Comments on: Biking Carolina Beach

By: editor

editor — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:16:04 +0000

Here's an update on the bike/walk path plans for Pleasure Island, from Carolina Beach Today: Island Greenway Update

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:38:30 +0000

Chris – GP Meetup! That sounds fun. How about that bar where you grab your drinks out of the walk-in yourself (Pelican something?)

CBToday – Love the Grind. More and more. I think you’re right they’ll be the spot before long. They’re definitely onto something there.

By: Ranald

Ranald — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:07:37 +0000

Three other hidden gems in Carolina Beach:

1. The library at the corner of Cape Fear and 3rd — a pint size version of other New Hanover County libraries. Unfortunately, the best librarian, Kip, was just tranferred to Myrtle Grove after 12 years in CB.

2. Blackburn Bothers Seafood (written about several times in these pages before)

3. Max’s Barber Shop at 915B Bennet Lane. Don’t let the name fool you. Max is a woman and offers a no-frills, old fashioned haircut experience for mostly men. Her ample space is nearly barren, but her accoutrement is all barber shop throw-backs. A regular cut is $15, a shave $5. Both are good enough to ignore the slightly cheaper chains.

By: Ranald

Ranald — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:34:32 +0000

Sorry you picked another loser restaurant in CB, Ian. El Zarape is fast fuel, a tiny step above Taco Smell. As someone who works in CB, I can vouch for Jack Mackeral’s, Freddie’s, A&G, Frank’s Pizza, and in the warmer months, Trolley Stop. The Black Horn at the boardwalk isn’t bad either. Try the pork “wings”. And by the way, The Cottage is long gone, and not lamented, at least not by me.

I’m all for the Island Greenway Initiative, if for no other reason than it may make Wilmington look twice at its pathetic biker-unfriendly posture.

I’ve heard of Not In My Back Yard for, say, a cement plant. But a bike path? C’mon.

By: CBToday

CBToday — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:46:01 +0000

I really enjoyed your post and appreciate you bringing attention to the Island Greenway initiative. The trail system is gaining community support and recently the Carolina Beach Town Council gave a green light for the project to move forward. Unfortunately, a few naysayers have the ear of the Kure Beach Council. But their concerns are being addressed and I imagine that they too will be on board as the public support continues to build around this project.

The Grind is a pretty cool place, huh? In the next couple of months they are going to being serving food (more of the tapas style) and I suspect they will really become one of the Carolina Beach hot spots. Good wine with good food equals a very good night for me

By: Chris Laursen

Chris Laursen — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:04:56 +0000

Carolina Beach is cool. I was down there a couple of weeks ago, and it seems to have the feel that it had in the late eighties and early nineties (when I first moved here).

I think its because the ridiculous “developers” driving around in their Hummers, knocking down beach cottages and putting up plastic McMansions with granite everywhere are gone. (of course, these “developers” are crying that the taxpayers need to bail them out, because they spent all of their money on Hummers)

Now the regular folks are back in the restaurants, on the bike trails, enjoying the area because its a nice place to LIVE!!!

Maybe we should have a “Grove Project” get together at a local joint sometime, drink a beer or two.