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I tossed Goldfish crackers up to the gulls from the deck of the ferry to Cape Hatteras from Ocracoke Island. Needless to say, word got out that there was someone was feeding the gulls.
The Atlantic Ocean.  I would have expected more surf considering the storms,  but it was really rather calm. More of the beach at Cape Hatteras.  I thought it was beautiful, even though it was awfully overcast.
The grassy dunes run all along the beach, so they have a number of these wooden walkways and stairs to reach the beach.  This is how the campground looked the morning I left Cape Hattaras.

You can see why a number of the campers demanded refunds.

 

Just a memorial.  No one is buried in or under it, although this puppy is certainly big enough to house a tomb. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.
  Bodie Lighthouse.  (It's pronounced "body".)   Currituck Lighthouse.  I climbed this one and Hatteras.
 

My favorite beach house on the cape.

Most are typical saltbox style, but this one was really different.

 Part of the Elizabethan Garden, a memorial to the Lost Colony.
  Imagine walking down this path to the sound of a flute playing Bach.

It was absolutely perfect.

 

 A fanciful classical style statute of Virginia Dare as she might have looked as a young woman dressed as an Indian maiden.
  I passed this lovely old building on my way across North Carolina.  It's a wreck, but it's a romantic wreck.