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Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, Rodanthe

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Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge reviews

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By HistoryLover2017

This past Sunday was a beautiful sunny day with low wind, so my husband and I headed to Pea Island. We first stopped at the end of the Basnight Bridge - where you can still walk on a part of the...

This past Sunday was a beautiful sunny day with low wind, so my husband and I headed to Pea Island. We first stopped at the end of the Basnight Bridge - where you can still walk on a part of the... more »
By jamie_sue_12

This trail is .6 miles with an endpoint. Easy walk through wetlands on the sound side teeming with many kinds of birds. There's a turtle pond also, but the turtles weren't active while we were there..... more

This trail is .6 miles with an endpoint. Easy walk through wetlands on the sound side teeming with many kinds of birds. There's a turtle pond also, but the turtles weren't active while we were there..... more »
By RANGERmary23

Pea Island is birders paradise. In the winter months thousands of waterfowl show up to spend time on the ponds. Tundra swans, white pelicans, Ibis, egrets and about every duck species you can think..... more

Pea Island is birders paradise. In the winter months thousands of waterfowl show up to spend time on the ponds. Tundra swans, white pelicans, Ibis, egrets and about every duck species you can think..... more »

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By Brian Noga

Nice walk around the wildlife refuge and close to the beach.

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By Anthony Brooks

Cool spot to hang at the beach! Nice and remote. Not a lot of people! Nice beach!

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By Stormy

Great place to find sea glass and seashells. If you want to find seaglass go to the places that have gravel on the sand. If you want to find seashells, go to the spot closest to the water.

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By Diàne Weiss

This island is so quiet and serene. Be careful where you park, stick to the parking areas unless you have 4 wheel drive. We had the whole beach to ourselves. I am a serious sheller, so I was very happy. There were many to be found but the surf was very rough so many were broken. None the less, very serene just to walk the beach. A must do.

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By Ralph Mac

Had a great experience here! Everywhere I went; sewer pipes, catacombs, opera houses, I was met with nothing but the finest demons and ghouls and was provided with the finest service any undead have ever provided. However on the south side of the island on the west side of highway twelve I ran into a particularly troublesome poltergeist but was able to subdue it. There was man...

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