The Cape Lookout Lighthouse is the southernmost lighthouse that guards the Outer Banks. The other cape for North Carolina is Oracoke Island. The lighthouse is barely visible from the Harkers Island, but we took a ferry from the NPS visitor center to get out to the island and see the lighthouse up close. This is the same region as Shackelford Banks, but the shells over there are way better than at Cape Lookout. The kids got two new books at the visitor center and had fun reading them on the beach. The current lighthouse was built in the 1850s with a Fresnel lens that could be visible 15 nautical miles out into the ocean.
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