Pleasure Island Brewery Invitational Event

Carolina Beaches Lake Park is the site of the Pleasure Island Brewery Invitational.
Saturday July 31, 2010 at 3:00pm till 8:00pm

 The event is being sponsored by two of Wilmington North Carolina’s radio stations, 106.7 and 103.7 The Bone. Proceeds benefit Pleasure Island Sea Turtle Project and NC Brewers Guild.
The lineup of participating breweries is impressive, coming from many states and countries.
Contact the Beacon House Inn our Carolina Beach bed and breakfast if you still need a room for the weekend.
For more information see the Good Vibes website.

King Mackerel fishing tournament at Carolina Beach, NC

This coming weekend on July 9th through July 11th, 2010 is the East Coast Got-Em-On Classic tournament. The top prize is $20,000.00. Wow now that’s a fishing tournament to get your boats and fishing poles out of the garage for. While you’re here visit the sponsors of the event for some more local flavor.

 Please visit the "East Coast Got-Em On" site for more details.

Behind the scenes at the NC Aquarium by Carolina Beach, NC

This summer you have the opportunity to look deeper into the hidden layers of the NC Aquarium down the road from Carolina Beach. The program will feature the traditional behind the scenes tour, which includes exploring animal quarantine, life support, food preparation, and access areas. The tour will then continue to the top of the Aquarium's largest exhibit, the Cape Fear Shoals, where participants will have the rare opportunity to view a live feeding of the 235,000 gallon tank from a newly created viewing deck. Sharks, stingrays, moray eels, spadefish, and other large fish call the exhibit home and will be swimming below during the tour. You will need to register for this 2 hour tour by calling 910-458-7468.
Scheduled dates are Monday July 5th, Wednesday July 7th, Friday July 9th, Monday July 12th and Friday July 16th.

Free Music events on Carolina Beach, NC

This week at the Carolina Beach Boardwalk Thursday night free music and fireworks event will feature The Bearded and the Slomski Brothers.

Slomski Brothers Theme Song!

North Carolinas coastline beach re-nourishment project.

This spring crews came to the North Carolina Coast to replenish the beaches. While some people don’t agree with this practice, it sure makes a huge difference in the size of the beaches. There is much more room to lounge on the sand and enjoy the waves.
Today I took these pictures to show you how beautiful the Carolina Beach area is now.

 

All the nice new sand has made all of our guests happy, there is so much more room now for everyone to have space to relax on a beach chair and maybe crack open that book you brought and get a little reading done.

 

The low waves today were just right for frolicking in the beautiful blue water.

So if you're wondering what our beaches look like I hope this will help you to decide to come and stay at The Beacon House Inn Bed and Breakfast in Carolina Beach for your summer vacation.

 

Oh look there's a spot just waiting for you.

Carolina Beaches Summer Music Events!

This year the Carolina Beach Boardwalk committee has lined up an exciting list of the best beach music bands around. These bands play during the summer Thursday nights starting at 6 pm, during these events you will also get to watch the fireworks on the beach at 9 pm. A new addition of an extra night of Fireworks and music will be hosted on holiday weekends.

These signs are located on the Boardwalk with the Line-up posted. Notice the added nights on Holiday weekends. While you’re there having a great time dancing and enjoying the music check out the souvenirs they have for sale to take home.

Sea Turtle nesting around Carolina Beach

Sea turtles have begun their yearly nesting on the North Carolina beaches. This past weekend 2 nests were found on Kure beach. On June 12th over at Bald Head Island a few Loggerhead turtles were spotted laying nests and to everyones surprise a large Leatherback turtle laid a nest.  Please read the whole story at The Island Times, 
Leatherback sea turtle photo by Andrew Niccum

Be on the look out for the orange roped off areas along our Beaches while you are staying in any of the Carolina Beach Hotels. When we hear of more nests we will be sure to post it here so keep an eye out.

If you would like to know more about our local Pleasure Island Sea Turtle Project volunteer group please visit their web site.