Photos from Holden Beach, NC – Thanksgiving 2024

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Two pelicans watching me approach in my kayak, Holden Beach, North Carolina
Two pelicans watching me approach in my kayak

Over the Thanksgiving week, I had the amazing opportunity to go to Holden Beach, North Carolina, and spend the entire week with family. It was such fun. I didn’t get pictures of everything, but here are a few of the photos I took along the way! There will be more pictures coming; for one thing, I’d like to do a post about my kayak trip around Sheep Island (sort of between Holden Beach and Oak Island, only closer to Oak Island). But for now, here are some of my favorite snaps from last week. Enjoy!

Sea birds in the sunset over the Atlantic Ocean, Holden Beach, North Carolina
Sea birds in the sunset
A great blue heron sitting on our dock on the Intracoastal Waterway, Holden Beach, North Carolina
A great blue heron sitting on our dock on the Intracoastal Waterway
Sunset over the Intracoastal Waterway, Holden Beach, North Carolina
Sunset over the Intracoastal Waterway
Our kayak trip to Sheep Island began with seeing this brown pelican... Holden Beach, North Carolina
Our kayak trip to Sheep Island began with seeing this brown pelican…
And this brown pelican. Did you know that pelicans have blue eyes? Holden Beach, North Carolina
And this brown pelican. Did you know that pelicans have blue eyes?
We made the treacherous crossing between Holden Beach and Oak Island (much safer when the tide is coming in than going out) and saw these Black Skimmers flying, North Carolina
We made the treacherous crossing between Holden Beach and Oak Island (much safer when the tide is coming in than going out) and saw these Black Skimmers flying
A better picture of the Black Skimmers on Oak Island, North Carolina
A better picture of the Black Skimmers
We landed on on Sheep Island and found these tracks - I'd guess they were made by a heron of one type or another, but they were huge! Oak Island, North Carolina
We landed on on Sheep Island and found these tracks – I’d guess they were made by a heron of one type or another, but they were huge!
Views from a high point on Sheep Island and looking toward Holden Beach, North Carolina
Views from a high point on Sheep Island looking toward Holden Beach
A tricolored heron on the shore shortly after we returned to our kayaks on Sheep Island near Oak Island, North Carolina
A tricolored heron on the shore shortly after we returned to our kayaks
Paddling around Sheep Island, Oak Island, North Carolina
Paddling around Sheep Island
A white ibis and a willet looking for lunch in the incoming tide near Sheep Island and Oak Island, North Carolina
A white ibis and a willet looking for lunch in the incoming tide
More black skimmers at the other end of Sheep Island near Oak Island, North Carolina
More black skimmers at the other end of Sheep Island
Funny signs... they seem to come out of the roof of the house! (They're actually on the bridge that takes you off the island!) Holden Beach, North Carolina
Funny signs… they seem to come out of the roof of the house! (They’re actually on the bridge that takes you off the island!)
Sea oats in the sunset on Holden Beach, North Carolina
Sea oats in the sunset
Long exposure of the Intracoastal Waterway. One boat was towing another. Holden Beach, North Carolina
Long exposure of the Intracoastal Waterway. One boat was towing another.
The "Ponca" on its way back to its home port in South Carolina from Holden Beach, North Carolina
The “Ponca” on its way back to its home port in South Carolina
The sun dips into the Atlantic Ocean, Holden Beach, North Carolina
The sun dips into the Atlantic Ocean
More sea oats in the sunset, Holden Beach, North Carolina
More sea oats in the sunset

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