PLAN TO SPEND THE DAY at Corolla's Currituck Heritage Park, where there's something for the whole family. History buffs should enjoy touring the historic Whalehead Club, a magnificent, refurbished soundside mansion built in the 1920s.

By JEFF HAMPTON By Jeff Hampton The Virginian-Pilot corolla A great blue heron stood motionless waiting to strike a meal in the shallow water. A red-winged blackbird perched on a cattail blurted a shrill call. An osprey soared overhead.

By JEFF HAMPTON By Jeff Hampton The Virginian-Pilot An exclusive rehabilitation center proposed for Corolla has local residents protesting a facility they believe could attract drug and sex addicts to the Outer Banks resort town.

Corolla is home to Currituck Heritage Park, a soundfront spread that includes the Whalehead Club, Currituck Beach Lighthouse and the Outer Banks Center for Wildlife Education. It's a day-trip waiting to happen, with lots of family-type opportunities.

n British Cemetery. The cemetery is home to the graves of four British crewmen, two known and two unknown, from the HMS Bedfordshire. The converted 162-foot trawler was torpedoed off the Carolina coast by U-558, a German submarine, in May 1942, during World War II. N.C. 12 in Ocracoke. Free.