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Cape Hatteras National SeashoreThe Bodie Island Lighthouse contains a first-order Fresnel lens.
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Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Bodie Island Lighthouse Lens Work Progressing

Bodie Island lens

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Date: October 27, 2009

Cheryl Shelton-Roberts, along with ten other volunteers from the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society, worked with NPS contractor, Carolina Lighthouse Lens Works, and National Park Service volunteers this past week for several days carefully cleaning the prisms from the Bodie Island Lighthouse Fresnel lens.  Cleaning, packing and securing the prisms were preparatory lens work until the restoration work on Bodie Island Lighthouse structure is completed in 2011.  At that time, the prisms will be reassembled, the lens will then be returned and the familiar winking light will once again be seen from the top of the famous beacon.

Lightning whelks are one of the few species of  

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Lightning whelks eat about one large clam per month. The whelk pries the clam open with its muscular foot, wedges the clam open with its shell, then eats the soft inside of the clam. Lightning whelk shells, which whorl to the left, wash up on the beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

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Last Updated: October 27, 2009 at 09:57 EST