Today I took a day-trip up to the Bodie Island lighthouse. Bodie (pronounced "body") Island lighthouse is the next lighthouse to the north of here. All the lighthouses in North Carolina are 40 miles apart. While I was there, I met a volunteer named John Gaskill. He is the son of the man who was the last lighthouse keeper at the Bodie Island lighthouse! He lived at the lighthouse with his family back in 1918! He can remember what the island was like before there were bridges here: when you had to take a boat over and then drive on the beach because there were no roads here! He can remember before there was electricity on the island and his father had to carry heavy buckets of kerosene up the lighthouse to keep the light lit. It was so great to have the opportunity to talk to him!
I am putting up a picture of the Bodie Island lighthouse, see if you can notice any differences between it and the Hatteras lighthouse! More to come on this subject!
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