It
took Orville and Wilbur
only 6 months with to build a "flying
machine" in 1903. Costs were estimated
at $1,000.00. 100 yeares later, it took
several craftsmen over a year to construct
a replica of the infamous 1903 "flying
machine". The cost were approximatley
$500,000.
Duck
was ranked as one of the "Top
Beaches" in America by the Travel Channel.
Jockey's
Ridge is home to the largest sand dunes
on the East Coast.
Wild
Ponies still run wild along the coast of
North Carolina. These are the descendants
of Spanish Mustangs which survived early
shipwrecks. Historical research records
the horses here as early as 1523. Today,
with the increasing development in their
habitat, they are under the pressure of
encroachment of their range --particularly
from vehicle traffic.
First
Cape Hatteras lighthouse
was built in 1802 and lit in 1803. The current
Cape Hatteras lighthouse is America's tallest
lighthouse at 198 feet high. It is also
the worlds tallest brick lighthouse. The
Cape Hatteras lighthouse. has 257 steps
leading to the top. The beacon light can
be seen for 20 miles out to sea It took
1.25 million bricks to build the tower and
if you laid each brick down, one-by-one,
they would extend from Corolla to Ocrcoke
Island - over 100 miles!
A 400
year old mystery haunts Roanoke Island.
Here, 117 men, women, and children lived
for a short time - then vanished without
a trace, leaving historians with a mystery
that has never been solved. What happen
to those colonists? The Lost
Colony is their story, told summer
nights in a dazzling song, dance, and drama,
beneath the stars at Waterside Theatre.
Ocracoke
Island is 16 miles miles and ranges
from a half mile to 2 miles in width.
The Bodie
Island Lighthouse has stood guard
over Oregon Inlet since 1848, but it has
a chequered past. The first light started
tilting to one side so much that the light
stopped flashing. The second light in the
lighthouse was blown up by Confederate troops
in 1861. The third one is the present one,
and stands 150 feet tall and is still fully
operational.
The most
famous pirate of all, Edward Teach, alias
Blackbeard, used to scour
these waters looking for lightly armed merchants
to rob. Many wouldn’t even put up
a fight once they knew who he was. He used
to put wicks laced with gunpowder in his
huge black beard to make himself more fearsome.
Blackbeard was powerful enough to blockade
the whole town of Charleston, South Carolina
for a whole week in May 1718. Seven months
later, in November 1718, Blackbeard eventually
died in a fierce battle at Ocracoke Inlet.
His flagship, the ‘Queen Anne’s
Revenge’ has only recently been found
off the coast and is now being excavated.
But his treasure, rumoured to be buried
on Ocracoke Island, has never been recovered.
The cemetery
on Ocracoke island is officially located
on British soil. It contains the graves
of British sailors washed ashore after the
wreck of the HMS Bedfordshire during WW2. |
Send to a Friend
