Am I the only one who hates the beach?

[Anonymous]

My brother and family recently purchased a gorgeous beach house. He laughingly says that the actual beach is boring to him. Instead, he does local-centric types of activities solo or with his kids. His DW loves the beach and swimming and being outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, you are the only one…except there are at least four of these threads each and every summer.

But…but OP is so SPECIAL. She’s so above those plebeians who like the beach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s awful.
I can’t be the only one.

Just curious-- do you have a cat OP?

[Anonymous]

I have to be in completely the right mood with the right people, otherwise it can be soul crushingly boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My brother and family recently purchased a gorgeous beach house. He laughingly says that the actual beach is boring to him. Instead, he does local-centric types of activities solo or with his kids. His DW loves the beach and swimming and being outside.

I am in a very similar situation. I find things to do in the historic area near where I live. I also fish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the Caribbean but hate the Atlantic beaches. Snokeling is interesting. Cold, rough water where you can't see a thing is not fun. I also have zero interest in paying a mortgage payment for a week at the beach when I could go to Caribbean for the same.

The Caribbean is in the Atlantic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For all of you who get bored at the beach, why aren’t the mountains boring to you? I am the opposite. The beach is so easy to me and the mountains so buggy, slippery, dirty, poison ivy ridden and cloudy/cool. To each their own, I suppose.

If you're at a lake in the mountains, there are so many options -- swimming, kayaking, canoeing, sailing, biking, hiking . . . totally the opposite of boring. As for "buggy, slippery, dirty, poison ivy-ridden", well, up north and out west, it's not so buggy; with good trail shoes or hiking boots, you won't slip; and it's pretty easy to recognize and avoid poison ivy. OTOH, at the beach, you're sweaty and have sand in your bathing suit and are swatting away those nasty little sand flies or whatever the heck they are. Finally, cool weather is awesome to me -- I loathe feeling sweaty -- just ugh. But, yeah, in the end, I agree with you -- different strokes.

We have literally done everyone of those things at the beach this summer and have not encountered any bugs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For all of you who get bored at the beach, why aren’t the mountains boring to you? I am the opposite. The beach is so easy to me and the mountains so buggy, slippery, dirty, poison ivy ridden and cloudy/cool. To each their own, I suppose.

I think a lot of it is nostalgia. I grew up in Colorado(very few bugs, not slippery, cool is an asset) and spent my childhood vacations in the mountains, my partner grew up here going to the beach. I go down to the beach once for my family but really can’t handle humidity and heat.

[Anonymous]

I don’t like the beach itself so much for the reasons others have mentioned—hot, sticky, sandy, plus randos playing bad music and talking too loud. However, watching the ocean is just about my favorite thing, and I love beach towns, beach food, and watching families having fun swimming, playing beach sports, and flying kites. I particularly love staying at Sea Colony and watching the ocean and beach-goers from my nice, quiet condo.