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What's so great about the beach?
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Anonymous
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21:18 nailed my feelings about the beach. Add all the garbage like cigarette butts and gross things that you have to make sure your kids don't put in their mouths and I could live with never going to Delmarva or the Jersey shore again. Fortunately, my kids are like 21:23s and are good for about 2 hours each summer. Now, a Caribbean Island is an entirely different thing. Something about warm water and being able to do great snorkeling right off the beach changes the whole experience.
Even though we don't love the beach, we still go for a couple of days each year though because we love cycling and the kids love the boardwalk along with their two hours in the sand and waves. |
Anonymous
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It's not. We are doing SanDiego..much prettier beaches and a gazillion places to take kids.
Also-doing a beach in Maine..love that lobster! If we do any nearby beaches it is just a single weekend dhort trip |
Anonymous
Rehoboth and Dewey Beach are 2 of only 4 beaches in the US to get a 5 star rating, -- the best in the country for water quality and pollution control. Over 3000 US beaches were reviewed. "These beaches not only received the highest five-star rating based on water quality and best practices for testing and public notification but also had perfect testing results for the past three years indicating a history of superior water quality" http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/business/b...5-star-rating/122293 |
Anonymous
| The water may be clean, but there's a lot more that goes into a nice beach. We go to Rehoboth every summer and I can't stand it - you stake out your tiny patch of sand but there are 25 people within arms length of you in any direction, every time someone walks past they kick sand on you, and if your chair is not actually in the water, you're looking at the back of someone's else's chair rather than at the ocean. Also, the water at the NJ/DE beaches is too cold & doesn't really warm up until August. I grew up near the Jersey shore and I would take OBX any day. |
Anonymous
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DH hates the beach. Hates the sun, hates the sand, won't for the life of him even go in the water. I can do the beach for 2-3 days tops, and then I get bored. Our preferred vacation is Europe (and eventually other continents too), sightseeing-type stuff.
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Anonymous
| I am the daughter of a beach person and a non-beach person. Now that I'm a parent, I realize that our family did a beach vacation one year and a cultural/historical/new city type of vacation the next year throughout my entire childhood. OP, there are definitely non-beach people - my mother went to UCSB and her hair darkened about five shades between freshman year and graduation. She hated the beach. But she put up with it for a week every other summer because my dad loved it. And all their children became beach people. Do a weekend once in a while to get your kids used to it, otherwise they will be missing out of an amazing part of childhood. |
Anonymous
| My doing-nothing-at-the-beach enjoyment factor lasts about 2 days, tops. If we're somewhere where we can snorkel or sea kayak or do something else fun, I can take it for a few more days. But if it's really hot, like it can be at the Outer Banks in July, forget it. I don't want to be there. And all the sunscreen I need to avoid turning lobster-red only makes me hotter. And my daughter inherited my skin. |
Anonymous
| I'm not going to try to explain it. It's like sailing, you either "get it" or you don't. |
Anonymous
Not for me. It's constant supervision and eye on my kids (3 and 5.5) wanting to go into the water or run off...so stressful and hardly relaxing. Then, there's all the freaking sand that gets everywhere...and I mean everywhere!! The unchildproofed rental home. All the shit you have to bring with you for your week at the beach. I hate going to the beach on vacay!! |
Anonymous
| I don't like the beach at all. I don't like the sand and I don't like going into the ocean (although I do like watching it). I'm counting the years until we can take a more adventurous vacation. But my kids are little -- 4 and 1 -- and the beach is the only trip I can think of that allows us to give the baby a nap while the big kid can still get out and where we can have dinner at home while 1 or more kids go to bed early. And the kids love the beach. |
Anonymous
| If it doesn't have room service and maid service, we don't go there. Period. |
Anonymous
I agree-we do all that but in the winter-personally, I find the beach the most peaceful place on earth-love the smells, the sounds, watching my kids play. We moved to New England so now I also love all the seafood shacks, ice cream shops and the boys love to catch various little crabs-tidepooling I think is what the "natives" call it. Get out and enjoy! |
Anonymous
| it's because people here live nowhere near the beach, so it becomes a big deal. i grew up in calif, lived 2 blocks from beach for 2 yrs, lived 3 mi from beach for 11 yrs. no big deal to me. |
Anonymous
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I wouldn't enjoy a Delmarva beach - too crowded and commercial. What's so great about the beach for us?
1) I don't do my hair or wear makeup for a week. I don't turn on a computer. I don't talk on the phone. 2) What I do: spend oodles of time with my family, exercise every day, sleep 8 full hours, have a few cocktails. 3) The sea air and salt water actually relax me. The beach is my "happy place." |
Anonymous
| The cultural stuff is good when the kids are older..when they are young..it's all about you. Sorry but my kids could spend hours running around on the sand but have no interest in going to a museum. That is boring..you know what..most museums are boring. Need to remind myself to think more like a kid beause most of the "I love cultural stuff" people are usually no fun and full of themselves. |