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Plenty to Do On Pleasure Island
Throughout the year, a variety of events take place on Pleasure Island, including the Island of Lights parade and flotilla during the Christmas season, the Seafood, Blues and Jazz Festival, weekly fireworks on Thursday nights during the tourist season, Beach Music Festival, Chowder Cook Off, freeconcerts twice a month in June, July and August and last, but not least, the New Year’s Celebration with fireworks and the famous ball drop from the end of a fire department ladder truck. It isn’t Times Square, but what the heck, it’s home.
Play Golf At Beau Rivage
Beau Rivage Golf and Resort, a par 72, 18-hole course that earned a 4-star rating from Golf Digest, is very convenient for those visiting Carolina Beach, Kure Beach and Fort Fisher.
It is the only club in Wilmington with its own resort featuring spacious, fully equipped and outfitted villas of 900 square feet offering stay and play packages at moderate prices. Practice facilities include an elevated driving range, chipping and pitching area with a sand bunker and “rough” grass as well as a putting green.
Greens at Beau Rivage are outstanding and the course drains very quickly, which is a blessing in an area that can receive a lot of rainfall in a short period of time. Watch out for the water – the greens are nestled up to the water on more than one hole.
J. Banks Guyton, who competed in the U.S. Senior Open, the PGA Seniors, the Western Open and is the former Carolinas Senior PGA Player of the Year, is the pro at Beau Rivage.
Especially For Kids
On Carolina Beach Road just before Snow’s Cut Bridge is Tregembo Animal Park, a charming 10-acre facility that houses animals in a parklike setting. Children of all ages with enjoy the 90 different species of live animals housed there, including giraffe, lion, tiger, zebra, bear, monkeys, wallaby, camel, pot-bellied pigs, lemurs and pygmy goats.