{"id":3990,"date":"2022-07-28T16:28:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T20:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2022-07-29T06:51:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T10:51:11","slug":"the-outer-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/?p=3990","title":{"rendered":"The Outer Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While a trip to Ocracoke was not in our weather gods’ plan, we did make it to Cape Lookout, Roanoke Island and Kill Devil Hills. We’ll be back for Ocracoke…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cape Lookout<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The tiniest sliver of sandbank curled like a little finger at the bottom of the Outer Banks, Cape Lookout is more sea and sky than land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roanoke Island<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The Alligator River Swing Bridge guards the entry from Albemarle Sound. It carries one of the two access roads to the Outer Banks. The bridge is completely full with cars on “move in Saturday” for the thousands of vacation homes on the Outer Banks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Aurora in the harbor at Manteo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Manteo’s Sea Tow. Happily, we have not needed to call them since the Erie Canal!\ud83d\ude1c<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Elizabethan Gardens. These gardens were designed and are managed by the North Carolina Garden Club. The site emulates the plantings and garden layouts which would have been found during the reign of Elizabeth I.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Roanoke’s Little Red Mailbox. The original mailbox is on Kill Devil Hills and was set up after a small boy was washed to sea. Inside the mailboxes are journals for passers by to leave their kind thoughts and wishes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kill Devil Hills<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We rented a car and left Roanoke for the Wright Memorial and the beach. The story of the tenacity, ingenuity and patience of these bicycle mechanics with a dream is inspiring. It is also a testament to what small, incremental steps can lead to when they build one upon the other. CI (Continuous Improvement) in action…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is pretty much EVERY afternoon in the Outer Banks in July.\u26a1\ufe0f\u26a1\ufe0f\u26a1\ufe0f<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While a trip to Ocracoke was not in our weather gods’ plan, we did make it to Cape Lookout, Roanoke Island and Kill Devil Hills. We’ll be back for Ocracoke… Cape Lookout The tiniest sliver of sandbank curled like a little finger at the bottom of the Outer Banks, Cape Lookout is more sea and… Continue reading The Outer Banks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-east-coast","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}