JULY 25TH, SATURDAY
We drove the 50 miles over to Carolina Beach and Fort Fisher, braving all the incoming beach traffic to Topsail Island (fortunately coming in while we were leaving). Then there was that always horrible Wilmington traffic where it seems everyone drives all the time.
Stopped at Britt's Donuts in Carolina Beach for our pastry fix for lunch. Then went to Fort Fisher, several miles down the peninsula and heard an interesting talk on the always controversial Confederate General Braxton Bragg and went through the museum. I spent a lot of time at the new (to me) reproduction of the 150-pdr Armstrong gun.
Drove the short distance to "The Rocks" at the end of the peninsula. This is also the southern terminus of US Highway 421. We had excellent fish and shrimp baskets at Big Daddy's at Kure Beach and then got to go inside a beach cottage at Kure Beach that was identical to the one that my grandparents used to own at Carolina Beach until it was destroyed in 1954 by Hurricane Hazel.
A Busy Day. --RoadDog
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Aye, 'Tis a Beach Life for Me-- Part 3
Drove back past Fort Fisher to Kure Beach and took a ride along the ocean to a cottage that was built in the 1930s and looks just like the one my grandparents had on Carolina Beach's Southern Extension that was destroyed by Hurricane Hazel in 1954. I mean, there was not a trace left of it. It is a rental and we've thought of renting it or looking at it to see if the interior is the same, not that I would remember because I was just three when Hazel came a-knockin', well, slammin'..
Next, we drove by where the old cottage was in Carolina Beach. A cottage has since been built on the site, which is oceanfront. There is a bit of Civil War history in front of the cottage. The Civil War blockade-runner Beauregard was run aground and destroyed in 1863. The upperworks of it can be still seen at low tide.
My Great Aunt Annie Mae had a cottage directly across the street that her family has since sold. We used to stay there a lot after Hurricane Hazel. The downstairs was enclosed and was part sand where we used a shower head to clean off the salt and sand when returning from the beach. Sand that has not had sunlight is not pleasant, let me tell you. That old "Under the Boardwalk" song is so wrong. I can't imagine a worse place to be.
A Walk On the Boardwalk and Britt's Next. --RoadDog
Next, we drove by where the old cottage was in Carolina Beach. A cottage has since been built on the site, which is oceanfront. There is a bit of Civil War history in front of the cottage. The Civil War blockade-runner Beauregard was run aground and destroyed in 1863. The upperworks of it can be still seen at low tide.
My Great Aunt Annie Mae had a cottage directly across the street that her family has since sold. We used to stay there a lot after Hurricane Hazel. The downstairs was enclosed and was part sand where we used a shower head to clean off the salt and sand when returning from the beach. Sand that has not had sunlight is not pleasant, let me tell you. That old "Under the Boardwalk" song is so wrong. I can't imagine a worse place to be.
A Walk On the Boardwalk and Britt's Next. --RoadDog
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