![\"Sunrise](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/IMG_5323.jpg\")
<\/a><\/br>Sunrise Glow over Horizon<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a><\/br>Tent Against Sunrise Glow<\/p><\/div>\n
Sunrise<\/span><\/h3>\nSince weather was fine last night, clear starry skies and ocean breeze, I set alarm clock early hoping to catch some spectacular scenes of sunrise.
\nUnfortunately, despite that Cape Point Campground looked fairly close to beaches and ocean, there weren’t many accessible footpaths, so instead I drove to the original location of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse which was right next to ocean.<\/p>\n
![\"Sunrise](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails-m\/IMG_5322.jpg\")
<\/a> ![\"Sunrise](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails-m\/IMG_5326.jpg\")
<\/a><\/br>Sunrise Glow over Horizon<\/p><\/div>\n![\"Old](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails\/IMG_5324.jpg\")
<\/a><\/br>Old Foundations of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse<\/p><\/div>\n
Unfortunately, although sky was clear right above Cape Hatteras, it certainly wasn’t that way on the distant horizon, as I (and a handful others) waited past sunrise time to a brighter sky of vivid colors but yet no traces of sun. I guess the most appropriate music for the moment should be the one that we had enjoyed so far this road trip, “Will the Sun Forget to Streak” in Handel’s Solomon and fitting to our imminent departure after our brief visit to all the wonders of Outer Banks.<\/p>\n
So 10 minutes after forecast sunrise time, the belated sight of sun finally broke off distant clouds and went on the rise, just as the tripod carrying fellas and I were running out of patience and packing to leave.<\/p>\n
![\"Belated](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails-m\/IMG_5327.jpg\")
<\/a> ![\"Belated](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails-m\/IMG_5328.jpg\")
<\/a><\/br>![\"Belated](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails\/IMG_5327Q10.jpg\")
<\/a><\/br>Belated Sunrise<\/p><\/div>\n![\"Cape](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails\/IMG_5331.jpg\")
<\/a><\/br>Cape Hatteras Lighthouse<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Sunrise](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails\/IMG_5332.jpg\")
<\/a><\/br>Sunrise Glow over Horizon<\/br>Not long after that, the sun hid back into the clouds, again.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n![\"Belated](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails\/IMG_5334Q10.jpg\")
<\/a><\/br>Belated Sunrise<\/br>And three minutes after that, it emerged from the clouds, this time in whole.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n![\"Pond](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails\/IMG_5335Q10.jpg\")
<\/a><\/br>Pond of Cranes<\/br>By the campsite when it’s already daytime.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\nKnowing that I would have a long day ahead, I tried to go back to catch more sleep, which wasn’t easy given now sun was heating up interior of the tent. So at roughly 8:30 in the morning, my friend and I were packing up and leaving.<\/p>\n
A quick note of Cape Point Campground, there were many reasons one might not be fond of it, to name a few, <\/p>\n
\n- It doesn’t have the best facilities, notably its primitive shower rooms with no lights and no hot water.<\/li>\n
- It’s probably only inches above sea level, so drainage wasn’t good and during our stay literally half the campground was submerged in inches of water, which might not make the best way to\/from bathrooms and shower rooms.<\/li>\n
- The revolving lights of nearby Cape Hatteras Lighthouse might be an annoying presence to the lightest sleepers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
But compared with our miserable night on the beaches of Norfolk, we still considered it a bliss of watching a skyful of stars while listening to the symphony of frogs to sleep.
\nOk, for someone allergic to bugs like me, probably less so this morning when I found my tent exterior was swarming with worms and I was disinfecting the rainfly with my least-favorite credit card before scrambling everything into the tent bag. Result was that, after I got back home I need to wash the tent all over again.<\/del><\/p>\nSo after that, we headed out for Cape Hatteras Lighthouse not too far away.<\/p>\n
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse<\/span><\/h3>\n![\"Cape](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails-m\/20190602_093640.jpg\")
<\/a> ![\"Cape](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails-m\/20190602_094444.jpg\")
<\/a><\/br>Cape Hatteras Lighthouse<\/p><\/div>\n![\"Support](\"https:\/\/huangyizhou.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/20190602\/thumbnails\/20190602_100009.jpg\")
<\/a><\/br>Support Buildings<\/p>\n
\n\nClick for details<\/summary>\n“There have been words written to the effect that the lighthouse keepers and their families had a very lonely life; however, we did not have this experience. In fact, just the opposite would be more apt to apply. The lighthouse was always a favorite place to visit by the village folk so we would have lots of company, especially on Sunday afternoons and the evening hours, when the heat of summer was unbearable in the wooded areas of the villages. Swimming, baseball games, croquet, chasing wild horses and penning them in the yards for breaking to the saddle, and climbing the lighthouse were all a big part of our lives.”.Rany Jennette, son of the last Principal Keeper at Cape Hatteras Lighthouse…<\/br>Two residences served the keepers and their families at the Cape Hatteras Light Station. The larger building, the Double Keepers’ Quarters (1854), was built for the staff of the first Lighthouse and today serves as Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s Hatteras Island Visitor Center. The smaller building is the Principal Keeper Quarters (1871), constructed from materials left over from the present-day lighthouse. it accommodated the head lighthouse keeper and his family.
