Bodie Island Lighthouse

Today I ventured southward from my undisclosed location and went to North Carolina.  Instead of visiting the Wright Brothers memorial for the third time, the second visit being recorded in this blog's archives for January 2020, I went further south to the Bodie Island Lighthouse.  Yes, it's another lighthouse after the two that I saw in Ohio.  This lighthouse overlooks the north end of Pamlico Sound and the south end of Roanoke Sound.  It's located on a long spit of land that includes places such as Duck, Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head, whose north end is in Virginia.  A lagoon that connects to Pamlico Sound via some inlets is close to the lighthouse.  From a large open grassy area, I took this photo.  The lighthouse and a nearby small building are surrounded by a fence.

This is the visitor center, which was once the lighthouse keeper's residence.  Unfortunately, its interior was damaged by fire this past January, so it's closed.

This shot from a different angle shows part of a walkway to a viewing platform next to the aforementioned lagoon.

Here's the viewing platform, with one other visitor standing toward the right.  I wonder if I turned up in any of his pictures.

From the platform, here's some of the lagoon.

Finally, I turned around and took a pic of the walkway, with the lighthouse and visitor center in the background.

The was no fee to visit the lighthouse grounds and the walkway, but if you want to climb up inside the lighthouse, that's gonna cost ya, pilgrim.  To learn more about the Bodie Island Lighthouse, go to its National Park Service site, Recreation(dot)gov, The Outer Banks and OuterBanks(dot)com.