5/11/07 Cape Hatteras

We stayed at the Oregon Inlet campground in Cape Hatteras National Seashore last night. After breakfast we went over to the nearby Bodie Island Lighthouse. There was a field full of beautiful little blue flowers next to the lighthouse. That's our motorhome in the parking lot.


Here's a closeup of the flowers. There are a few white ones in the center of the picture.


We then drove a few miles south to the Pea Island Wildlife Refuge. In the Spring and Fall this is a great place to see migrating birds that are traveling north or south along the coast. We took a short hike on the nature trail and saw a number of snapping turtles in a small pond and....

a small lizard and....

a Great Egret and....


a Tricolored Heron.


A few miles south there is a boat launch access for Pamlico Sound. We got out our inflatable boat and rowed around for a few hours. There are a number of small low islands and the water is only 1-2 feet deep in the area. We came across some pilings from an old bridge. The bird below is a Least Tern.


Here's a shot of Pamlico Sound. It's a huge body of water.


While we were passing one of the islands, a black snake swam by. He or she was about 3 feet long and only the head was above the water.