Mother’s Day  Weekend Package

Valid Dates: 05/10/2012 – 05/14/2012   Arrival Days: Sun,Thu,Fri,Sat   Length of Stay: 2 nights min. / 4 nights max.

Mother holds a special place in our heart. Through thick and thin, she is the only one who you can be assured of being on your side. She is like your shadow, which will never leave you alone. This mother’s day, it’s your chance to let your mother know how special she is. Plan something different! How about an exciting weekend getaway? This mother’s day, gift your mother a weekend of rest, relaxation, and rejuvenation. It’s time for her to take a break.

Package Includes:

• 2 night’s in your choice of oceanfront or island view accommodations.
• Flower Bouquet and Chocolates in your room upon arrival.
• 1 hour massage for Mom at Right Touch Therapy (Ocean Isle Beach), choice includes Swedish, Deep Tissue, and Hot Stone.
• Hot Southern Breakfast Buffet each day.
• Complimentary bikes to explore the island.
• Discounts to area restaurants and shops.

Package is subject to advance reservations and availability. Please call 1.800.334.3581 to schedule your massage at least 3 days before your arrival.

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Get into the St. Patrick’s Day Spirit on March 10th, 2012! Wear Green and show your Leprechaun Spirit! The course is flat, fast and beautiful as it parallels the ocean along the east side of the island.

The Winds is offering all race participants a 25% discount on all accommodations for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We are also throwing a Post-Race Party for participants staying at The Winds. Ask for details when you reserve your room. Please go to http://its-go-time.com/lucky-leprechaun-run-march-10 to register for the race.

St. Patty’s Day Weekend Package

You don’t need the luck of the Irish to get a great deal at the Winds this St. Patty’s Day weekend!

Valid Dates: 03/16/2012 – 03/19/2012   Arrival Days: Fri,Sat   Length of Stay: 2 nights min. / 2 nights max.

Let The Winds get you into the Irish Spirit with an authentic Irish dinner at Roberto’s Italian Ristorante, a split of champagne with party favors for each person, and our complimentary southern hot breakfast buffet each morning. This is an amazing deal, just $311.00 for 2 for a two night stay, so you can leave your pot of gold at home!

Please call 1.800.334.3581 3 days before your arrival to schedule your dinner reservations.

They cannot tell a lie: George Washington and ol’ Honest Abe want you to take a relaxing beach vacation this president’s day weekend! Stay 3 days at The Winds Resort this President’s Day Weekend and get 25% off your whole stay! It’s un-American not to love these prices! Come Friday, Saturday and Sunday and receive our special President’s Day rates!

Stay 3 days at The Winds Resort this President’s Day Weekend and get 25% off your whole stay!

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Island Kayak Adventure Package

Kayaking the serene salt marshes of the Intracoastal Waterway is truly an unforgettable experience. Let us introduce you to a whole new rarely seen world of undisturbed wetlands and native wildlife. This pristine marsh is with out a doubt one of North Carolina’s priceless hidden gems.

Rates: 
From $206.00 per person 3/9/12 – 6/8/12
From $265.00 per person 6/9/12 – 8/10/12
From $235.00 per person 8/11/12 – 9/3/12
From $206.00 per person 9/4/12 – 9/30/12
From $167.00 per person 10/1/12 – 10/31/12

Arrival Days: Any day of week.
Length of Stay: 2 night’s min. / 14 night’s max.

This Package Includes:

• Two night’s accommodations in an oceanfront Jasmine Guest Room, Wisteria Mini Suite, Azalea Petite Suite, Hibiscus Single Suite, or an Island View Camellia Guest Room
• Welcome basket for each room
• Three hour kayak tour of the Intracoastal Waterway
• Dinner for two at your choice of: Sharky’s Waterfront Restaurant or Roberto’s Ristorante
• Complimentary bikes to explore the island
• Hot Southern Breakfast Buffet for two each morning
• Free Aqua Zumba and Water Aerobic classes
• Discounts to area restaurants and shops

Package is based on double occupancy and is subject to advance reservations and availability. Please call 1.800.334.3581 to schedule your kayak tour and dinner reservations at least 3 days before your arrival
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What a better way to show how you feel than a romantic weekend at the beach.

Package rates start at $242.00 and are valid from February 10th (Friday) to February 15th (Wednesday).

Our Romantic Valentine’s Weekend Package includes:

• Two night’s accommodation for two in an oceanfront Jasmine Guest Room, Wisteria Mini Suite, Azalea Petite Suite, or an Island View Camellia Guest Room decorated with Rose Petals
• A bottle of Champagne and a box of Chocolate Truffles
• Valentine’s Day dinner for two at your choice of:
  Sharky’s Waterfront Restaurant or 125 Oyster Bar and Grill
• Hot Southern Breakfast Buffet for two each morning

Make it extra special!  When booking, you will also have the option to add on:

• A dozen roses delivered to your room for $75.00.
• Enjoy a one hour massage in the privacy of your suite or in our Palmetto Room for $125.00 per person.
• Play a round of golf on one of the area’s finest courses for just $35.00 per round.

To book your Valentine’s Weekend Package at The Winds call our Reservations Desk at 800.334.3581 or click here to email us.

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The Winds is a small, intimate island resort ideal for vacations, romantic getaways, weddings, honeymoons, reunions, golf packages and excursions or small meetings, The Winds Resort Beach Club, on Ocean Isle Beach, NC, is more than just a beach resort hotel.

