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Cape Fear River

By Josh Humphries | Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 03:25 PM

We traveled to the very end of Pleasure Island through Kure Beach from Carolina Beach to Ft. Fisher State Park.

But we didn’t stop at the park, we kept going until we came to the end of U.S. 421. Just past the Battery Bucahanan Tour Stop is a stretch of rocks that cross the Cape Fear River to a small island.

You can walk out on the rocks and see all kinds of local wildlife like crabs and sea gulls and hundreds of hermit crabs scurrying around all over the place.

We watched a family trying to catch crabs with chicken bait tied to strings out in the river. This spot is free and really neat. Its a little out of the way but I’m sure its gorgeous at sunset.

We were going to take the ferry across the river to the town of South Port but ran out of time.

This guy and his family were crabbing in the Cape Fear River.

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