HATTERAS ISLAND · WAVES & RODANTHE · SOUND + OCEAN
Cape HatterasWAIST-DEEP FOR MILES
The tri-village strip where American kiteboarding lives: Watermen's Retreat sits directly beside REAL Watersports with private access to the butter-flat REAL Slick, and a mile north the Waves Village resort hosts the Kitty Hawk Kites school steps from the Pamlico Sound shallows. Ocean waves are a two-minute walk across NC-12.
Stay & learn on the spot
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Hotels on the water · 2 LIVE
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Watermen's Retreat
Sleep beside REAL Watersports with private access to the grassy launch and the dead-flat Slick — penthouses to cabanas, kitchens, gear storage, bar deck.
Launch
PRIVATE · REAL'S GRASS
The Slick
AT THE DOOR
Spot view
YES
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Waves Village Watersports Resort
Soundfront 3-bedroom family condos with the Kitty Hawk Kites school on the property: gear up steps from the shallows, hot tub afterwards.
School
ON THE PROPERTY
Condos
3BR · HOT TUBS
Spot view
YES
Kite schools on the beach · 2 LIVE
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Kitty Hawk Kites Kiteboarding School
KHK's kite school at the Waves Village resort: check in, gear up, learn steps from the waist-deep Sound. Lessons March to November.
From the condos
0 M · SAME PROPERTY
Season
MAR-NOV
Water
WAIST-DEEP
Cape Hatteras in motion ▶ YOUTUBE
7-day wind forecast
SPOT: PAMLICO SOUND AT WAVES (REAL SLICK) · UPDATED DAILY
Pamlico Sound at Waves (REAL Slick) · Cape Hatteras STATIC · OPEN-METEO · SYNCED 20.07
TODAY
20.07
34KTS · GUST 40
SW · 6m
STRONG TUE
21.07
29KTS · GUST 38
SSW · 6m
STRONG WED
22.07
29KTS · GUST 37
SSW · 6m
STRONG THU
23.07
28KTS · GUST 35
N · 6m
STRONG FRI
24.07
20KTS · GUST 21
NE · 9m
GO SAT
25.07
23KTS · GUST 24
NNE · 9m
GO SUN
26.07
19KTS · GUST 22
N · 10m
GO GO 16–24 kts · OK 12–15 · STRONG 25+ · LIGHT <12 — Open-Meteo data, cached & rewritten nightly by the agent as static HTML.
The Kitesurf Camp verdict Nowhere else do a dead-flat slick, a sound you can stand in for miles and an ocean wave beach share one parking lot. Waves and Rodanthe are the rare American answer to Dakhla: sleep on the launch, pick your water by mood.
Spot spec sheet
CHECKED NIGHTLY BY THE AGENT · REV 07.20
Wind
SW thermal summers, NE systems spring/fall, 20s-30s mph avgBIG DAYS 40+
Water
Pamlico Sound: waist-deep flats for milesBEGINNER HEAVEN
The Slick
Dead-flat water behind an L-shaped island at REAL
Season
March → November prime, Jun-Jul most consistent
Ocean side
Wave riding 2 min across NC-12
Watch out
Hurricane season Aug-Sep; NPS rules in the Seashore
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