Bald head

Why would anyone want to live in a place called Bald Head? Well, it is an island. Web search Bald Head Island on Google Maps. Zoom out. Watch as the island sets at the southeastern end of a large rift off the North Carolina coast, a characteristic feature of hurricane work for thousands of years. Don’t go there if an Atlantic hurricane moves north along the east coast. Any other time is great! The community is welcoming and great!

You will have to travel to Bald Head Island by passenger ferry. Head over to find the Bald Head Island Ferry on the western side of the Cape Fear River. You will park your car there, buy a round trip ticket, and then enjoy the ferry ride to the island, where golf carts are the means of transportation. Bald Head got its name from someone long ago who noticed that the large sand dunes behind the beaches looked like a bunch of bald heads. Not wanting to waste a good name, when the 1795 lighthouse was replaced in 1816, it was named “Bald Old Man.” This lighthouse is open to visitors.

Some films have been produced on the island. You can recognize the backdrop from the movie “Weekend at Bernie’s.” The island has a golf course. I noticed that two of the main golf cart trails that pass near the course are named after pirates: Edward Teach and Stede Bonnet. In the United States, we stopped hearing about active pirates in the mid-1700s, probably around the time the first inhabitants arrived on Bald Head Island. So where did the pirates go? Did they become golfers?

There is a wedding chapel on the island, but there are no organized churches. It’s sad, but the ferry works both ways. There are many Christian churches on the continent. As you take the ferry across the mouth of the Cape Fear River, you will pass the North Carolina Baptist Assembly on your left. They run a Christian retreat, and they own a fort!

I have read articles that attest that the pirates of the Atlantic and the Caribbean are Christians. Some details describe the new recruits as members of pirate crews at a ceremony. The initiates laid a hand on the Bible. Other articles mention a chaplain as part of the crew. My explanation: In the 17th and 18th centuries, many poor young men were kidnapped in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales and forced to serve as sailors on merchant ships and in the British Navy. Many of those abducted were probably Christians.

How could you Would you react if a pirate crew defeated your oppressors and offered you an equal share of the loot if you willingly joined them? People who become Christians are sinners who believe that God allowed his son, Jesus, to be sacrificed for the sin of mankind. Christians try to be worthy of God’s grace while practicing that belief, whether they are pirates, golfers, or like you or me.