Sunset Beach and Bird Island are the Southernmost Islands of North Carolina’s Brunswick Barrier Islands. Access is by a one lane pontoon bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway. Sunset Beach has more of a “beachcomber” feeling than the larger beaches on the Grand Strand. As you walk toward the west end of the beach it joins with Bird Island, a 1,300 acre uninhabited state preserve, that provides important habitat and nesting areas for threatened or endangered birds as well as the Loggerhead Sea Turtle. Along the beach near the dunes you will find a bench and a mailbox—“The Kindred Spirit Mailbox” Here you can sit and read “personal notes” written in journals or on slips of paper or perhaps share your own thoughts with those to come-
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