Jockey’s Ridge State Park Outer Banks North Carolina Found at Jockey’s Ridge State Park are the highest sand dunes on the east coast, about 90 feet tall. The sand is mostly quartz rock which came from the mountains millions of years ago. Jockey’s Ridge has about six million dump truck loads of sand on its 420 acres. Sand temperatures can get up to 30 degrees […]
Christine ~ Lighthouses of the Outer Banks
Rising 156 feet the Bodie Island Lighthouse was built in 1872. The first Bodie Island Lighthouse was built in 1837 and was 54 feet tall. Because of sand that was too soft, the base too unstable it started sinking and listing. A second light house was built farther south and was 90 feet tall. During the Civil War Confederate soldiers removed the lens so Union […]
