Convenient shopping, four lane highways, excellent restaurants, parks, movie theatres, sports shops, fitness centers, specialty shops, night spots, the Atlantic Ocean, Fort Macon, the newly remodeled North Carolina Aquarium, Beaufort Maritime Museum, Beaufort Historical Site and Waterfront, Shackelford Banks and the wild p onies, Beaufort Inlet (continuously open since 1585), Core Sound Waterfoul Museum, Cape Lookout National Sea Shore and Lighthouse, home of the Big Rock Blue Marlin Fishing Tournament, the Barta Boys & Girls Club Billfish Tournament, The Atlantic Beach King Mackeerel Tournament, the Calcutta Baits Wahoo Challenge plus many sporting activities including charter fishing, hang gliding, biking, golf, surfing, wind surfing and so much more!