The largest undisturbed barrier island along the southern part of the North Carolina coast is Masonboro Island, located approximately five miles southeast of Wilmington NC. The Masonboro site is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway to the west, Masonboro Inlet to the north and Carolina Beach Inlet to the south.

Photo taken June 10, 2007 with Canon G7.

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I took this with full zoom at 10 mpx, then cropped to this shot of me watching the three boaters, watching the two hotshots on their wave runners in the marshy backwater by Masonboro Island. The vast Atlantic Ocean backdrops.

“Evidence suggests that the first stretch of continental American coastline described by a European explorer may have been the beach now called Masonboro Island. The explorer was Giovanni da Verrazzano, the year, 1524. During the Civil War, Masonboro’s beaches were visited by three blockade runners and one Union blockader.” read more

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