Painted Ocracoke Lighthouse
by Skip Willits
Title
Painted Ocracoke Lighthouse
Artist
Skip Willits
Medium
Photograph - Epson Lustre Paper
Description
This digitally painted accent piece will please any collector or anyone with an eye for color and texture. The oil paint processing technique lends additional tone and texture to the image and is best seen enlarged.
OCRACOKE LIGHTHOUSE
ATLANTIC OCEAN AND OCRACOKE INLET
OCRACOKE ISLAND, NC
Rife with shifting sandbars, the inlet and shoals around Ocracoke Island was a haven pirates plying the Atlantic coast. The most notorious of all was Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard. Ocracoke inlet would also prove to be the location of his last stand, losing his life in the inlet when the British cornered and killed him on November of 1718.
The first lighthouse built here in 1803 on Shell Castle Island was destroyed by lightening and replaced with the current version in 1823. The current fourth order lens was placed in the tower in 1864, and has operated as an outer banks sentinel ever since.
Ocracoke island can be reached by ferry from either Cedar Island, north of Morehead City, or Hatteras Island.
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Elizabeth Dow
I am a huge Outlander Fan. In one of the novels, Diana writes about the island of Ocracoke. I would love to visit this place. Are there any standing stones on the island that you are aware of?
Skip Willits replied:
Not that I am aware of Liz. It is s pretty neat place, a little country mixed with a little tourist stuff. You do need to get town there tho, the OBX is something else, especially Cape Point at Hatteras.
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