Our Brands:

On a normal day we have no less than 1,200 pairs of sunglasses on display. This makes The Sunglass Shop on Ocracoke the largest independently owned shop east of Raleigh, NC, south of Virginia Beach, VA and north of Myrtle Beach, SC.

Maui Jim, Costa del Mar, Ray-Ban and the new Revo's with Oakley lenses are our premier brands and they make up more than 40% of our inventory. We also carry Native, Suncloud, Fossil, Live Eyewear, Chili's, Pepper's and Croakies. We strive to have the highest quality, most technical lenses on the market.

Take Costa del Mar, for an example. Their patented 580nm glass lens blocks the light that falls around 580 nanometers in the light spectrum. 580nm is where nasty yellow light lives. And many people's eyes have difficulty processing yellow light. With the yellow filtered out, the lenses turn up the visual volume of the red, blue and greens. The results give you sharper contrast, better definition and enhanced colors in any environment.

Costa del Mar has bragging rights going back to 1983 when NOAA selected them to be their "official" supplier of polarized sunglasses. And Costa del Mar provided the sunglasses for the Costeau Society and the crews of Calypso. It's a harsh world outside.

And we want you to, as Costa's motto goes: "see what's out there". By the way, The Sunglass Shop on Ocracoke has the largest selection of Costa del Mar 400 and 580 glass lenses and styles on the OBX. We are always on the lookout for high quality, technical lenses.