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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 Echo Farms
Golfers vacationing on Pleasure Island will enjoy nearby Echo Farms, an 18 hole championship course with a Scottish links feel. Echo Farms is situated along the Cape Fear River and takes full advantage of the natural features of coastal terrain and its bunkers and water features provide a challenge for golfers of all skill levels. Sandwiches and drinks are available for pre or post-match play at the Echo Farms Clubhouse, which is located in a renovated bottling barn, a reminder that the facility was built on what had previously been a dairy farm.
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.