On Sunday, two coworkers and I drove down to the Outer Banks in North Carolina to Cape Hatteras. I have done this trip twice before. It was a great day for a road trip. The sun was out with the temp at about 65.
We did not stop at the Wright Memorial in Kitty Hawk. I have been there before and everyone else was too cheap to pay $4 to enter.
We did stop at the Bodie Island light. When we left there and got on the main road, we past something on the road. We turned around and there in the road, moving slowly across it, was a l
arge Timber Rattlesnake. It was about 4 ft long and
very thick in the middle. We could not tell if
it had been run over or just cold, but it took quite a
while to crawl into the brush.
Cape Hatteras light was spetacular as always. It is the tallest lighthouse in North America at 208 feet. Built in 1870, it's location was being eroded away by the sea. So in 1999, it was moved 2900 feet to a location farther way from the ocean.
Hatteras Lighthouse
The stairs in the Lighthouse
The path that the Lighthouse moved
Bodie Island light
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