Danny Hemrick, who works for the Carolina Beach Sanitation Department, waters one of the palm trees recently planted along Park Blvd. at Carolina Beach. The town waters 66 palm trees daily which takes about 2,000 gallons of water and is pumped by a...
North Carolina, New Hanover County, Rowan County, boats, waterways, Intracoastal, marshes, beaches
Hoover Lingle, left, and his wife Carolyn ply the shallow waters of a marshy area near Carolina Beach Inlet in their 400 horse power air boat, which they use for fishing. The couple lives in Salisbury and own a cottage at Carolina Beach.
The Calabash waterfront where a dozen shrimp boats dock after dragging the strand. The shrimpers travel down the Calabash river, emerging into the ocean in South Carolina waters. The shrimp are sold to tourists who walk up to the docks.
This undivided back postcard features an illustration which depicts a man fishing in a rowboat while a sailboat drifts in the waters off Wrightsville Beach.
This divided back postcard features an illustration which depicts people boating and fishing in the waters off the Hotel Tarrymore on Wrightsville Beach.
Cape Fear River, North Carolina State Port, Coast Guard, Prosecutor, Tanker, Tofton
This color photograph captures a Coast Guard Prosecutor patrolling the waters of the Cape Fear River by the North Carolina State Port. In the background in the tanker "Tofton."
Image shows crowded water slide and pier on the sound side of Lumina at Wrightsville Beach, N.C. The water slide was erected by the owners of Lumina. The relative still waters of the sound made it easier to swim there rather than in the surf of...
Three men hoist a large stingray, pronounced locally sting-a-ree, culled from Wrightsville Sound around 1925. The stingrays are a family—Dasyatidae—of rays, cartilaginous fishes related to sharks. They are common in coastal tropical and...
John Fisher, a retired Atlantic Coast Line cook, waters the lawn on the northeast corner of Second and Chestnut streets. The Cape Fear Club is in the background.