• As low as $5,050 - $10,000/Week
  • 8 Bedrooms
  • 9 Bathrooms
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General Features

  • 1 Highchair
  • 11 TVs
  • 2 Dogs welcome with fee
  • 2 Half Baths
  • 2 Queens
  • 2025 Pool Heat Cost: $500.00
  • 2025 Pool Open: 4/5/2025 - 10/18/2025
  • 2026 Pool Heat Cost: $500.00
  • 2026 Pool Open: 4/4/2026 - 10/24/2026
  • 28.0 x 13.0 Private Pool
  • 3 Outdoor Showers
  • 3 Pyramid Bunks
  • 4 Kings
  • 8 Bedrooms (8 Private Baths)
  • 8 Full Baths
  • 8 Parking Spaces
  • Elevator
  • Gas Grill
  • Home Theater
  • Hot Tub
  • Located in Whalehead In Corolla
  • Oceanfront
  • Oceanfront Home
  • Recreation Room
  • Saturday check-in
  • Seasonal Fireplace(Oct-Mar)

About this Property

  • 8 Bedrooms
  • 9 Bathrooms

Overview

Sun Catcher captures all that the Outer Banks has to offer in a beautiful oceanfront Whalehead estate. Every thoughtful detail--the oceanfront pool and hot tub, the game room with kitchenette, a private bath for each bedroom--all reflect the owner's thorough planning and careful anticipation of your vacation needs. A well stocked kitchen includes a refrigerator, two cooktops, two ovens, two dishwashers, and a butler's pantry, offering ample space to prepare a vacation meal. Awake to the ocean sunrise with fabulous oceanfront views. Sit under the vaulted ceilings and look out the Palladian windows of the great room, dining rooms or loft, or enjoy a drink on the screened in porch or expansive decks around the house. Fill your days with fun at the beach with direct ocean access from your own dune deck, or relax on the sun deck overlooking your private pool and hot tub. After sunset, Sun Catcher continues to glow with music, a game room and big screen televisions and surround sound stereos. Take a short walk to nearby dining and shops of Timbuck II or a cool stroll on a moonlit beach. The pleasure and enjoyment are unlimited at Sun Catcher. Book early, you'll be back every year!

Ground Floor

  • Rec room with kitchenette
  • King with private bath
  • Bedroom with two pyramid bunks and private bath
  • Laundry

A central rec room contains a pool table, 50" Samsung Smart TV, kitchenette with refrigerator, as well as a sliding glass door that opens up to the pool area, with hot tub, cabana bar, and stairs to the private beach walkway. Bedroom layout includes one king and another with two pyramid bunks, both with their own private bath. Laundry and the elevator entrance are located on this floor.

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First Floor

  • Theater
  • Two kings with private baths
  • Two queens with private baths
  • Bedroom with pyramid bunk and private bath

A home theater room features luxe tiered seating with eight chairs, 65'' flat screen LED-LCD TV, 7.1 Yamaha surround sound, and Playstation IV/Blu-ray player + Spectrum TV Gold, which includes premium channels. Bedroom options include two kings, both with ocean views and private baths. Bedroom options also include two queens and a pyramid bunk that all have private baths and deck access to wraparound covered decks. All bedrooms have flat screen TVs.

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Second Floor

  • Great room
  • Dining area
  • Kitchen
  • Butler's pantry
  • Screened-in porch
  • King with private bath

The open floor plan of the top level incorporates the living space with a seasonal gas fireplace and Smart TV, two dining tables, and the kitchen. There is also a butler's pantry which includes an undercounter beverage cooler. Keurig and traditional coffee makers are both provided. A screened porch offers an outdoor space to dine. A loft provides two cozy swivel chairs. The king bedroom on this level features stunning ocean views, a seasonal gas fireplace, Samsung 42" Smart TV, and a private bathroom with a walk-in tile shower, soaking tub, and double sinks.

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Updates for 2025: Theater room renovation, subject to change until complete. New screened porch furniture and two new dishwashers.

Updates for 2024: Pool table refinished, fresh exterior paint around the pool area, and new grill.

Updates for 2023: An outdoor foosball table and chaise loungers were added to the pool area, new great room furniture and carpet, flooring on top floor and stairs refinished, new stovetops and icemaker in kitchen, new wine fridge in Butler's pantry, all new comforters and blankets, new furniture in top floor king bedroom, new shower curtains in all bathrooms, new refrigerator in rec room, new furniture in theater, fortified beach walkway with the addition of steps to the beach.

Pool: Pool heated by heat pump. Ambient air temperature of 60 degrees or higher is needed to heat the pool, meaning that if the temperature drops below 60 degrees the pump will not continue to heat. Max pool temperature is 80 degrees.

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The Cotton Gin

For those traveling to the Outer Banks, The Cotton Gin is a beloved landmark with its large windmill and picturesque gardens. The Cotton Gin has stood in the same location since 1929, starting as a working cotton gin and growing to a gift store with 4 locations. Visitors are treated to a unique shopping experience in our main store in Jarvisburg, as well as our beach stores in Corolla, Duck, and Nags Head. Explore room after room filled with décor for your home and coastal fashions for both men and women. Discover the brands you really want, like, Vera Bradley, Vineyard Vines, La Mer Luex, Simply Southern, Lindsay Phillips, Scout, Pandora, Kameleon, Brighton, Spartina, Tommy Bahama, Southern Tide and Salt Life and Old Guys Rule - all under one roof!

 

Don’t forget the gourmet market, or shop our beautiful linens for your bedroom and bath. We also feature coastal books and fine art, or just a whimsical fun gift to bring home to family and friends. Stop by soon and don’t forget to try our estate grown wines in our stores or visit our vineyard and winery, Sanctuary Vineyards, located adjacent to the original Cotton Gin in Jarvisburg.

 

Most know The Cotton Gin as a must-stop shop for fine gifts, beachwear, souvenirs and so much more, but this retailer has a long-standing history within the Outer Banks. A local landmark that holds almost a century of memories, The Cotton Gin started from humble beginnings and continues to adapt to the times and tourists. Tommy Wright’s family has been in the Outer Banks for nearly 200 years. His great-great grandfather, Jacob Francis Wright, shipwrecked in Duck back in the early 1800s. Calling these barrier islands his new home, Wright and his family acclimated to their new environment.

 

Adaptation is a common theme for the Wright family. Tommy and his wife Candace, who continue to steer The Cotton Gin, have seen not only their business change with the times, but the Outer Banks as a vacation destination as well. A farm market in Jarvisburg eventually transformed and flourished into several retail locations dotting the Outer Banks.

 

“As the area changed and tourism took off in the 1960s, the family saw people coming for vacations, so they began to grow vegetables and things developed from there,” says Tommy Wright. The Wright family expanded upon the farm market and began to remodel a working cotton gin, later transforming the gin into The Cotton Gin general store in the late 1960s. While the additions to the farm store drew visitors, it was their encounters with the Wright family that kept people coming back year after year, which is something that remains true today.

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