Looking at the center of the photo where the water washes onto the sand you can see the remains of an old wooden pier, or at least the dark line going into the water; behind that is a green turfed circle of sand and that is where the lighthouse use to sit. With hundreds of people's body and brains working, they figured out how to move the lighthouse in a straight line towards the camera. The parking was not there at the time. Look it up online, very interesting.
https://www.nps.gov/caha/learn/historyculture/movingthelighthouse.htm and there are some videos of the actual moving.
And it turns out that the man i met at Beaver Lake Dam here in Asheville is the photographer that took the photographs of the move - amazing, eh?
In Winston-Salem we spent the night as we made our way to Laurel Forks, VA, a mostly non-existent town on the west side of the Blue Ridge Parkway and as we were leaving W-S, S said, "go this way, i think there is a photographic opportunity up ahead."
Have you even seen anything like that? An old Shell station, that, i assume, was a working station at one time. There was no information at the site and it was closed and clearly well cared for.
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