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Experience Bald Head

Stories

Short reads about how the island actually works and feels, built around photographs and sound recorded on location.

Wading birds, ibis and egrets, roosting in trees at a dusk rookery

A morning at the bird sanctuary

Arrive before the sun, stay until the bullfrog stops. What dawn at Bald Head Island's bird sanctuary is actually like, with audio recorded on the spot.

Old Baldy lighthouse tower with weathered stucco behind a picket fence

Climbing Old Baldy

108 steps up North Carolina's oldest lighthouse: what the climb is like, what you see from the top, and why the tower looks like that.

A row of golf carts loaded with surfboards near the beach

Golf cart etiquette for first-timers

The unwritten rules of driving a golf cart on Bald Head Island: waving, passing, parking at the beach, and not becoming that visitor.