Cape Lookout Lighthouse

We drove to Harker's Island to catch a ferry, a small flat bottomed boat whose captain, blond and bronzed by summers under the sun, sped us over Back Sound to the Cape Lookout National Seashore. The lighthouse was the main attraction for us, but many of the locals were attracted by something else. Today Hurricane Bill had spawned some big waves even on on these Southern Outer Banks, and surfers were waiting for the right time to catch them.