Our 100th post!! (OBX Part 4)

This post marks our 100th post on the blog!!  What a great post this is going to be since it is a continuation of our honeymoon adventure on the Outer Banks in North Carolina. 

While just seeing Cape Hatteras Lighthouse would have been enough of an adventure, we decided to make the most out of the day and a half that we were on the Outer Banks.  The recaps of our trip do not follow the chronological order that we saw the lighthouses, we actually saw Bodie Island Lighthouse first (Mike's post coming up soon), then Cape Hatteras, followed by the two lighthouses that I am going to share with you now:  Ocracoke Lighthouse and Currituck Beach Lighthouse. 

We had arrived at Cape Hatteras Lighthouse around 8:30am so that we could cram as much stuff into less than 24 hours as possible.  After we finished climbing the lighthouse and taking a lot of pictures, we hopped into my car and made our way to the ferry that would take us to Ocracoke Island.  Ocracoke Island is only accessible by water or air.  Our friend Vanessa told us that the ferry leaves every half hour, therefore, we tried to make it so that we would catch the ferry without having to wait.  Lucky for us, we did (the way there anyway).

Welcome aboard!

We enjoyed the 45 minute ferry ride by taking in the scenery.  The ride there wasn't too bad but on the way back we were all the way in the back and our car got sprayed by a lot of water.  The impending hurricane was causing some rougher seas, but we were fine!

As soon as we got off the ferry, we made our way to Ocracoke Lighthouse. 

Ocracoke Lighthouse is the second oldest active lighthouse in North Carolina and the lighthouse and keeper's cottage will often house people during hurricanes because of their location on higher ground.

Before trying to catch the ferry to head back to see our fourth lighthouse of the trip, we stopped for some "lunch".  We bought some candy, salt water taffy and fudge from an amazing candy store called Sweet Tooth.  Along with some chips we had brought with us for the drive, we had a really unhealthy lunch (but it was still pretty good!)

Unfortunately, as I alluded to before we didn't make the next ferry and had to wait in line.  We also made some other pit stops along the way like these before making it to Currituck Beach Lighthouse.

 A huge Adirondack chair!

 The Wright Brother's Monument 

Replica of the first flight

Because of our wait for the ferry and some of our stops along the way, we didn't make it to the lighthouse in time to go on the grounds.  We will just have to go back to see it again!

You can climb Currituck Beach Lighthouse and you can even have a wedding on its grounds!  We also went across the way to a beach in order to get some other pictures of the lighthouse. 

There you have it!  The last two lighthouses that we saw on the Outer Banks, but don't worry Mike will fill you in on how our Outer Banks adventure actually started soon!

I hope you enjoyed our 100th post!