More PI pictures...

View of Portsmouth Village, from the Widow's Walk in the Life Saving Station. Terrific exhibit here, with lots of pictures and drawings of the men, boats and equipment used when a ship wrecked on the constantly shifting shoals off the Outer Banks. There were more than 20 Life Saving stations along the Outer Banks at one time. The church seen here is the Methodist church, rebuilt after a fire in 1915.

We met the current caretakers, a couple from MI, who are living at the Village for six weeks. She told us about the birds she's seen, and little more about the maintenance of the Village.













This house was so pretty in the morning light, the pink roses climbing on the picket fence. No one lives in any of the few houses left, but two (maybe more?) are held by long-term lease by descendents of former residents. There is no electricity in the Village, but there are generators and big batteries to help the seasonal workers live more comfortably.

We spent the morning seeing the exhibit in the old post office/store, and one other house that is open, walking through a graveyard, before heading back through the forest and back onto the beach side.

We met two men coming through the flats towards the Village. We had passed their camp earlier today. Several tents and 3 or 4 trucks...looks like a weekend of fishing. They told us of a sweet fishing hole at mile 4B, where they pulled them in as fast as they could bait a hook. We drove past the site, not wanting to crowd them.



Mile 8 looked good to us, so we pulled close to the high tide line, and called it a campsite. Close by are two turtle carcasses, meant to be undisturbed...this is one of them. It's nesting season, and we are close to a turtle nesting area.
Last night's brief storm had a little wind, and this pattern in the sand around the grass was pretty.

A few more pics in the next post....