MORE OF TRIP TO DUCK N.C.

The Currituck Lighthouse located about twenty miles north of Duck N.C. in Corolla N.C. It has 214 steps to the top and of course we climbed to the top. The lighthouse was built in 1873 and is brick construction.
When built it finished the lighting of the Outer Banks from Cape Henry to the north and Bodie Island to the south. The beacon still shines today but is controlled by a computer not by a lighthouse keeper.




The happy couple at the top!!!


The Atlantic ocean is behind me.

Currituck Sound and the N.C. mainland is behind Nancy. If you look close you can see the Whalehead club near the small lake slightly to the right of Nancy. Mr.Edward Collings Knight Jr.bought land that sprawled from the Atlantic Ocean to Currituck Sound and built this mansion as a hunting club.



This picture shows why we like the Outer banks. The beaches are kept in a more natural state than the tourist beaches of south Fl.

A lonely beach walk but we enjoy the serenity of the experience.

It was a cold morning at the beach.

I hope to have wet your appetite to try the less crowed beaches of the Outer Banks. It was in the eighties during the day about sixty five at night and yet they called it the off season.