This is our last day in Hatteras, NC. We will miss the beaches here, but we need to keep moving if we are going to be in Florida by November 1st. Our mission today is to find a small statute of Cape Hatteras & Ocracoke light houses so we can add it to our collection on the fire place mantel. We also had to finalize our travel plans for tomorrow, and, most importantly, spend some time on the beach!
We thought we might find a light house statute in the visitors center of the light house. So, we made the 12 mile trip to Cape Hatteras light house. But, they didn't have what we were looking for. While we were there, we took a picture of the light keepers double house. It is now a museum with items inside that reflect the history of the outer banks, but not much about the light house and keepers quarters. The double keepers house was built to house two families, in addition to the single keepers house show on our blog dated September 22, 2012.
Here's a picture of the double keepers quarters at Cape Hatteras.
This is the single family keepers quarters for the Head Lightkeeper.
As we worked our way back to Hatteras, we stop at a couple of gift store and found the light houses we were looking for. Here they are on our fireplace mantel.
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Next, we finalized our travel for tomorrow. We will take the 40 minute ferry from Hatteras to Ocracoke Island, then take a 2 1/2 hour ferry to Swan Quarter, NC. From there, we will head west on US 264 to Washington, North Carolina where we plan to stay for a few days. We made our ferry reservations and fueled up the car and truck for an early departure tomorrow.
Now that the necessary things were done, it's time to hit the beach one last time. We'll spend a couple hours in the late afternoon sun enjoying the beach. We've been to the beach so much the last few days, we are on a first name basis with the sand crabs! Ha!
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