The Winds’ complex is a lush tropical paradise offering a variety of Ocean Isle beach rentals and vacation homes all with access to a host of free amenities including three pools (one indoor), bikes to explore the island and much more.

Oceanfront hotel rooms and 1, 2 and 3 bedroom suites (with kitchens) overlook palms, banana trees, hibiscus flowers and our breathtaking island beach. The Winds also offers 4, 5 and 6 bedroom Resort Cottages.

Free Hot Southern Breakfast Buffet each morning:
No one offers a free breakfast spread like The Winds Resort Beach Club! All guests can enjoy this buffet free with their stay.

With everything from eggs, breakfast meats, grits, potatoes, waffles, bagels and english muffins to fruit and hot and cold cereals.

This is just a partial list. We promise that you will not be walking away hungry.

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You’ll find premier properties for rent on and near Sunset Beach, Ocean Isle Beach and Holden Beach. Golf course fairway condominiums as well!

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These sites as well as traffic from Google, Bing and other search engines bring lots of traffic from visitors planning vacations right here on the islands of Brunswick County, NC!

In addition BeachRentalsDirect.com advertises on billboards on high traffic highways on throughout the area.

There are other “Rent By Owner” websites out there but they are not targeted on this area and visitors focused on coming here!

For centuries, even before lighthouses, mariners navigated into the Cape Fear River looking for the “bald head.” They used the landmark to find the river channel.

According to Bald Head Island’s historic tour director, Susan Grantier, said the bald head has less to do with the anatomical feature and more to do with sand.

“The head of an island is your highest point – Hilton Head, Diamond Head – and in this case it was a significant sand dune right at the mouth of the river,” said Grantier.

Just as necessary then, as it is now, a marker was essential at the mouth of the cape fear to keep ocean vessels from being marooned on the shoals below.

Today, sailors use GPS and the Oak Island Light House, but in 1794 the Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and the Second U.S.Congress commissioned $4,000 for the construction of a lighthouse atop the bald head dune.

The placement proved to be a mistake, as the dune eroded quickly, and the lighthouse was torn down.

Even though the bald head dune eroded away, the name stuck.

Many of the bricks from the first Bald Head Lighthouse were re-used later for another lighthouse that kept sailors out of the dark for more than 100 years.

The lighthouse was deactivated in 1935, but still offers visitors a panoramic view of the mouth of the Cape Fear and the surrounding homes and golf course that were built in the early 1980′s.

While the area may be more modern than it was, the Village of Bald Head is one of the only places in the United states where gas powered cars aren’t allowed – only bikes, golf carts, and of course boats.

The lights are 169 feet above the water. The structure is 148 feet tall, but it stands on a slight hill.

There is no spiral staircase as are found in most older lighthouses, but instead there is a series of ships ladders with a total of 131 steps to the lantern gallery level.

The base is set upon 24 concrete-filled steel pilings 10 3/4 inches in diameter and 67 feet deep. The pilings are capped by a 30 foot wide by 3 foot deep octagonal concrete base upon which the tower structure was built.

The main tower is 128 feet tall, built of monolithic reinforced concrete. It was poured continuously into a movable form that was raised by jacks at the rate of one foot per hour.

To accomplish this task a concrete mixing plant was set up on the site to allow for the continuous 24 hour a day operation for days.

The tower has a uniform inside diameter of 16 feet 4 3/4 inches. The wall is 8 inches thick, and the three stripe color pattern is permanently cast into the concrete.

To establish a color for each section the first forty feet is the natural gray of Portland cement. The next fifty feet was poured with white Portland cement and white quartz aggregate for the white color. The top fifty two feet is gray Portland cement with black coloring.

The smaller diameter concrete section at the top was formed with stationary metal forms after the top floor was poured. Windows in the tower were constructed of stainless steel but sashes have been replace with vinyl.

The 11 foot tall aluminum lantern housing was installed by Marine Corps helicopters. Total height of the structure above the foundation slab is 153 feet.

The characteristic flashing pattern for the light is four one-second flashes every 10 seconds.

The lighting apparatus in the Oak Island Lighthouse is made up of 8 aero beacon lighting fixtures, 4 on top and 4 on the bottom.

When first activated in 1958, the lower bank used carbon-arc mercury lamps in 36-inch reflectors. These reflectors with their housings were adapted from aircraft spotlights used in World War II.

When these lamps were in use the Oak Island light was the second brightest in the world. When the upper bank of lights, comprising of 24 inch theatrical lights and 1,000 watt Quartz lamps became the primary beacon and the bottom were decommissioned, it lost that distinction!

Today the brightest light along this part of the Atlantic coast is the Sullivan’s Island Light near Charleston, South Carolina which was erected in 1962.

Free tours are given on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10 AM till 2 PM starting on the Wednesday before Memorial Day until the Wednesday After Labor Day. Tours are to the 2nd level ONLY.

· Weekly seasonal tours are only to the 2nd level of the tower, NOT to the observation balcony at the top!

· Children MUST be 7 years or older to enter the lighthouse due to government safety regulations.

· No more than 15 visitors will be allowed inside the tower at any time.

· Visitors are requested not to wear flip-flops, high heels, open-toed or hard leather heels/soles. Sneakers are the preferred shoes.

· Climbers are required to have both hands free for climbing due to the steepness of our steps. No exceptions will be made!

· Weather permitting (visitors are not allowed in the lighthouse if there is lightning in the area)

· There are no Restroom facilities on site

· All tours are free of charge