Evening star., 1934-05-27

bungalow bath houses. And they
rent at S. day, if you're interested
From the Cavalier Hotel, Atlantic
avenue becomes a State boulevard
that skirts the coast within hearing
of the surf around Cape Henry,
through the everlastingly shifting sand
dunes, through tall pine forest
stretches, across Lynnhaven Inlet on
Chesapeake Bay, on to Ocean View
and Willoughby Spit, at the entrance
to Hampton Roads. But it's not well
to cover that ground too rapidly. Too
much Of interest can be missed.
Historic Country.
At Cape Henry-one Of the two
Virginia capes"-the Washingtonian
treads soil stepped in history. There
on a brush-protected dune stands the
now abandoned old Cape Henry
Lighthouse, the first tower of the sort
to be erected on the seaboard by the
United States. It's been standing
since 1892. closer to the beach itself
towers the "new" Cape Henry Light
house structure of iron plates erect
ed in 1881. Running among the sand
dunes are railway tracks bearing To-
inch coast-defense rifles that COM
prise Fort Story.
Under the very muZzles of these
guns. so that on certain ranges the
screaming projectiles arch directly
overhead. lies the Cape Henry Coast
Guard Station. Though within 400
feet of the shore drive boulevard, this
station seems isolated from the world
of man, and if you'll take the trouble
to ferret out the winding sand road
that leads to it you'll find Capt
Charles o. Peel and his dozen men
amiable hosts and patient answerers
of landlubber questions.
Another quarter mile along the same
stretch Of beach is the United States
Weather Bureau station, and Just of
shore here is the station" of the
Virginia and the Maryland Pilot As
sociations. Two sturdy vessels lie of
there perpetually, and as ships loom
in from sea the associations boats
meet them and put skilled pilots
aboard to bring the ships into the
waters of these two States. Regard
less of weather conditions the pilot
boats stay on their stations, and
under fair or foul circumstances the
pilots make their precarious climbs by
rope ladders up the towering sides of
deep-water vessels.
Desert and wilderness"
From Cape Henry, another 40 miles
along the shore drive, the visitor
moves on to Lynnhaven Inlet, the
water entrance to Lynnhaven Bay,
which produces the famous oyster that
bears that name. The stretch of road
to the inlet traverses the wild sec
ton that has been converted into the
Virginia Seashore State Park. Several
hundred c. c. c. youths have worked
for months clearing out the under
brush to make this rustic area avail
able to visitors. Intricate paths that
skirt beautiful fresh water lakes behind
the sand stretches known as the Des-
which natives call the Wilderness,
have been made easily passable. Shell
ters for adventurous pilgrims are be-
ing erected at intervals and bath
houses are yet to be constructed on
the beach side of the new park.
Now, the route described up to this
point is available to motorists of
course, as well as to visitors who care
to travel by the regularly operated
bus lines and the cars Of the electric
railway. From Lynnhaven Inlet,
however, the electric railway bears of
on its own route back to Norfolk. But
the shore drive goes on, and in an
other 10 miles Ocean View is reached.
Ocean View Is this sections second
most important resort area and, as a
matter of civic fact. Is within the
boundaries of the City of Norfolk
While in this description, the View"
has been approached the long-way-
round, the visitor can 60 to it from
Norfolk over miles Of straight, per-
feet road. A glance at the map will
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