Now things are starting to get bit more exciting.....here we are driving down the highway just minding our own business and over the radio, we get this strange "alarm" sound....."What could that Be?" we ask amongst us. We find out shortly that this is a Tornado warning system. I guess the conditions were right for tornados and here we are! The winds were howling and at times, we almost had to pull over to the side of the road due to the amount of rain that was falling! Incredible forces at work.....
We stopped at the visitor center as soon as we got over the bridges to the outer banks and spoke with a fellow who seemed a little nonchalant about the whole deal....he actually commented that over the water, the tornados are waterspouts and they are "really cool to watch". We did not see any over the next few days on the Cape, but we were NOT sorry to leave the wind behind. It blew hard for three days here as evidenced by the number of Kite Boarders we saw at times!
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was great, however we could not climb and go out at the top as the winds were too strong and the Park would not allow it.....starting to sound like a broken record, but, "We may have to come back....".
We stopped at the visitor center as soon as we got over the bridges to the outer banks and spoke with a fellow who seemed a little nonchalant about the whole deal....he actually commented that over the water, the tornados are waterspouts and they are "really cool to watch". We did not see any over the next few days on the Cape, but we were NOT sorry to leave the wind behind. It blew hard for three days here as evidenced by the number of Kite Boarders we saw at times!
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was great, however we could not climb and go out at the top as the winds were too strong and the Park would not allow it.....starting to sound like a broken record, but, "We may have to come back....".
The little hut behind the trailer is on the beach....what a great location and beautiful view as we opened the window blind every morning!
We took a little ferry off this part of the Cape to another island and had a fun little day exploring more sand dunes and incedible beaches. There is some thing about being by the water!!! We had decided years ago that any holiday had to have a "water" component and this location certainly checked a lot of boxes!
Now the really cool departure from here took us to Kill Hill....mean anything to anyone? That is where the Wright brothers conquered flight. Now this National Park was REALLY great! We saw a life size model of the Kitty Hawk and the hangers where they built the "bird". Pretty good for two preacher's kids that were running a bicycle repair shop!
This was taken from the top of "Kill Hill" where they first launched their gliders in the early days! They have erected a monument here now and if you look to the right of the long walkway at the end of the field, you can see the hanger where Kitty Hawk was built and the building beside where they lived on site during the project.....a really interesting study!
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