Tuesday catch-up

Hi! If you are reading my vacation blog regularly, you will notice that I skipped Tuesday night - not by choice. Edward's of Ocracoke supposedly had WI-FI but I believe the weather was conflicting with being able to find the connection! Oh, well ... that was not the only thing that was changed about our Tuesday, due to the weather.

Our day began at a highly recommended cafe, not far from the hotel restaurant. My seafood omelet was great, the wait staff was not! But we were determined not to let it affect our day.

After breakfast we headed out to Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, only to discover that the weather was preventing visitors from stepping out onto the view platform of the lighthouse. (The winds were blowing with gusts to 50 mph, so it probably would not have been a good idea) NPS said we could climb the light - 268 steps - but we chose not to, since we couldn't see anything but the inside of the tower when we got to the top! I guess I will have to leave that challenge for another day! We did watch an amazing film about the even more amazing feat of MOVING the light house a half mile in land (it happened in 1999)

We continued our adventure south on NC 12 through Frisco and Hatteras Village to the Hatteras Ocracoke Ferry. The Ferry carries 30 cars (we were about # 28) and took about 40 very windy minutes to get us across the inlet. Ocracoke Island can only be reached by BOAT! No bridge!