I’m feeling like I’m a bit of a broken record…today was another AMAZING day!
Addie and I left Kill Devil Hills to travel southward on HWY 12 to experience the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. So many awesome sights! We stopped at Bodie Lighthouse, Oregon Inlet, Cape Hatteras, and Ocracoke Island. Climbing all lighthouses ceased last Monday, the end of the official “season.”
Interestingly, although I had to wait 2.5 hours for the ferry from Hatteras to Ocracoke, it didn’t feel like a long time. I walked, chatted with people, and wandered through the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum. During the hour long ferry ride, I talked with a woman from North Carolina, who gave me a great recommendation for dinner (locally caught mackerel). I’m finding North Carolinians to be very polite, nice, and helpful.
Bodie Island Lighthouse. Built 1872, still functioning.
Looking up Bodie Lighthouse.
Oregon Inlet is an inlet along North Carolina’s Outer Banks. It joins the Pamlico Sound with the Atlantic Ocean and separates Bodie Island from Pea Island, which are connected by the 2.8 mile Marc Basnight Bridge that spans the inlet.
This historic structure at the southern end of Oregon Inlet is an original U.S. Life-Saving station, (and later Coast Guard station), that was built in 1898.
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Built 1870, the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States and measures 198.49 feet from the bottom of the foundation to the top of the pinnacle of the tower.
Addie patiently waiting for the ferry from Hatteras to Ocracoke. Did I mention this ferry is FREE?!
Video of Hatteras from the ferry (click on the photo to view the 11 second video).
On the ferry.
Ocracoke Lighthouse. Built 1823, 75 feet tall, still functioning.
Sunset from SMacNally’s Bar & Grill in Ocracoke.
