Charlie "Mac", the driver of the Ocracoke-Hatteras mail truck, boards the Hatteras Inlet ferry at the northern most tip of Ocracoke Island. He has some ten miles of sand dunes and beach to cross from Ocracoke village to the ferry.
The Hatteras Inlet ferry coming into the northern most tip of Ocracoke Island. Some ten miles of sand flats and dunes separate the ferry landing from the village of Ocracoke which is clustered around Silver Lake, an inlet from Pamlico Sound.