This is the scrapblog scrapbook I made of our trip to Ocracoke Island last year - a couple pages are from Hatteras Island (but the challenge to climb Cape Hatteras also is playing a major role in our choice of the OBX)
This is the tallest BRICK lighthouse, Cape Hatteras Light, ever constructed in the US - 204 feet at the lookout platform. It has 268 steps inside, which I am determined to MASTER this year (in case you didn't know it - I am AFRAID of heights!) We have at least 4 days to visit and possibly climb the light - one day during the first week while Pat & Dick Kirkingburg are with us (Mike's sister and brother in law), and 3 more days the second week, while staying at the Lighthouse View in Buxton. (the name of the hotel is a stretch - you can't really see the tower, but you can see the light at night!)
The beaches on Ocracoke are absolutely fabulous and DESERTED this early in the season. I have no desire to swim in the ocean, but I love to walk in the edge of the water on a clean, sandy beach - looking for shells, following the birds, just enjoying the sand, water and salty air! I can't wait to see this beach again - and neither can Melvin, the moose. He insists that he will be traveling with us as well!
Although the Ocracoke Lighthouse is not the most impressive one in the OBX, it is the oldest in continuous service!
We didn't get to sail on the Schooner Windfall last year - the weather didn't cooperate! This year we have 7 nights to try for a SUNSET SAIL - it's just too classic "Red sails in the sunset!"
Can't wait for dinner at Howard's Pub - and to be driven home on the electric golf cart! Mike is also packing a Texas license plate as well as a Colorado one to attach to the wall in the Pub - they have a collection!
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