New Years weekend we spent the night in Virginia Beach and then we spent a little over a day at the outer banks. Surprisingly we basically just relaxed at Virginia Beach and did a bunch of activities and sightseeing on the Outer Banks. Here is the view from our hotel in Virginia Beach.
One of the thing I wanted to do on this mini vacation was to drive down to Cape Hatteras. On the way down we still some damage from Hurricane Irene and this took place a few months ago. The people down there seemed to be in good spirits we saw many sayings on plywood mentioning Irene including a few basically saying “bring it Irene”.
Of course on the outer banks there are tons of beach front homes and some of them are impressive.
At Cape Hatteras you are able to drive on the beach if you have 4 wheel drive. I drove out to the beach but since the sand was a little deeper than I wanted and Teri was getting nervous I basically just went to the beach and then turned right around.
While down at Cape Hatteras we drove up to the lighthouse. The lighthouse is closed in the winter for climbing This lighthouse is 208 feet tall so if I ever come back here when it is open I want to climb it so I can get great views of the coast.
Before we headed back home we drove up to the northern part of the Outer Banks which include the towns of Duck and Corolla. A lot of the home in this part of the outer banks can rival homes we saw in the Hamptons. There are also more stores and supermarkets in this part of the outer banks. You can also get lucky and see the small horses here at the very top of the outer banks but we didn’t see any, maybe next time.
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