So glad I could bring forth a great memory. Those waters are full of wreckage from those less fortunate than yourself.

Thank you, lincemiope! Here's some more history:

It was built with 1,250,000 bricks baked in kilns along the James River in Virginia and brought in scows into Cape Creek where it was hauled by oxen one mile to the building site in Buxton. Its walls at the base are 14 feet of solid masonry and narrow to eight feet at the top. Weighing 6,250 tons, the lighthouse was built with no pilings under it - just a foundation built of heart pine. Towering 196 feet from the base to the top brick and then topped with an iron superstructure it become the tallest brick lighthouse on the American coast at 208 feet and at a cost of $155,000.00.

In the summer of 1999, as the ever-encroaching waters of the Atlantic Ocean threaten this stalwart structure, the Cape Hatteras Light was moved from its original location!

Thanks the comments... Perhaps at left, but i try to keep the 10x15 proportion as a printable one...

I stayed there two times,two days in sequence, about two hours clicking each day... in the second time at the sun set, a great opportunity for good photos, and someone there told me and i found in internet during some times in winter, the waves pass over the lighthouse, for one future visit, who knows...

Thanks, the crop is virtually nonexistent, the picture changed from 3371x2248 pixels to 3217x2145, just to keep the printing proportion.
And i have a different angle in my lighthouses album if you have curiosity...