Photos from the trip
Outer Banks
Bodie Island Light
Nags Head, North Carolina
Its real signal — watch it blink
Fl(2) W 30s — two white flashes every 30 seconds
One full cycle: 30 seconds.
- Built
- 1872
- First lit
- 1872
- Height
- 156 ft
- Focal plane
- 156 ft above water
- Status
- Still burning
- Visited
- Add your year
The third tower on this marshy island — the first two leaned and cracked in soft ground. Horizontal black-and-white bands paint it like a barber pole laid on its side. Bodie keeps time slowly: two 2½-second flashes, then 22½ seconds of darkness, every half minute.