Posted By: seagirt
OBX - 01/04/04 07:14 PM
Hey everyone!
Just spent a week on the Outer Banks for New Year's...
We took a drive down the coast...the Isabel damage is amazing. Houses swept off piles...the decimated Hatteras Cabanas...other motels lying on their side with walls missing so you can see inside the rooms...and the drive over the breach was moving. The pavement is black as Bodie's lantern after the rebuilding.
That's right. To all my observations, the light at Bodie Island, NC is dark.
I couldn't see the large Fresnel lens glowing. We drove by the light in the dark on the way back up to Corolla, and I could see the faint outline of the tower, but no light above it. Anyone know about this?
There's also a new boardwalk at Ocracoke over the old trail...ruins the old photo chances with the fence without getting the planks in there (though some of our Master Photographers may be able to do it). And I got my first nighttime shots of Hatteras, or any light for that matter, at a loo break at the visitors center.
Also, I had a fun time mailing myself postcards from all the lighthouses on the banks. Not just shove 'em all in one mailbox..no, that would be too easy. Instead, I put the Currituck one in the mailbox in Corolla, the Bodie one was shipped out of Nags Head, Hatteras will arrive from Buxton, and Ocracoke from, well, Ocracoke. Of course, there is a chance they will all end up with a postmark from some sorting center or something, but I'll take that chance. Look for something on this in the postcard forum.
All in all, lots of fun...can't wait to go back (next time is our 10th!)
Just spent a week on the Outer Banks for New Year's...
We took a drive down the coast...the Isabel damage is amazing. Houses swept off piles...the decimated Hatteras Cabanas...other motels lying on their side with walls missing so you can see inside the rooms...and the drive over the breach was moving. The pavement is black as Bodie's lantern after the rebuilding.
That's right. To all my observations, the light at Bodie Island, NC is dark.
I couldn't see the large Fresnel lens glowing. We drove by the light in the dark on the way back up to Corolla, and I could see the faint outline of the tower, but no light above it. Anyone know about this?
There's also a new boardwalk at Ocracoke over the old trail...ruins the old photo chances with the fence without getting the planks in there (though some of our Master Photographers may be able to do it). And I got my first nighttime shots of Hatteras, or any light for that matter, at a loo break at the visitors center.
Also, I had a fun time mailing myself postcards from all the lighthouses on the banks. Not just shove 'em all in one mailbox..no, that would be too easy. Instead, I put the Currituck one in the mailbox in Corolla, the Bodie one was shipped out of Nags Head, Hatteras will arrive from Buxton, and Ocracoke from, well, Ocracoke. Of course, there is a chance they will all end up with a postmark from some sorting center or something, but I'll take that chance. Look for something on this in the postcard forum.
All in all, lots of fun...can't wait to go back (next time is our 10th!)