Hadley is an Outer Banks native, growing up in Duck and now residing in Corolla village. Hadley graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BS in Environmental Science in 2003. Since then you may have seen her teaching at the Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education or walking barefoot with her yellow lab around the village. She started up Coastal Explorations in 2008 and has been busy getting people on the water ever since!

Simon is an undergraduate at James Madison University studying geology. He loves to travel, fish, hike, camp…all that good stuff. If he’s not in the water swimming with our baby ducks, he’ll be on the water kayaking with our guests! This is his second year working with Coastal Explorations!

Anne is studying Sport and Exercise Psychology at West Virginia University. She loves the snow and the sand and meeting new people. Though she is away from the mountains this summer she always remembers to keep it “Wild and Wonderful”!! Anne will be guiding for her second summer at Coastal Explorations!
ps – hi mom!

Cricker is our resident hippy: happy, free-spirited, shaggy-haired, and barefoot! When he’s not traveling the country in his Volkswagon bus, he spends his summer here working and playing on the water. Also a second year paddler, he’s loving the time on the water!

Max is a born and bred Kitty Hawk native and will be captaining many of the boat trips and crabbing charters! He is always out and about either fishing, hunting, boating, surfing, or spear-fishing. If you came out with us on a boat tour last year, you’ll probably get the pleasure of having Max as your captain again!