The Bodie Island Light is located on the Roanoke Sound side of a portions of the barrier island peninsula in the northern part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. A road, the Bodie Island Lighthouse road leads west from North Carolina state highway 12 (SH 12), about six miles south of US 64 and US 158.

The lighthouse is just south of both Nags Head and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, a few miles before Oregon Inlet.

The current Bodie Island Lighthouse is the third that has stood in this vicinity of Bodie Island on the Outer Banks in North Carolina.

The first one built in 1847 and abandoned in 1859 because it was in an area that is now under water due to a migration of the inlet. The second built in 1859 was destroyed in 1861 by retreating Confederate troops to prevent Union troops from using it as an observation post. The third and current light house was completed in 1872 on a fifteen acre site further inland from the previous lights.

It was renovated from August 2009 to March 2013, and was made climbable by the public. The structure is one of only a dozen remaining tall, brick tower lighthouses in the United States, and one of the few with an original first-order Fresnel lens to cast its light.

Bodie Island Light, (pronounced body island) is believed to came from folklore that the name is due to the large number of dead sailors which have been washed ashore from wrecked ships along this portion of the coast, called the Graveyard of the Atlantic. However, that folklore is not true, but the name Bodie was named after the Body family who once owned the land on this area of Bodie′s Island which was separated by Roanoke inlet from the Currituck Banks.

Brick, cast iron, stone

total height: 170 feet.

It was a warm night, too warm for me and had to sleep outside of my bag most of it. I awake wontedly early, even wantedly (if I can use the latter to mean looking forward to something) and begin searching for WiFi which I find at a f-mart not far from the d-mart where I overnighted. I wait here while charging my computer battery until about six-thirty am when the light of day comes through the fog and rain.