Welcome to Pleasure Island!
We already know the beach will be a major part of your trip, and perhaps boating and fishing too. But what if you’re sunburned? What if its raining? Or, just maybe you want to see what else there is to do around here.
Well, we’ve compiled a comprehensive list that will help you on those days when sitting in your beach chair with a good book just isn’t enough.
We hope you will have as much fun on your vacation as we do living here, and locals, you should try this stuff too!

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The road from Monkey Junction offers something for every equestrian!

Growing up in the late 1940s and ‘50s in a small textile village, many adventurous young men boasted of their hunting and fishing accomplishments along the mighty Haw River. The one tale that greatly captivated James H. Stout and his friends was the challenge of floating in a flat-bottom river boat to the Cape Fear River, and then on to the Atlantic Ocean, some 200 miles by water from my home in Haw River. Here is the firsthand account of their trip down the river.