And The ADVENTURE Continues...: June 22, 2015 Down day and a new lighthouse

Monday, June 22 Relaxing day around the campsite and a short trip to Pigeon Point Light Station

Mike and I decided that we would take a walk down the beach south as I had already walked the beach to the north. The north end of the beach was much more interesting from the start as I found sand dollars, some neat looking rocks (one that had a smiley face) and some sea glass. Now the south beach started out slow but ended with a bang. It started out with nothing on the beach but the seagulls and the cliffs to our left. After about 2 miles yes that is correct we started to see rocks in the water and then we started to collect sea glass. I have never found this much glass at one time. I came across a starfish that was still alive so Mike suggested that I throw him back into the ocean, just as I let it go I forgot to take a picture—rats!!! Sorry no photo guys. As we continued the rocks in the water were getting bigger and just as we turned the corner around the bluff we saw a beautiful hotel on the top of the bluff and some strange looking cement pillars like something from planet of the apes. We asked someone what it was and she told us that it was the Ritz Carlton and the pillars were from construction of the Hilton years before when the bluff gave way and all construction stopped. Now we had walked 3 miles one way so back we went picking up sea glass for the next hour. We came across a pretty large crab on his back so we turned him over and put him back into the surf and away he went but not before I took a picture of him. At the end of our 6 mile hike we had collected a small coffee cup of sea glass no bad for a couple of hours.

After lunch Mike and I went to see another lighthouse that was just about 20 miles south of us. Amy and Jeff just wanted to relax at home so off we went. The lighthouse was called Pigeon Point Light Station. I was kind of glad that you couldn’t go up it as my calves were telling me that they had enough of a workout today. The Fresnel lens from this lighthouse was actually the replacement lens from the Cape Hatteras Light House from the period of the Civil War. That made it even more interesting. On our way back we stopped and took photos of the Ritz Carlton that we saw from the beach. It was more impressive from the beach.