If the beach is your thing then the best beaches in the world are from Pensacola to Destin on the Gulf Coast. The outer banks of North Carolina don't come close.
There's people on Florida's beaches. Find a place to pull off the road about halfway between the ferry landing and Ocracoke village and you can see the Atlantic coast like Columbus found it. There's nobody on Ocracoke Island except for the residents of the village,..and 99% of the people who vacation there don't venture more than a mile north of the village.
The barrier island is about 16 miles long and if you check out any beach area a few miles up the road from the village you're probably not even going to see any footprints.
A lot of North Carolina's Outer Banks are like that. There's quite a few more people out there than there was back when I first started visiting back in the 70's,..but there's still long stretches of secluded National Seashore between Oregon Inlet and Ocracoke village.
