Couples Getaway Package
Couples Getaway Package at The Winds Resort Beach Club on nearby Ocean Isle Beach NC!
Bring your significant other to the beach for a relaxing, renewing weekend of togetherness and adventure with our Couples Getaway Package at The Winds Resort Beach Club on Ocean Isle Beach, NC
March 9,- May 23, 2012, the rate per person is from $198.00
Package Includes:
- Two Night’s Accommodation*
- 1 hour massage at Right Touch Therapy (Ocean Isle Beach) choice includes Swedish, Deep Tissue, and Hot Stone.
- Tour the Silver Coast Winery with a wine tasting.
- Welcome basket for each room.
- Hot Southern Breakfast Buffet each day.
- Complimentary bikes to explore the island.
- Daily Housekeeping.
- Free Aqua Zumba and Water Aerobic classes.
- Discounts to area restaurants and shops.
Click Here To Book This Package Online!
*Accommodations Are:
Two people in an oceanfront Jasmine Guest Room, Wisteria Mini Suite, Azalea Petite Suite or an Island View Camellia Guest Room.
Optional Add Ons (Available Online):
1) Add a bottle of Champagne to have waiting in your room:
2) Add dinner for two at choice of two nearby restaurants:
Roberto’s Italian Ristorante:
Dinner Includes: Wine and Beer (2 Drinks per person), your choice of Steak, Seafood, or Pasta from The Winds Menu, Salad or Soup, Dessert and Coffee. Reservations available Tuesday through Saturday.
Sharky’s Waterfront Restaurant (overlooking the intra-coastal waterway)
Dinner Includes: Entrees (any menu item), 4 Glasses of House Wine (per two people: 4 people receive 8 Glasses/8 receive 12 Glasses), Salad, Dessert, Non-alcoholic Beverages.
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Check Out Bird Island!
May 1, 2012 by gary
Filed under Around Town
Bird Island is an undeveloped barrier island located at the southwestern edge of the North Carolina coast, situated between the Town of Sunset Beach and the Little River Inlet in South Carolina. The Reserve site encompasses 1,481 acres consisting of approximately 135 upland acres and over 1,300 acres of marsh, intertidal flats, and subtidal area.
Download The Bird Island Site Brochure Here
The Reserve site represents excellent examples of barrier communities with several occurrences of rare species.
The following barrier island biotic communities are present: upper beach, dune grass, maritime dry grassland, maritime wet grassland, maritime shrub thicket, maritime shrub swamp, brackish marsh, salt shrub, salt flat, and salt marsh.
The most notable species of the island are nesting loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) and seabeach amaranth (Amaranthus pumilus), a plant of the foredune area.
Both species are listed as threatened by the federal and state governments.
Getting to Bird Island
Public access is primarily via the ocean beach on the Sunset Beach side, while boats may land on the beach associated with Little River Inlet on the South Carolina side. With the closure of Mad Inlet in 1999 following Hurricane Bonnie, the public may walk the length of the island at all times. The upland property begins at the boundary with Sunset Beach and continues about 0.9 miles until it meets the Corps of Engineers property approximately 0.4 miles from the state line. The sound and marsh areas of the Reserve may be reached by boat, depending on vessel draft and tide levels. Several tidal creeks (e.g. Bonaparte Creek, Clayton Creek, East River) are found within the site.
Visiting the site
To reach Bird Island by foot, drive to the intersection of 40th and Main Streets in Sunset Beach. Limited parking is available at the end of Main Street past the intersection. Overflow parking is along the street, provided the area is not marked as a non-parking zone and residential access is not blocked. Take the 40th street boardwalk beach access to the beach and turn right. Follow the beach until you reach signs indicating the boundary of the Reserve.
Bird Island is also home to the Kindred Spirit Mailbox
Be sure to pay a visit while you are there!
25th International Tee Party Tournament
April 25, 2012 by gary
Filed under Recreation
Have you ever wished that you could experience the thrill and excitement of playing in the RYDER or SOLHEIM CUPS? Well here is your opportunity….The 25th Annual North Carolina International Tee Party Golf Tournament, with accommodations provided by The Winds Resort Beach Club on Ocean Isle Beach NC, is the world’s largest international team event.
Now in its 25th consecutive year this extremely popular weeklong Ryder Cup style competition is held on 5 wonderful courses situated in the Brunswick Isles area of the Carolina coast, all within minutes of The Winds. The area is widely regarded as on of the “best” golf holiday destinations in the USA
The tournament will take place between the 27th October – 3rd November 2012 marking its Twenty Fifth anniversary!
This Ryder Cup style event is a mixed competition for all handicaps and just 20 minutes north of Myrtle Beach. A European Team of approximately 50 golfers will cross the Atlantic to challenge an American Team of the same number in a Ryder Cup style event in a mixed competition for all handicaps.
Competition takes place over four days on four of the area’s finest courses for the North Carolina “Tee Pot” Trophy. The week long event includes receptions, a mid week barbecue, an awards banquet and golf on some of the area’s finest courses.
Come join us to enjoy great golf, great accommodations and great Camaraderie!
For more information please contact Mel O’Daniels The Winds’ Golf Director: melodaniels@thewinds.com
Sharkys Is Food & Fun!
Sharky’s Waterfront Restaurant does fried shrimps, panko crusted shrimps, hush puppies with shrimps in ‘em, chilled spiced shrimps, salads with shrimps, boiled shrimps…
Well you get the message – see their new menu to see all the ways they do shrimps! Then there’s them oysters -don’t get me started! Better just go on by and try ‘em with a cold beer or other beverage.
At Sharky’s you can enjoy great food overlooking a fabulous view of the waterway. You can tie up your boat at Sharky’s dock. Thoroughly casual, Sharky’s is fun for the whole family.
