The forecast for Norfolk/Portsmouth was not good! A small craft advisory was in effect till Monday with gale force winds. We had No Agenda secure in the down town Portsmouth High Street Landing docks, so we rented a car to see the surrounding areas. We went to Kitty Hawk and the outer banks on Friday. Mike is a private pilot and aviation enthusiast, he absolutely was in his element at the Wright Brothers National Memorial.
The markers above mark the distance that the Wright brothers went on their four successful flights on December 17, 1903!
Left: Mike sitting in the pilots lounge at the Wright Brothers National Memorial Airstrip!
Jeannette’s Pier at Nags Head is pictured below. It is a 1000 foot concrete pier used for fishing and also has an aquarium and other educational events.
Below: Fort Raleigh National Historic Site-Site of the first English colony in the New World, where Sir Walter Raleigh’s explorers and later colonists established settlements in 1585 and 1587. This site would later become known as “The Lost Colony” after 116 settlers disappeared. The settlers were running low on supplies and their leader John White returned to England for relief. The colonists promised that if they left Roanoke Island while he was away, they would carve their destination in a tree/. White was not able to return for several years and he found the settlement silent–with only the words Croatoan carved into a post and CRO carved into a tree. Whited tried to reach Croatoan Island, now known as Hatteras Island but a hurricane forced the ship return to England. The fate of the colonists remains a mystery!
