Author: Stan Deatherage | Published: December 30th, 2009

North Carolina's Outer Banks Again: Destination - Cape Hatteras Light Station

    Living less than an hour and fifty minutes from Nags Head, my staging area to the National Seashore, I am regularly drawn to the beauty of one of the most beautiful and unspoiled seashores on eastern coast of the United States of America. On this quick trip to the seashore, my wife would not accompany me. I was alone, but I would be undeterred.

    On that fine spring morning, after a beautiful sunrise and with the early morning thunderheads threatening, I would leave for Cape Hatteras. It was my destination and I was determined to brave the inclement weather to climb to the top balcony ringing the light house at the Cape.


    Early sunrise in Nags Head: above. Later sunrise at the same locale: Below.


    As I headed south down NC Hwy. 12 in my Mustang, the convertible top down and James Taylor’s “Sweet Baby James” singing sweetly and loudly all about me, I drove in and out rain of showers, stopping just north of Bodie Island Light Station to put my top up. With some measure of rain in the back seat, I stopped at the ongoing renovation of the Oregon Inlet Life Saving Station to put the top down a second time to let the moisture evaporate.


    And evaporate it did, as the clouds began to break ever so slightly as I headed south to the next of many stops to enjoy the peak-a-boo warmth of the springtime sun, the aroma of the sea and the sweeping grandeur of the geological oddity: North Carolina's Outer Banks.


    The clouds are still thick with rain at the next stop east of the lakes in Pea Island Wildlife Refuge: above. Map of the day trip to Cape Hatteras: below.

Click on the map for a much larger look at the Outer Banks and Eastern North Carolina.

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