This is a beautiful home, completely comfortable, with lovely furnishings throughout, and every amenity to make your stay easy. Everything was in like new condition inside and out. Fantastic view of the beach from balcony and deck. The beach was great with a life guard tower right next door. There are a couple steep dips into the oceans between sand bars and an interesting historical feature: the ruins of a bromine processing facility (some large concrete forms holding a very large pipe and some pilings.) The pros of the ruins is having an easy landmark on the beach while swimming and walking, the cons being it creates a rip tide, but this was no issue for us, we stayed away while swimming.) We saw dolphins several days, bodyboarded, swam and fished from shore. Tons to do (Fort Fisher, NC Aquarium, Wilmington, the Boardwalk) besides the beach within a short distance, but there is also a relaxing, slow pace.