Gift Certificates – A Great Gift Idea

Consider giving a gift certificate for a stay at The Winds to someone you care about: a graduating student, newlyweds, someone special who cared for your children or pets or met a special need in your life.

Siblings sometimes “pitch in” for one to their parents, employees for their employees, Sunday school classes and churches for their pastors. Our certificates can be customized with your special message, and the recipient has a year to use it. If you have any specific questions then please call us.

As graduation and Spring and Summer weddings quickly approach keep this fun, easy gift idea in mind.

To order, call us at 1.800.334.3581 or request one in an email to us. We mail certificates within 24 hours of your order.

The Winds Highlighted On Clark Howard

The Winds has been selected as a great value by TV and radio personality Clark Howard! Read more

Download Free Discount Coupons!!

The Winds is offering free discount coupons good for 20% off the already low off season rates! Click here to download these valuable coupons that you can print right off of your computer.

History Buff Heaven

There are few places in America that can offer the variety of historical sites that are virtually on The Winds doorstep.

For instance the European history of this area goes back to 1524, only two years after Cortez conquered Mexico! In that year Geovanni da Varrazano made a landing just north of the Cape Fear River.

In 1526 Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon arrived at Cape Fear with around 600 settlers. The exact site of the colony, which only lasted a few months, has yet to be found. Read more

Video Of “Gator” On Beach At The Winds

This video was taken on July 15th, 2009 and shows the “gator” we found on the beach right in front of The Winds Resort Beach Club! Read more

The Winds Drops Minimum Stay Requirements!

Trends in the vacation industry have changed and now people are taking more frequent, shorter vacations these days.

In response The Winds has dropped it’s long standing policy of requiring a seven night minimum stay for most lodging types during high occupancy periods.

This will allow guests to pick and choose the dates that work the best for them. There will continue to be great pricing incentives for those who book a stay of seven night or more but this added flexability should be helpful to many of our guests.

Our online booking has been adjusted to take these new polocies into account. Most units will have no minimum stay requirement!

We hope this helps our guests to have a better experience on ther vacations!

Video of Firefighting Plane

We found this very cool video on YouTube of a Canadair CL-215 Firefighting Plane  at Ocean Isle Beach scooping up some salt water Read more

Free Summer Movies!

This summer you can enjoy some of the most popular family movies for free! Read more

White Ibis Island Sanctuary

Battery Island, located just off of nearby Southport, NC in the Cape Fear River, is home to the largest White Ibis nesting population in southeastern North Carolina. For many years, this 100-acre Audubon Sanctuary has been the site of North Carolina’s largest gathering of breeding wading birds. Herons, egrets, and ibises flock to the island by the thousands each spring. Since 1982, the island has been guarded and protected by the National Audubon Society.

Each year, between 9,000 and 15,000 breeding pairs of white ibises, nearly all that nest in the state, as well as hundreds of breeding pairs of herons and egrets, descend on the Sanctuary to nest and raise their young. The island has always been vital to North Carolina’s wading bird population and, recently, was designated as “globally important” for the great numbers of white ibises that nest on the island every year. (Approximately 12% of the global white ibis population nests at Battery Island.)

In 1996 the Cape Fear Garden Club of Wilmington, NC stepped forward to officially adopt the sanctuary and assist with the protection and management of the island. Since that time, the Cape Fear Garden Club has donated more than $20,000 in support of this Audubon Sanctuary.

Battery Island is posted and patrolled throughout the year, and is off-limits to visitors. Protecting the island, the nesting birds and their habitats is essential to conserving wading birds in North Carolina. The Cape Fear Garden Club offers a guided boat tour of the sanctuary every spring, check their website for more details.

Ship Wreck Video!

In 1942 the Hebe, a Dutch merchant vessel collided with the British sub chaser St. Cathan Read more

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