Credits

Photo & data credits

Most photos on this site are our own, taken on Oak Island, Caswell Beach and Southport by the people who run this guide, plus the wildlife set by Shane Gillespie. They are cropped at most, never AI-generated or AI-enhanced, and they carry an "Oak Island Visitors" mark. The illustrations on some older pages come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under the licenses shown below. CC BY-SA photos are resized and compressed only; those resized versions are shared under the same license.

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Own photos (Photos page, Southport, parks, marsh, Davis Canal)© Oak Island Visitors. Please ask before reusing (feedback page)
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Wildlife photos© Shane Gillespie, used with permission
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VideosShown with YouTube's standard embed; each video belongs to its creator, named under it
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Wikimedia Commons photos

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Cape Fear River - Southport - panoramio (10).jpgby David Broad · CC BY 3.0 · resized for the web
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Oak Island NC Sunset.jpgby Michael Au · CC BY 2.0 · resized for the web
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Oak Island Light North Carolina.jpgby Thomas Shaw · CC BY-SA 4.0 · resized for the web
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Oak Island coast (24051204075).jpgby Tom Long from Oak Island, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized for the web
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Surf Casting on Oak Island (32724941670).jpgby Tom Long from Oak Island, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized for the web
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Oak island 20th st scenic walkway ncwetlands KG (8).jpgby ncwetlands.org · CC0 · resized for the web
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Oak Island SE 9th St ncwetlands AM (29).jpgby ncwetlands.org · CC0 · resized for the web
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Oak Island Winter Sunrise (24024754796).jpgby Tom Long from Oak Island, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized for the web
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Oak Island sunset.jpgby Patrick Reynolds · CC BY-SA 4.0 · resized for the web
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Oak Island (24276935875).jpgby Tom Long from Oak Island, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized for the web
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Oak Island (32569841673).jpgby Tom Long from Oak Island, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized for the web
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Oak island 20th st scenic walkway ncwetlands KG (3).jpgby ncwetlands.org · CC0 · resized for the web
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Oak island 20th st scenic walkway ncwetlands KG (9).jpgby ncwetlands.org · CC0 · resized for the web
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Ocean Crest Pier (12587731375).jpgby Tom Long from Oak Island, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized for the web
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Sunrising behind the Ocean Crest Pier on Oak Island (23422522414).jpgby Tom Long from Oak Island, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized for the web
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Oak Island (24024773156).jpgby Tom Long from Oak Island, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized for the web
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Winter Sunrise (12562846473).jpgby Tom Long from Oak Island, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized for the web
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Oak Island NC–Fishing Pier.jpgby Paul Arps · CC BY 2.0 · resized for the web
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Data

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Beach accesses, parking, parks, docks, walkoversTown of Oak Island public ArcGIS layers
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Marsh boardwalk outlines; restaurant, shop and Southport listings© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, checked against each business's own site
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Beach rules, parking, turtle season, bonfire permits, Beach Safety, mobility devicesTown of Oak Island pages and Code of Ordinances, linked on each page
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Caswell Beach parking, golf carts and lighthouseTown of Caswell Beach and Oak Island Lighthouse pages
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Ferry schedules and faresNCDOT Ferry Division (Southport–Fort Fisher) and Bald Head Island Transportation (Deep Point)
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Satellite imageryEsri World Imagery (Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics)
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Tides & water temperatureNOAA CO-OPS: tide predictions from station 8659182 (Oak Island, Yaupon Beach); water temperature from the nearest reporting sensor in the Wrightsville Beach / Wilmington area (NDBC-CORMP buoys 41110, 41038, 41037, Johnnie Mercers Pier, NOAA 8658163, or the Wilmington river gauge), named in the tile. No sensor on Oak Island reports water temperature.
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Forecast & beach forecast linkNational Weather Service, Wilmington NC (ILM) · Surf Zone Forecast NCZ110
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