The perfect family vacation involves a combination of equal parts of good planning and good luck. You may find the perfect location, but your vacation accommodations come up lacking—or you may find the perfect vacation accommodations, but the area you choose to stay in doesn’t have activities that appeal to every member of your family.

Fortunately, by choosing an Ocean Isle Beach vacation in one of our spectacular McClure Realty Vacations homes, you may have created the unicorn of vacations—especially when you plan to visit during the pirate invasion of 2018. The Bald Head Island Pirate Festival, occurring June 15th through June 17th, offers a weekend of fun, excitement, and magic that will be enjoyed by travelers of all ages!

Say Ahoy to the North Carolina Pirate Festival, Matey!

2018 is the 300th anniversary of the passing of our favorite pirate, that scallywag Black Beard, and as such, the theme for the annual pirate invasion is Pirates Helping Pirates. Even as you are hunting for buried treasure, sword fighting with sworn enemies, and learning how to be the perfect pirate, you will also be doing a good deed. All proceeds will be donated to the Virgin Unite's BVI Community Support Appeal. For three days there will be parties and pancakes, battles and visits to Pirate Camps, and a Ghost Walk that may even offer the opportunity to make contact with the death day man of the hour, ole Black Beard himself! A Sea Battle between two pillaging pirate ships promises to be the event of the weekend, but to be perfectly honest, everything that goes on during the Bald Head Island Pirate Festival will be a blast!

Back at the Old Homestead

You’ll be safe and sound from dirty pirates at the North Carolina Pirate Festival, and the only scallywags in sight will be your own children as they apply the skills they learned over this fun weekend to their imaginative play time in the comfort of your McClure Realty Vacations summer escape. Reserve yours today and let the adventures begin; all good pirates deserve a bit of luxury in their lives!