Occasional Travels

North Carolina's Outer Banks
June 2006

It was a perfect day for the Sunday afternoon drive from Norfolk, Virginia, to Nag's Head on North Carolina's Outer Banks. The family reunion in a very large beach house was a fine gathering of the clan.

During our stay, we also visited historic Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kitty Hawk.

On the road to the Outer Banks	June 2006 gas prices	Kitty Hawk, NC, road sign
Big Dog	Getting close!	View south from sand berm
View north from sand berm	Vacation House	Protected by the sand berm
Living Room	First Morning's Breakfast	Pool
View toward Inland Waterway	Looking south from balcony patio	Captain's Quarters
Captain's Quarters	Captain's Quarters	On the water
Looking north from beach	Nag's Head water tower	Popular for kite flying
Beach-goers	Giant sandbags	Door to nowhere?
Passing summer squall	Passing summer squall	Sun again
State liquor store	Old pier	Old pier

	Cape Hatteras
Cape Hatteras National Seashore	Road to Cape Hatteras	Road to Cape Hatteras
Road to Cape Hatteras	Vacation homes	Vacation homes
Vacation homes	Need a boat?	Campsite Billboard
"Froggy Dog" Restaurant	O2BONOBX license plate	Cape Hatteras entrance
	Lighthouse in the distance	Distant lighthouse
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse	Cape Hatteras Lighthouse	Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Lighthouse entrance	Looking up at lighthouse	How they relocated the lighthouse
"Life at the Light"	Lightkeepers' houses	The Lighthouse
Lighthouse museum exhibit	Lighthouse museum exhibit	World War II U-Boat "Torpedo Alley"
Stories of "Torpedo Alley" during WW II	Civil War exhibit	U-boat hatch
Long shot of lighthouse	Closer look at lighthouse	Lighthouse base
Distinctive "swirl"	Nice haircut!	USS Monitor marker
Diamond Shoals marker	Lonely lighthouse	Back at the house
Outer Banks Afternoon

	Off to Kitty Hawk
Car from Beaufort, SC	NPS Kitty Hawk	Wright Brothers Memorial at Kitty Hawk
Where the first flights occurred	Kitty Hawk plaque	Wright Brothers Memorial
Wright Brothers Memorial	Wright Brothers Memorial	Wright Brothers Memorial
Wright Brothers Memorial	View from memorial	Wright Brothers Memorial
Wright Brothers Memorial	Wright Brothers Memorial	Wright Brothers Memorial
Information plaque	Distant memorial	Information plaque
Information plaque	Structures built for centennial of flight	Information plaque
Information plaque	25th Anniversary marker	Sue in front of Workshop
Reconstructed living quarters	Information plaque	Centennial survey marker
First flight distance marker	Second flight distance marker	Third flight distance marker
Fourth flight distance marker	Information plaque	Replica inside the museum
Replica inside the museum	US Army pilots who were first to circumnavigate the world	Charles Lindbergh
Donald Douglas	Replica inside the museum	Replica inside the museum
Vintage sewing machine	Description of Wright Flyer reproduction	Louis Bleriot
Wright Brothers propeller	"Success!" telegram sent home to Ohio	Engine block
Museum exhibit	Museum exhibit	The Wright Brothers
Memorial in the mist	Outer Banks in the early 1900s	Solar panels
Obligatory rental car shot	Hopeful surfers	Front of vacation house

Winding down the week
Early morning	Early morning	Early morning mist
Kids in the pool	The Sun appears	Beach day
Another beautiful day	Clearing inland

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