Bald Head Island is sort of like the Caribbean in NC. It's a short ferry ride from the quaint and beautiful town of Southport. Once on the island there are many things to do, including playing golf on a spectacular course.

The Bald Head Island Club's 18-hole seaside golf course winds its way over dunes, around lagoons, along the ocean, and through a maritime forest. Course designer George Cobb, who for 20 years was the lead consultant at Augusta National, left much of the terrain the way he found it, creating a course of almost unparalleled wild beauty. Many of the holes are so undisturbed, they are bordered by the still lively natural habitats of herons, egrets, foxes and alligators.

Awarded a coveted 4.5 stars from Golf Digest's Places to Play, the Bald Head Island Club Course has a slope rating of 139 and course rating ...

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Located at the northern end of Roanoke Island, the Mother Vine and its grapes may have been among those that Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe spotted in 1584 during their American expedition, sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh.  Having already toured the most abundant grape-growing regions of Europe, the explorers observed that North Carolina was “so full of grapes, as the very beating and surge of the Sea overflowed them. . . .” and pointed out that “in all the world the like abundance is not to be found.”

What the two saw was probably the agricultural work of Croatoans, who reportedly made wine from the white grape or vitis rotundifolia.  These grapes undoubtedly provided sustenance for the early settlers of the Lost Colony.  

When Ralph Lane served as Governor of Roanoke Island (1585), the settlement was divided between “planters” and “the colony.”  The planters unquestionably cultivated grapes where the Mother Vine now stands ...

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It is truly hard to believe—not so much in the way it looks (it looks just as its creator intended, semi-lewd) but hard to believe that the residents of Henderson allow Ricky Pearce’s “Legs” sculpture “represent” the town, located about 45 minutes north of Durham

 

Pearce, using concrete as his medium, has created a set of female legs, spread brazenly apart, that extend outward at angles for 40 and rising to 17 feet at the knees.  And, to fulfill the image, the shrubbery around  were the legs part is always neatly trimmed so that, seen from directly above, there’s no mistaking the ground work for anything but what it represents---you know what I mean.

 

Across the street, oddly, is a pair of high heel shoes. A trellis bridging the woman’s thighs says Reminiscing.

 

It must be seen to be believed.

 

It is in a rural part ...

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