\nFrom official information board.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Since we were sort of time-constrained to catch the ferries, we did not participate in lighthouse climbing. The larger keepers’ quarter on the left of the previous picture was now converted to a small museum, which displayed a few pictures about the history of these outer banks islands, the wars they had witnessed, promotional<\/del> information about US Coast Guard, and more importantly, the a brief history about Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.<\/p>\nThe current Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was built in 1870s in a location 880 meters away, where I watched sunrise glow<\/del> this morning. Due to erosion of the shore that location became too close to ocean and unsafe for the lighthouse, so the lighthouse was jacked up onto a railway and moved to the current location. From the photos exhibition it was a quite a spectacle.<\/p>\n
\nUnfortunately, despite that Cape Point Campground looked fairly close to beaches and ocean, there weren’t many accessible footpaths, so instead I drove to the original location of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse which was right next to ocean.<\/p>\n
<\/a> <\/br>Old Foundations of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse<\/p><\/div>\n Unfortunately, although sky was clear right above Cape Hatteras, it certainly wasn’t that way on the distant horizon, as I (and a handful others) waited past sunrise time to a brighter sky of vivid colors but yet no traces of sun. I guess the most appropriate music for the moment should be the one that we had enjoyed so far this road trip, “Will the Sun Forget to Streak” in Handel’s Solomon and fitting to our imminent departure after our brief visit to all the wonders of Outer Banks.<\/p>\n So 10 minutes after forecast sunrise time, the belated sight of sun finally broke off distant clouds and went on the rise, just as the tripod carrying fellas and I were running out of patience and packing to leave.<\/p>\n <\/br>Cape Hatteras Lighthouse<\/p><\/div>\n <\/br>Sunrise Glow over Horizon<\/br>Not long after that, the sun hid back into the clouds, again.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n <\/br>Belated Sunrise<\/br>And three minutes after that, it emerged from the clouds, this time in whole.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n <\/br>Pond of Cranes<\/br>By the campsite when it’s already daytime.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n Knowing that I would have a long day ahead, I tried to go back to catch more sleep, which wasn’t easy given now sun was heating up interior of the tent. So at roughly 8:30 in the morning, my friend and I were packing up and leaving.<\/p>\n A quick note of Cape Point Campground, there were many reasons one might not be fond of it, to name a few, <\/p>\n But compared with our miserable night on the beaches of Norfolk, we still considered it a bliss of watching a skyful of stars while listening to the symphony of frogs to sleep. So after that, we headed out for Cape Hatteras Lighthouse not too far away.<\/p>\n <\/br>Support Buildings<\/p>\n “There have been words written to the effect that the lighthouse keepers and their families had a very lonely life; however, we did not have this experience. In fact, just the opposite would be more apt to apply. The lighthouse was always a favorite place to visit by the village folk so we would have lots of company, especially on Sunday afternoons and the evening hours, when the heat of summer was unbearable in the wooded areas of the villages. Swimming, baseball games, croquet, chasing wild horses and penning them in the yards for breaking to the saddle, and climbing the lighthouse were all a big part of our lives.”.Rany Jennette, son of the last Principal Keeper at Cape Hatteras Lighthouse…<\/br>Two residences served the keepers and their families at the Cape Hatteras Light Station. The larger building, the Double Keepers’ Quarters (1854), was built for the staff of the first Lighthouse and today serves as Cape Hatteras National Seashore’s Hatteras Island Visitor Center. The smaller building is the Principal Keeper Quarters (1871), constructed from materials left over from the present-day lighthouse. it accommodated the head lighthouse keeper and his family. <\/p><\/div>\n Since we were sort of time-constrained to catch the ferries, we did not participate in lighthouse climbing. The larger keepers’ quarter on the left of the previous picture was now converted to a small museum, which displayed a few pictures about the history of these outer banks islands, the wars they had witnessed, The current Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was built in 1870s in a location 880 meters away, where I watched sunrise <\/a><\/br>Sunrise Glow over Horizon<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/br><\/a><\/br>Belated Sunrise<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\n
\nOk, for someone allergic to bugs like me, probably less so this morning when I found my tent exterior was swarming with worms and I was disinfecting the rainfly with my least-favorite credit card before scrambling everything into the tent bag. Result was that, after I got back home I need to wash the tent all over again.<\/del><\/p>\nCape Hatteras Lighthouse<\/span><\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/br>Cape Hatteras Lighthouse<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a>Click for details<\/summary>\n
\nFrom official information board.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/div>\npromotional<\/del> information about US Coast Guard, and more importantly, the a brief history about Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.<\/p>\nglow<\/del> this morning. Due to erosion of the shore that location became too close to ocean and unsafe for the lighthouse, so the lighthouse was jacked up onto a railway and moved to the current location. From the photos exhibition it was a quite a spectacle.<\/p>\n