Top: Bodie Island light.
Middle: Charter boats at Oregon Inlet.
Bottom: Dunes and sea oats, covering the wreckage of the schooner Laura Barnes.
Top: Bodie Island light.
Middle: Charter boats at Oregon Inlet.
Bottom: Dunes and sea oats, covering the wreckage of the schooner Laura Barnes.
Top: Bodie Island light.
Middle: Charter boats at Oregon Inlet.
Bottom: Dunes and sea oats, covering the wreckage of the schooner Laura Barnes.
Shingle.
Most of the Outer Banks beaches are composed uniformly of very fine golden sand. Occasionally the wind and surf will scour and deposit small stretches of sturdier stuff, like these pea-sized pebbles and polished bits of shell.
At Coquina Beach in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina.

Shingle.
Most of the Outer Banks beaches are composed uniformly of very fine golden sand. Occasionally the wind and surf will scour and deposit small stretches of sturdier stuff, like these pea-sized pebbles and polished bits of shell.
At Coquina Beach in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina.
And thus ends my OBX excursion – a near perfect day in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Today I offer 1 impressionist seascape, 1 pebbly beach, 3 black and white experiments, 4 sanderlings and 1 stray gull, and 1 drive-through liquor store.

And thus ends my OBX excursion – a near perfect day in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Today I offer 1 impressionist seascape, 1 pebbly beach, 3 black and white experiments, 4 sanderlings and 1 stray gull, and 1 drive-through liquor store.

Trawler hull.
Trawler hull.

Vacant purple martin house, on the causeway between Nags Head and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
Vacant purple martin house, on the causeway between Nags Head and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.