Day 7- 7/23 outerbanks continued

A rather restless night sleep last night. There’s a reason the Wright brothers picked here for the wind and the temps were fairly oppressive as they are in a heat wave. Got up for a mediocre, but at least no miserable run along the single road that runs through the outer banks to the bodie lighthouse, and finished with an actually pleasant run along the beach for 10 min or so. We hit the road and drove to the next island over in an impressive causeway and meandered through the increasingly quaint small towns towards the ferry that would take us to okracoke. The ferry was an hour, which was glorious. Light bird watching and just soaking up the salt air. We stopped for lunch at the pony pen, the. Drove into ocracoke and checked into the hotel we had rental on the the whim last night in the head and with risk of rain much of the day. We did have some rain in the drive, but it ultimately held off and we rented bikes in the afternoon to head out to a beach a bit out of town. Absolutely glorious. Maybe 20 people in sight and not a man made structure to be seen. Biked back in, checked out the lighthouse, and hit the brewery after cleaning up a little. Solid beer with a great 2nd floor deck taking it all in. Seafood again in town at a place on the piers. Another day that’s quite hard to complain about.