Quiet beach getaway spot within 2-3 hrs drive?

[Anonymous]

Where would you go this fall for a weekend of peaceful sandy beach-walking and shell collecting, nice safe area?

[Anonymous]

Cape charles. Just meets your criteria if you leave early in the morning.

[Anonymous]

Cape Henlopen SP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cape Henlopen SP.

Both places look beautiful -- where do you stay? I am hoping for a beachfront rental, versus camping or hotel.

[Anonymous]

Lewes or Broadkill Beach for Cape Henlopen
For nature beaching I'd go to Assateague but stay inland (Berlin, West OC, Chincoteague)
Shelling in this area is not too great, a few grey conch and lots of clams and oysters, a few dead horseshoe crabs.
Cape Charles is a BAY beach, but the water is clean and the sand is white, quaint town, great place to golf and take kayak tour or go sailing or fishing, good rental rates, check out The Shanty and Aqua.
For an intensely deserted island weekend, go to Wachapreague, stay at the Wachapreague Inn or nearby, and rent a skiff or have the folks at Daytrippers tour company take you to the sand bar just south of Cedar Island, Va.

[Anonymous]

We stay here http://www.stayvacationrentals.com/cape-charles-vacation-rentals/l11281 in cape charles. Love it.

[Anonymous]

Lewes and Cape Henlopen are fantastic. The one downside that I experienced this summer with a > 1 week stay there is that the dead horseshoe crabs on the beach wear on you after a while. They are big, and they are not exactly pleasant to encounter day after day on the beach. Live horseshoe crabs? I have no problem with them.

[Anonymous]

Which are the unsafe beaches?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lewes and Cape Henlopen are fantastic. The one downside that I experienced this summer with a > 1 week stay there is that the dead horseshoe crabs on the beach wear on you after a while. They are big, and they are not exactly pleasant to encounter day after day on the beach. Live horseshoe crabs? I have no problem with them.

I haven't been to this beach, but my experience is that the horseshoe crab shells you see on the beach in the summer are molts (the crabs shed their old shells annually in order to grow a larger one). They are empty shells, not rotting crabs. Molting tends to peak during the summer, usually for a couple of weeks, then declines in number, so they should not be too much a problem in the fall.

[Anonymous]

In the Fall, most places will be pretty quiet. Sea Colony in Bethany is on the water and easy, but it's not remote.