While on vacation in Frisco on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks a couple of weeks ago I took some photos with my Mini 2. This is my favorite. It shows how very narrow the Outer Banks are in some (many) places. Understandably, all it takes is a major storm to cut right through some of these spots and create new islands by cutting one off the mainland or in the location shown below, by cutting an island in half.
On the left is the Atlantic and on the right is Pamlico Sound. The houses in the forefront are the west edge of Frisco and the houses in the distance make up the town of Hatteras.
The dunes along the left (the lumpy vegetated bumps along the beach) were man made by the WPA during the Depression (in 1933 or so). There are natural dunes in some other places of the Outer Banks, the most notable being Jockey's Ridge and the nearby dunes from which the Wright Brothers launched their flights. However, many people don't know that most of the dunes on the Outer Banks, particularly the ones protecting the sea-front houses and that we see on the evening news as having been washed away by nor'easters and hurricanes were man made nearly a century ago.
The road is NC Highway 12 that runs the length (148 miles) of the Outer Banks and includes several ferry crossings. The town of Hatteras, in the distance, is at the far end of Hatteras Island and to continue from there by ferry to the Island of Ocracoke where NC 12 continues takes about 45 minutes to an hour, depending on conditions and not including the hour (or more) wait for the ferry.
The picture was automatically post processed in Photos.Google by the Google Assistant and suggested as an enhancement.
FYI, this more or less duplicates a post I made in Ugly Hedgehog, so apologies if you've encountered it twice.
On the left is the Atlantic and on the right is Pamlico Sound. The houses in the forefront are the west edge of Frisco and the houses in the distance make up the town of Hatteras.
The dunes along the left (the lumpy vegetated bumps along the beach) were man made by the WPA during the Depression (in 1933 or so). There are natural dunes in some other places of the Outer Banks, the most notable being Jockey's Ridge and the nearby dunes from which the Wright Brothers launched their flights. However, many people don't know that most of the dunes on the Outer Banks, particularly the ones protecting the sea-front houses and that we see on the evening news as having been washed away by nor'easters and hurricanes were man made nearly a century ago.
The road is NC Highway 12 that runs the length (148 miles) of the Outer Banks and includes several ferry crossings. The town of Hatteras, in the distance, is at the far end of Hatteras Island and to continue from there by ferry to the Island of Ocracoke where NC 12 continues takes about 45 minutes to an hour, depending on conditions and not including the hour (or more) wait for the ferry.
The picture was automatically post processed in Photos.Google by the Google Assistant and suggested as an enhancement.
FYI, this more or less duplicates a post I made in Ugly Hedgehog, so apologies if you've encountered it twice.
