After makeover, Bodie Island Lighthouse to open

[Sherman A1]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — About a decade ago, the Bodie Island Lighthouse was in rough shape. Filled with wasps, the stairs to the top wobbled and the glass in the lantern room was broken. Iron work had rusted from rain.

After a $5 million makeover, the Bodie (pronounced bah'-dee) Island Lighthouse opens Friday to public for the first time in its 141-year-old history.

The 214 steps to the top are safe and the 344 hand-cut glass prisms of a 19th century lens have been cleaned so that the complex system can once again cast light 20 miles out to sea.

The lighthouse stands among pine trees and marshland, and people who have climbed it say Bodie's finest feature is its unimpeded view of marsh, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pamlico Sound.

http://weather.yahoo.com/makeover-bodie-island-lighthouse-open-165053841.html

[liberal N proud]

1. Excellent

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. Many happy memories of the Outer Banks of NC

Thanks for posting!

[CRK7376]

3. We drive

by Bodie Lighthouse every summer when we leave Kitty hawk and go to Ocracoke for the day on their beachs and lunch at Howard's Pub. 3-4 years ago we drove up to it and looked it over took pictures of the kids etc...This was befoe they started the renovations. Last year it was pretty cool seeing all the scaffolding around the lighthouse.

[CRK7376]

4. Now if they would

fix the Oregon Inlet Bridge. My wife absolutely hates driving over that rickety old bridge. Hates driving over any bridges....naturally we all have fun at her expense while driving on a bridge....