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MANNS HARBOR — The air is turning cooler and the kids are back in school, and that means it’s time for the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Ocracoke Ferry routes to make their annual transition to off-season schedules on Sept. 14.

The schedules, beginning Tuesday, are as follows:

·      Cedar Island to Ocracoke: 7:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 4 p.m.

·      Ocracoke to Cedar Island: 7:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m.

·      Swan Quarter to Ocracoke: 10 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m.

·      Ocracoke to Swan Quarter: 10 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m.

·      Hatteras to Ocracoke: 5 a.m., 6 a.m., 7 a.m., 8 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., noon, 1 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 5 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m., midnight.

·      Ocracoke to Hatteras: 4:30 a.m., 6:30 a.m., 7:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m.,11:30 a.m., noon, 12:30 p.m., 1 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9 p.m., 9:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m., midnight.

The Cedar Island and Swan Quarter routes will remain on these schedules through the offseason. The Hatteras route will remain on its fall schedule until switching to a full winter schedule on Nov. 2.