Sat, Oct 17 · 5:00 PM EDT
Have you always wanted to go to Paradise but didn't know where it was located? Look no further because we found it on Ocracoke Island, Outer Banks (OBX), NC. It is better than Negril, Jamaica, or Key West, with 16 miles of almost deserted beach; it's your own private island! Its beach was rated better than Hawaii for multiple years.
The weather is perfect on the island in Oct (I've been twice before) in the 70's and no bugs! The Gulf stream keeps the water warm all year!
One bedroom is available in a house across from Springer's Point Nature reserve with hiking paths and beach on Pamlico sound. The house is not on the beach or sound. You have to walk a short distance to get to the sound beach.
The cottage has WiFi, washer/dryer kitchen (fully equipped but no dishwasher), dining area, one full bathroom (and an outside shower) and living room with cable TV and movies and games and books, and a screened-in porch. Porch has a table, swinging chair, and chairs, and there's a deck. Off street parking. Sheets and towels are provided (Don't forget your beach towel and chair!)
There are no hotels/motels or houses on the beach because Ocracoke Island is a wildlife preserve. Very few people live there (~600) or go to all the beach spots, so in some spots on the beach you can go naked if you wish! They have great restaurants and a fresh seafood market and a marvelous grocery store.
Activities: There's parasailing (~$60-80), sailing (sunset sail $50), fishing trips and boat rentals, 4x4 Jeep rentals (~$125/4 hrs.), bikes ($45/wk.), kayaks and canoes (~$85/wk.), stand up boards, all day tours of nearby historic Portsmouth island with deserted beach and perfect shells (~$40), golf cart rentals, two different places to go on nature hikes (free), wild horses penned up, great food at their gourmet and regular restaurants and cooking out on our grill with fresh fish from the seafood market; it's a surreal place. Or you can just relax and read a book. A week isn't enough!
You can be on your own most of the time if you choose, but if you like we can get together for special events like sunset sail, nature hikes, excursion to Hatteras, Portsmouth boat trip, live bands, and some dinners and lunches. You don't have to hang with me and my dog all the time, you can do whatever you like!
You can send money via Venmo @DIANNEE-GODAR or you can give me cash in person, and I'll write you a receipt. Possible payment plan if needed.
I can send pictures of the house and the island and links to the island's pictures and activities upon request just send me your email address and phone number so I can text pictures as well.
You can shorten your drive by 2.5 hrs. and save on gas if you take the ferry from Swan's Quarters, NC that costs $15! Well worth it and highly recommended. Make your reservation ahead of time. Here is the link for the $15 ferry (last one is at 4:30 pm but be there by 4 pm and don't be late!):
No smoking is allowed in the house, but you can smoke on the side deck.
I can text you the address and door code so you can go directly to the house after 5 pm or we can meet at SMacNally's for dinner on the water first and then go to the house. Your choice.
You can send money via Venmo @DIANNEE-GODAR or you can give me cash in person, and I'll write you a receipt. Possible payment plan if needed.
All aboard, mates!
