For North Carolinians, nothing evokes nostalgia for good times like the beach. Brunswick County is home to four popular beach destinations and to Calabash, a small town known (at least in North Carolina) as the seafood capital of the world.
Calabash was the first stop for my daughter Becca and me on a pretty weekend in March. Sitting along the Calabash River we feasted on fried shrimp, French fries, cole slaw, and hush puppies. That’s what we call a seafood dinner in our state! And yes, that’s water you see in that glass, not iced tea. Revoke our Tar Heel credentials if you will, neither Becca nor I like iced tea. Sunset Beach. A good number of people out on an early spring day.Next stop, Ocean Isle.Holden Beach, the site of many of my teenaged beach adventures.Oak Island, known to our family as Long Beach when we came here for many summers of Becca’s childhood.Sunset over the Cape Fear River in picturesque Southport. A beautiful end to a beautiful day.
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