Carteret County’s tourism took another hit recently when a property owner with a quitclaim deed to sand dunes paralleling portions of the Atlantic Beach sought to deny visitors the ability to cross his newly acquired property to access the public beach. Visitors to our beaches are not interested in property right disputes and absent a quick conclusion to this issue, the county’s reputation as a visitor friendly community may be damaged.
James Anthony Bunn has notified numerous beachfront property owners in Atlantic Beach that he now owns the dunes in front of their properties and that their continued access to the beach amounts to trespassing.