North Carolina Travel Blog

Wilmington and North Carolina’s Cape Fear Coast are famous for their holiday flotilla’s — lighted boat parades that capture the region’s nautical essence. There’s the Holiday Flotilla at Wrightsville Beach and the Island of Lights Holiday Flotilla in Carolina Beach. What’s more, you can enjoy everyone’s annual favorite, Enchanted Airlie in Wilmington.

This is the stuff great holiday memories are made of. These spectacular nighttime holiday flotillas are very popular, with thousands of cheering visitors enjoying the spectacle of sailing vessels of all shapes and sizes from rowboats to yachts. Here’s what is in the offing this year:

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NC travel HOT TIP! Here’s a great offbeat event “down east” in Wilmington, North Carolina. Head to downtown Wilmington for ChowdaFest — Saturday, November 8, in Historic Downtown, 12:00 Noon. It’s a local, colorful celebration of all things chowder. As they say, How’dya Like Ya Chowda? Hot clam chowder on a cool fall afternoon sounds like the ingredients for a popular festival in these parts. As a matter of fact, the Sixth Annual ChowdaFest serves up three kinds of clam chowder on the patio behind Fat Tony’s Italian Pub at 131 N. Front Street in downtown Wilmington.

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