Post Overland Expo respite to the OBX: pics
....after a rather hectic, exciting and info-filled 1.5 days at Asheville, we decide to take a "shart brek" at the Outer Banks (OBX). The Hwy 12 running through the north sector of the OBX sand bar to...
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These are photos of the 12 after Oregon Inlet (sand barrier mitigation, and road construction):
This is a photo of the 12 where the seawater is nearly at the road level (just inches away), during calm weather:
Here Dunes and I are breakfasting at the Blue Sea Cafe, in Lewes, Delaware:
Silversand reads about the history of Lewes, in the Cape Region; the site of the first European settlement in what today is Delaware. Founded in 1631, the initial small whaling colony was wiped out by Natives in 1632, and re colonized by a group of Dutch Mennonites in 1662. Skipping forward, the US built Fort Miles on Cape Henlopen, just south of Lewes; from Wiki, "It was one of the largest and most heavily armed coastal fortifications ever built."
A view of "Old Lewes" port from bridge (taken by Silverdunes):
Images around old Lewes:
This is a photo of the 12 where the seawater is nearly at the road level (just inches away), during calm weather:
Here Dunes and I are breakfasting at the Blue Sea Cafe, in Lewes, Delaware:
Silversand reads about the history of Lewes, in the Cape Region; the site of the first European settlement in what today is Delaware. Founded in 1631, the initial small whaling colony was wiped out by Natives in 1632, and re colonized by a group of Dutch Mennonites in 1662. Skipping forward, the US built Fort Miles on Cape Henlopen, just south of Lewes; from Wiki, "It was one of the largest and most heavily armed coastal fortifications ever built."
A view of "Old Lewes" port from bridge (taken by Silverdunes):
Images around old Lewes:
