Arriving back home on the "Dolphin" , the daily mail boat from Atlantic, a mother with her children and day's shopping and another mother with her child and her new baby carried by the grandmother. There is neither doctor nor hospital in Ocracoke and new arrivals such as this one are born at hospitals on the mainland.
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 Captain of the "Dolphin" , the daily mail boat from Atlantic, NC aside from mail the "Dolphin" carries a few passengers, light freight and foodstuffs ordered by islanders.