My trip seemed so short! I need more...and it ended up being the hottest week since August of last year UGH! But we made as much lemonade as we could by enjoying the scenery around us.
We shot over the Intracoastal Atlantic Waterway it appeared to disappear into the horizon.
But actually this bridge, Lindsay Warren Bridge, goes over the Alligator River! It's 4.54 kilometers or 2.82 miles in length!
We passed through Roanoke Island, and then onto the spits and islands of the Outer Banks and the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
from the campground
We decided not to tour the lighthouse, cause we had a great view of it from our campsite, but we did take a closer look
We had planned to camp so even tho it was HOT the WIND was constant so as long as we created some shade and found some ice cream shoppes we were fine! We camped at Cape Point CG. Its a National Parks run CG and its a first come first serve self check in. The other 'reservable" campgrounds were crowded. There is Oregon Inlet, Frisco, and Okracoke. The Cape Point CG has 200 sites and we were one of 3 there! SO we had the privacy we wanted the shade was in short supply tho.
The draw is the beach, its not right next to the point so we drove about 1/4 mile to the public access point, there is a lot of 4 x 4 ing on these beaches (no ATV's)...so that creates DEEP sand...as hot as cooking oil and the surf was rough ,we did get a nice sunburn when we played in the surf..Casey did NOT like his cloth crate and eventually destroyed it! ;o/
beach life
Pea Island next
PEACE
Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do the thing you think you can not.
We Just loved that area on our trip up the East Coast. Got such a kick out of seeing the Oregon Inlet so far from our Oregon home. We camped right in that area somewhere, but in an RV Park . Loved the lighthouses, also didn't climb (I bet that doesn't surprise you). Thanks for the great write up and pictures ..,and the memories!
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