Jack and Raquel stayed at the lighthouse for 3 months out of the year for 3 years.

Here is a picture of Cape Lookout Lighthouse where Jack and I stayed in the keeper's Quarters, which you can see below (next to the lighthouse). We volunteered our services there in the Spring for a 3 month period for 3 years. Jack was so happy repairing things, building cottages, driving the ATV around the the beaches helping out where he could to save large turtles and protect the turtle eggs from threatening seaside storms. His research of the outerbanks showed loud and clear in his lecture to the tourists. All the pictures I have of him working are in scrapbooks, before the time when we could put them on the computer. Oh well...it's a wonderful memory Age-old lighthouse to reopen Updated: Thursday, 08 Jul 2010, 1:09 PM EDT Published : Thursday, 08 Jul 2010, 1:09 PM EDT OCRACOKE ISLAND, N.C. (WAVY) - Cape Lookout Lighthouse has been lighting up the southern part of the Outer Banks for 150 years. And in just a few days, the lighthouse will re-open to the public. The lighthouse is south of Ocracoke Island near Morehead City, North Carolina. With its signature white and black diamond design, the National Park Service stopped letting climbers scale to the top in February 2008, after an inspection revealed the building needed major repairs. Now that the $500,000 repairs are finished, visitors can soon make the 12 story hike to the top, to see some of the most breath-taking views of the Outer Banks. "It's gorgeous, you can see the coast line, you can see the miles and miles of gorgeous beach, you can see the inlet, you can see areas of the channel that need to be drudged a little bit more and you can see so many of the sail boats and people enjoying this," North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan said. When the lighthouse officially opens in a few days, tourism officials hope it will boost the economy of the Outer Banks.