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Cape Hatteras National SeashoreThe Ocracoke Island Lighthouse is the oldest operating lighthouse in North Carolina.
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Migratory and Wintering Shorebird Monitoring at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, 2006-2007, National Park Service, Natural Resource Program Center; M.W. Byrne, J.M. Maxfield, J. DeVivo (pdf, 800 kb).
Sea Whip, though it looks like a plant, is actually whole colony of animals.  

Did You Know?
A piece of sea whip that washes up on the beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore is not a plant, but the skeleton of a whole colony of animals. A tiny animal lived in each hole on the yellow, orange or purple stems. It had a mouth, a stomach and eight tentacles to catch food.

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