outer Banks. Absolutely love them. Thanks for putting it on my calendar for me. :D
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My old geology professor, Orrin Pilkey, often bemoaned the stupidity of building on the barrier islands. He called it an exercise in planned obsolescence, since anything built there—and especially a typical stick/frame house—would come down with a good storm.