Sunday June 14th to Tuesday June 16th, 2009 34 37.693N 076 32.811W
We had some rain and thunder after we got the anchor down inside the bight at Cape Lookout, and had an early night after our long overnight voyage from Georgetown.
Monday morning, we launched the dinghy and headed for the light- house, and wonderful structure painted with large black and white diamonds. It was interesting to tour the old keepers' cottages and learns about the history of the area from the rangers at this lovely National Park. We could not go up the light house. It was interesting to see on the park rules that shelling was limited to one two-gallon bucket of shells per person per day. When we walked over to the ocean beach, there were a few folks
fishing from the beach, and one lady shelling with a five-gallon bucket. After lunch we explored more of the bight-area of the shore. The beach was full of shells! The area behind the bird-nesting sign was all shells!
As you can imagine, I was able to add a few more treasures to my collection.
There were less than a dozen boats in the anchorage, and there would have been room for a hundred or more. We loved this place. It was North Carolina's version of the Bahamas - deep, clean water, good holding, sand beaches, not too many people. At dusk, we even saw some of the wild horses grazing on the beach of the Shackleford Banks to our north.
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