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Holden Beach ~ Festival by the Sea 2011

Frank & Karen Baker    Owners ® Sunset Beach NC Homes For Sale: Real Estate Agent in Sunset Beach, NC


Holden Beach ~ Festival by the Sea 2011

Did you know about the “NC Festival by the Sea – Holden Beach 2011” a wonderful family event?? The Sunset Beach Team is back to remind you of another community event located in Holden Beach for the entire family to enjoy for FREE!!


Holden Beach, NC


Saturday, October 29, 2011

Sunday, October 30, 2011


The last full weekend in October, the Holden Beach Merchants Association hosts the very popular “NC Festival by the Sea.” This 2 day events is kicked off with a parade down the Holden Beach causeway. This is the only day of the year that you can walk across the Holden Beach bridge and each year several hundred take that high altitude stroll to stake out the perfect spot to view the parade.

Arts and Crafts vendors are open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Sat. and 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on Sun.
You’ll also want to plan to be on site for at least a couple of meals and a snack or two, just to sample a tiny portion of the food on hand.

Horseshoe game
For the competitive sort, there is a horseshoe tournament and a sandcastle building contest. Children enjoy face painting, huge kites flying overhead and the children’s rides and amusements. There is live musical entertainment both days at Holden Beach’s new Pavilion.

The North Carolina Festival by the Sea is a FREE event with plenty of FREE parking.


Sand Sculpture


SATURDAY, OCT. 29

8:45 – Causeway Parade participant/float lineup
9am-5pm – Arts, Crafts, & Food Vendors
10am – Causeway Parade
10am – LIVE Music
11am – Horseshoe Tournament @ Paradise Cafe
12pm-2pm – LIVE Music
1:30-4pm – Sand Sculpture Contest. Judging at 4pm.
2pm-5pm – LIVE Music

SUNDAY, OCT. 30

9am-4pm Arts, Crafts, & Food Vendors

11am-1pm – LIVE Music

1pm-4pm – LIVE Music
2:30 – Kids Halloween Costume Contest Judging (12 & under)


Saturday, Oct. 29 Entertainment
10am - 12 noon Jaded Mayberry
12 noon - 2 pm Morris Cardenas & Friends
2pm - 5pm Capt Cook & The Coconuts

Sunday, Oct 30 Entertainment
10:30am - 1pm The Carolina Breakers
1pm - 4pm James Brown & Band

Fun for the entire family!!
Over 150 Arts & Craft Vendors
Children’s Rides & Amusements

Don’t Miss the Festival by the Sea!!

Fall 2011 Holden Beach NC

Exciting News ~ SHIPWRECK TRIATHLON IN HOLDEN BEACH

Frank & Karen Baker    Owners ® Sunset Beach NC Homes For Sale: Real Estate Agent in Sunset Beach, NC

"Did you know" about the SHIPWRECK TRIATHLON? The Sunset Beach Team bring you another event in the Holden Beach area.

It's a New & Exciting Event for Holden Beach called the SPRINTERNATIONAL.....

Race starts 11:00am

NOVEMBER 5th in HOLDEN BEACH

A new event that is not to be missed in beautiful Holden Beach, NC (just south of Wilmington and just north of Myrtle Beach, SC), this Sprinternational distance event will feature a 1000 meter Ocean Swim, a 30 kilometer flat and fast bike and a 8 kilometer flat and fast run.


With Holden Beach's storied history of pirates and shipwrecks come get your pirate on while racing in one of the most beautiful spots on the east coast.

This event is limited to 300 individuals!!

The Minimum Age is Ten Years Of Age.

Course Details

Register with SETUP ONLINE

Holden Beach real estate

Adam  Hankey  -       Internet Marketing, MLS IDX, Web Design : Real Estate Media in Myrtle Beach, SC

Holden Beach real estateThe North Carolina coast is full of adventure, romance, history, and lots more! Holden Beach, located as part of the Brunswick Islands, is the perfect location for a retirement home or investing in a vacation property and there’s lots of Holden Beach real estate here. The best news is properties are ready and waiting for you right now — whether you’re a retiree, looking for a second vacation home, or hoping to purchase an investment home while rates are still low. Come and visit us for a few days or come for a week — you'll be certain to fall in love with this piece of paradise.

Rated as one of the top 10 beach vacation spots for families, Brunswick County should be at the top of your list for Holden Beach real estate to look at. There’s something for everyone here! The Intracoastal Waterway abounds in family activities, Holden Beach is a great family beach waiting for discovery, and the area is chock full of parks, museums, shopping, and outdoor activities for every member of the family. Visit just once and you'll be drawn back again and again. There are many great opportunities to buy Holden Beach real estate in the area, so the entire family can retreat, regroup, and relax any time you choose.

Picture yourself retiring to this glorious area. The golf, the sun, the beaches, and the cities beckon to you daily. You'll never run out of activities to do so you can stay as busy as you’d like or just kick back and relax all day long. This area is fast becoming a favorite spot for baby boomers looking for the perfect retirement location. You'll be close to all the services you desire, but still have room to breathe in the oh-so-therapeutic salty ocean air. It doesn’t get any better! In addition, Brunswick County has the highest price appreciation on Holden Beach real estate  of anywhere in the Carolinas, so your investment today will reap even more rewards in the years to come.

Holden Beach Homes For Sale

Adam  Hankey  -       Internet Marketing, MLS IDX, Web Design : Real Estate Media in Myrtle Beach, SC

At Holden Beach, NC, you'll find one of the beautiful coastal towns that populate Brunswick County. Holden Beach, serenely set apart from the other crowded beaches, is centrally located along the coastline. As a resident of any one of the Holden Beach Homes For Sale you are able to escape a stressful life and kick back and relax as you enjoy the beautiful Atlantic Ocean in your backyard.

Now is a great time to buy real estate. Whether as investment property or as your primary residence there is still quite a few Holden Beach Homes For Sale and interest rates are low.

Located between Wilmington NC and Myrtle Beach, SC, Holden Beach is the northernmost of three islands known as the South Brunswick Islands. A quiet destination spot, it is mainly residential, though there are a couple of excellent restaurants there as well as grocery stores. The island itself has a fishing pier and the beaches provide access to all you can imagine.

In nearby Wilmington, NC, the 16th Annual Cape Fear Blues Festival is being held from July 29-31. The festival will include a unique blend of national, regional, and local performers, including Studebaker John and The Hawks, Rickey Godfrey and Band, E-Train and The Rusted Rails, Tampa Blue, Ten Dollar Thrill, Rick Tobey, The Treblemakers and Spider Mike Bochey.

Holden Beach Property

Adam  Hankey  -       Internet Marketing, MLS IDX, Web Design : Real Estate Media in Myrtle Beach, SC

Holden Beach PropertyAre you planning a retirement soon while watching the home prices in our current market and wishing you were a little closer to buying your dream home? Here's the solution to that. We have the perfect beach properties you've been waiting for. Whether you want an oceanfront single-family Holden Beach Property, a townhouse or condo with canal views, or a manufactured home set back from the water, we have it.

Holden Beach Property is still plentiful here. This is excellent news as you still have a good selection of properties — lots of houses, condos and building lots to choose from! Prices are dropping and interest rates are low! The time to buy is now!