"Searching for Cape Charles Lighthouse" Fishermans Island National Wildlife Refuge Travelogue by grandmaR

Gas station (blurred because camera was slow)

We missed seeing the gas that was $2.99 (or else they upped the price since last night), so we stopped when we saw some that was $3.059. The car is getting 34+mpg. We have seen two Roses department stores over here, and several Walmarts that are painted cream color and not grey. We also saw a Peebles department store - we used to have one of them where we live.

Entrance to the wildlife refuge

I had put the GPS location for the Cape Charles Lighthouse on Smith Island into the GPS. That took us into the Eastern Shore of Virginia Wildlife Refuge.

Man with pole on the right side as we pass

The GPS took us to the Wise Boat Ramp and then told us to start off road navigation. We looked but couldn't see the lighthouse.

So I went back to the Refuge administration building. The man there said that there was a tree covered island in the way of seeing the lighthouse from the refuge. He said the only place you could see it from land was the northbound lane of the Bridge Tunnel.

There were men all over the Refuge wearing orange vests with poles with a little white disk in top. The man I talked to said the guys with the disk at the top of the poles were surveying the roads - they use GPS for that now.

Snow Goose - middle bird

And there was a stuffed snow goose on the top of a bookcase so I took a photo of it.

He showed me on a map where the lighthouse was. There was a historic cemetery on the map, so we drove to the parking area and walked down to it. First we passed a WWII bunker

Grave of a little boy

..and then we got to the cemetery. We took photos of the markers

My picture of the vulture from the ground

.. and then Bob climbed to the top of the bunker. He got a (better) picture of a vulture in the top of a tree, but he said you really couldn't see much. We didn't go as far as the marsh overlook.

Approaching the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel

We were approaching the Bridge Tunnel by 11:40 ($12 toll), and now we were on the way to Norfolk