Corolla and Ponies

I found a great website today for the Outer Banks: http://www.outerbanksguidebook.com/ It's a complete A to Z guide of anything you want to know about this area.

From the guidebook: The Outer Banks of North Carolina is one of very few places in America where wild horses still roam free, surviving in this once remote coastal environment. Descended from Spanish stock which arrived over 400 years ago, these hardy, tenacious horses have lived here since the earliest explorers and shipwrecks. In previous centuries there were thousands of these horses roaming the full length of the Outer Banks, from Shackleford Banks, all along Core Banks, Ocracoke, Hatteras, and on northward beyond Corolla on Currituck Banks. With the protected status now afforded to them, they should remain free to live as their ancestors have for centuries. They continue to capture the imagination of many people, especially horse-lovers.

Currituck Beach Lighthouse (located in Corolla) was the third of three lighthouses built under the skilled supervision of Dexter Stetson, who was construction foreman for the Cape Hatteras and Bodie Island lighthouses as well. As fate would have it, construction on Currituck Beach Lighthouse had only begun the year Cape Lookout, Cape Hatteras and Bodie Island received their black and white markings. So Currituck was spared from the painters brush, and stands today as bare red brick. But it's this very distinction that not only lets us see what the others once looked like, but allows the architectural dignity and detail of this brick marvel to be appreciated.