Fun Places We Visited on the Outer Banks NC

Lighthouses

It would have been fun to do a lighthouse tour, but we decided to only visit the one down on Cape Hatteras. The drive down there was very interesting. It is hard for the road crews to keep the roads open with the continual moving sand. The sand was piled high on the sides of the road like snow after the snowplows go through.

Roanoke Island

Roanoke Island is the home of the lost colony. This was so interesting to us. We never knew that the first attempt to establish an English Colony was in the late 1500’s on the outer banks with its extreme weather conditions. A small colony had been set up and group of colonists was left on the island while the ship returned to gather supplies. When the ship returned a year later they had all vanished leaving only a few clues as to where they might be. They were never found.

Fort Macon built after the war of 1812 to help protect our coast.

Bird Sanctuary on the Outer Banks, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. A ranger was counting swans just before we made our way up this viewing platform. 561, if your interested!!!! Plus ducks, pelicans, and many other migratory birds.

The pure white pelicans were very pretty!