On Monday I took the passenger ferry from Southport, North Carolina to Bald Head Island for a day of beach combing and hiking.
The island is an exclusive 1% kind of place. Summer cottages for sale here are mostly in the $1M to $3M price range (see real estate listings here). For me one of the best indicators of class distinctives on Bald Head is that the island’s only market sells about twenty five different kinds of olive oil - one for every imaginable high-socioeconomic-status taste. It’s a community that most of us could only afford to enjoy as day-trippers (or as the hired help), and even so, access is expensive. This day-tripper spent $100 just on boat fares and golf-cart rental for the day.
But I didn’t linger in the grocery store. I was there to be outdoors. On a cold, off-season December day I had miles of beach and forest trail entirely to myself.
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