July 2008: Outer Banks, North Carolina

The Whalehead Club, a 21,000 sq.ft. private residence built by a Depression-era northern industrialist as a cottage for waterfowl hunting, offers commanding views of both the Currituck Sound and the Atlantic Flyway.


Rising out of the surrounding freshwater marsh, the Curituck Beach lighthouse was built in 1875 to fill the "dark spot" on the North Carolina coast between the Cape Henry lighthouse to the north and Bodie Island lighthouse to the south.