An unexpected sight on Ocracoke: a Gecko-y thing seated comfortably atop a whelk shell which had itself been placed upon the point of a fence picket in the island fashion.

Figure 1. Nikon Z 7ii with Nikkor Z 24-200 mm f/4.0-6.3 lens.
200 mm, f/8, ISO 100, 1/200 s.
Cleaned up in DxO and edited in Luminar AI.