The past few days we have mentioned the flooding in Virginia and North Carolina. This is in NC, 2 days after the storm. It has dried up a lot since then. We drove through standing water on roads today in places.

Today we went to the "OBX" (outer banks of North Carolina). It is a narrow ridge of islands off the shore of NC, much of which is the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. This picture is of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. They call this America's lighthouse. It is the tallest on the East coast, so we climbed to the top of it (258 stairs, 200 feet in the air).Cool, huh?

The Atlantic looks murky compared to the Pacific, but it is warmer. The outer banks has beautiful beaches.

This was a new one for us. All the locals mounted their fishing poles upright on their trucks. Some were mounted like this on the front bumpers too. We'd never seen that before.

The Roanoke State Park boasts they have sand dunes 80 to 100 feet above sea level. Almost as high as the sand hill at Lake Powell. What do you think?

The Wright brothers were the first to fly an airplane at Kity Hawk, NC, on what is known as the outer banks.

If you strain your eyes hard enough you can see an old style sewing machine next to the man standing in the back of the picture. The plane was canvas sewn over the frame of the plane to keep it light. (not only pilots, but seamstresses too.)