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Driving to the Outer Banks, seeing many farm produce stands along the way!
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A visit to the Coinjock Marina. A few days later, we tied-up at this marina.
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Coinjock's 'directional' signage!
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Spoke with some other "Loopers" at our Coinjock visit.
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On our way to Kitty Hawk and the Outer Banks ("OBX")!
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Many were walking a LARGE sand dune!
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At the sand dune's peak!
Some people were 'boarding' down the dunes!
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Looks like fun...even if you do get sand in your shoes!
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But then, you can just leave your shoes behind!
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Hotel and beach houses...after hotel and beach houses...after hotel and beach houses.
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marshes abound for natural habitats...
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Visiting the replica of the Elizabeth II, in a stop at Manteo.
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Of course, we were in "Dare" County!
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The Elizabeth II's replica dinghy!
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Always a wonderful woodworker, Ron shows off how to work a 'pedal lathe'. The lathe was set up in a replica of a small, colonial village.
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Leave it to a woman to show us how the pedal lathe is really done!
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Ron in front of the actual size replica of Orville and Wilbur's "flying machine"!
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This monument, in tribute to Orville and Wilbur Wright, sits atop the hill overlooking the field where they first succeeded with their four test flights, in Kitty Hawk/Kill Devil Hills.
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Where their test flights occurred, the stones mark the first three "landings" of the four flights.
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"X" marks the spot where Orville and Wilbur flight tested.
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The fourth stone, in the far distance, marks where their fourth attempt to fly landed - concluding that they had now succeeded in proving that man could fly!
Orville and Wilbur's 'camp' -
replica buildings of where they lived and where they worked on building/repairing various parts of their flying machine.
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Men of vision...
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Kitty Hawk...just one of many places I had always wanted to see...to think that we were standing where Orville and Wilbur stood...
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Auto'ing on a bridge over the Intercoastal Waterway.
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