Located by the bridge at nearby Ocean Isle Beach, Sharky’s is a great destination to go by boat (or by car).
The new menu at Sharky’s offers a wide selection from Lite Bites (Panko Crusted Shrimp, Calypso Ribs, Oyster & Corn Chowder, etc.), hand tossed pizza, a nice selection of hot and cold subs, soups and salads as well as daily specials such as Grouper, Mahi Mahi and more.
Come check out the new improved Sharky’s
Beach Equipment Rentals
Vacation Equipment Rental provides all the items you need to make your dream vacation become a reality: sheets and towels, beach chairs and umbrellas, cribs and high chairs, TVs and DVD players, bicycles, grills, kayaks, golf carts and more.
With Free Delivery & Pickup From Your Vacation Home! We work with your vacation rental property manager who will provide us with access to your condominium or beach home prior to check-in and check-out. You will not have to be present for delivery or pick-up. Website: http://vacationequipmentrentals.com \800-213-2901 910-575-2700 Email: info@ver-nc.com
Roberto’s Ristorante
Roberto’s Ristorante offers fine dining in a casual atmosphere with full service bar.
The menu features steaks, seafood and traditional italian dishes as well as fantastic pizzas and pasta. Chef David Gundrum goes out of his way to please any appetite.
Roberto’s Ristorante is located on the mainland just a few minutes from Sunset Beach. Go over the bridge to the mainland and head east on Beach Drive (highway 179) towards Ocean Isle Beach. Roberto’s Ristorante is on the right, just a couple of miles from the intersection at Seaside..
Robertos has been family owned and operated at Ocean Isle Beach since 1985.
Roberto’s Ristorante, 6737 Beach Drive Ocean Isle Beach, NC 28469
http://www.robertosnc.com Business:(910) 579-6999
Sugar Shack – Jamaican Dining
Make your “island escape” to Sunset Beach complete with a trip to The Sugar Shack – an authentic Jamaican restaurant -just a few minutes from Sunset Beach. Go over the bridge to the mainland and head east on Beach Drive (highway 179) towards Ocean Isle Beach. The Sugar Shack is on the right, just across the street from the Lowes Food Grocery Store.
Sugar Shack features authentic Jamaican home cooking (yes, the chef/owner is Jamaican) in a colorful, intimate setting about a mile from the beach. Amid greenery, tropical artwork and floral table coverings, recorded reggae music adds a lively island feel, while live music is offered on weekends.
The house specialty is a huge steak, marinated, slowly grilled and richly flavored. But the flavorful jerk selections, served with a hot ‘n’ sweet sauce, are the highlight of their delightful menu that also includes Stamp & Go (a traditional spicy cod fritter), Brown Stewed Fish (slowly cooked red snapper) and a curried goat so tender it literally falls off the bone. But be sure someone in your group gets the award-winning baby back ribs.
Nothing is too spicy for the average palate, but imported hot sauce is available if you want to hurt yourself. Some appetizers are enough for a meal, and the Jamaican Sampler is a good introduction. Other offerings include a grilled mango tuna, spiced-just-right crab fritters, homemade soups, great burgers and nightly specials, such as lightly fried coconut shrimp served with mango-pepper marmalade. Then you just need to top it all off with a luscious slice of homemade Key lime pie. Guinness and Red Stripe beer are served. Take-out orders are welcome.
Sugar Shack is one block west of the intersection of Ocean Isle Beach Road, a few yards off N.C. 179. Sugar Shack is open nightly for dinner in summer and Tuesday through Saturday off-season. Live entertainment is featured on Saturday nights. Reservations are strongly suggested.
Holden Brothers Farm Market
April 1, 2012 by gary
Filed under Attractions
Located on Highway 17, about 1o minutes from Sunset Beach (just about a half mile south of the entrance road to Ocean Isle Beach), The Holden Brothers Farm Market is a great place to check out any time of year. But especially in the Fall. Read more
Martha Pope’s “Best Buy Picks”
March 27, 2012 by gary
Filed under Real Estate
Each month local Realtor and Accredited Buyer Representative Martha Pope picks what she considers some of the best values in the Real Estate market for each of the towns of Southeastern NC.
To see this month’s Martha’s “Best Buy Picks” for Sunset Beach CLICK HERE!
To have this list emailed to you in her monthly “Martha’s Picks” Newsletter just sign up in the box provided on the right side of her website!
6th Annual Sunset at Sunset
Mark your calendar for Saturday, Oct. 6 2012 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the 6th Annual Sunset at Sunset Festival at Sunset Beach, NC.
Sunset at Sunset begins at 10:00 near the Ingram Planetarium. Last year over 4,000 people attended!
The 2012 Sunset at Sunset event will be fabulous! New vendors, new events, great music and tons of fun for everyone are in the plans.
Again this year is the 5K Beach Run/Fitness Walk for Adults and a Children’s Fun Run.
Vendors interested in joining in can sign up here early to get a great location!
2011 applications for Food Vendors, Exhibitors, Non-profit organizations, and Volunteers are posted.
There’s also a photography contest with “waterscapes” as the theme. The top 20 winning photos will be featured in The Ingram Planetarium’s pre-show. Prizes will be awarded to the top three winners.
Information is available at the Sunset at Sunset website.
Also Author/ Illustrator Miller Pope and celebrated novelist Jacqueline DeGroot will be on hand signing their new hard cover, coffee table edition history of Sunset Beach entitled “Sunset Beach A History”.
The book is a full history of Sunset Beach NC with stories from many of the “old timers” who were eye witnesses to events. Some are funny, some are shocking – all are fascinating.
No true Sunset Beach Lover should be without this book!
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