Are you or are you not a "beach person"?
Jun 17th, 2006, 09:11 AM
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A serious lifer. As a kid, I got excited just at the thought of sand and waves and fried clams and french fries (yup, a New Englander). Later on, I loved the mix of body-surfing and playing in the waves with friends together with laying in the sun, reading, and getting nicely (carcinogenically, I'm afraid) toasted to wear the summer pastels. After that, from mid-20s on, it was more a matter of rumination about waves and water and weather and grabbing some solitude between life passages.
Now I'm not on the beach in midday (too hot, too much damaging sun) and less in the summer than in other seasons. I love fall, winter, and spring on a beach, with few people and lots of animals and weather.
I'm sure to my dying day, I will be restored to cosmic peace simply by breating in the salt air.
Now I'm not on the beach in midday (too hot, too much damaging sun) and less in the summer than in other seasons. I love fall, winter, and spring on a beach, with few people and lots of animals and weather.
I'm sure to my dying day, I will be restored to cosmic peace simply by breating in the salt air.
Jun 17th, 2006, 09:16 AM
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Beach girl here ( but city girl now ) 
Lived in Hawaii & Caifornia and always on the beach, in NY we had summer houses at the beach every year, there is nothing like falling to sleep with the windows open and listening to the sound of surf pounding. There is nothing like that feeling of coming back to the house after a day on the beach ..the way you feel, your appetite , lol, your relaxed frame of mind..how well you sleep ~
But eventually, all that beach catches up with you, especially if you are fairskinned..the word Dermatologist came into my life
Now I like the beach but more off hours, seasons, when I am not going to fry to a crisp ( something I did too many times in the past)
but, I am also a mountains and woods person
Lived in Hawaii & Caifornia and always on the beach, in NY we had summer houses at the beach every year, there is nothing like falling to sleep with the windows open and listening to the sound of surf pounding. There is nothing like that feeling of coming back to the house after a day on the beach ..the way you feel, your appetite , lol, your relaxed frame of mind..how well you sleep ~
But eventually, all that beach catches up with you, especially if you are fairskinned..the word Dermatologist came into my life
Now I like the beach but more off hours, seasons, when I am not going to fry to a crisp ( something I did too many times in the past)
but, I am also a mountains and woods person
Jun 17th, 2006, 09:58 AM
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I love having a house on the beach. I love walking for an hour in the morning before other people turn up.(I'll even wade out into the water up to my waist - rip tides make more than that dangerous for everyone.) I love walking in the evening after dinner.
But to sit on the beach and do nothing - I would die of boredom in 15 minutes - never mind that I would have to be slathereed in SPF 150.
So being at the beach great. Spending a day on the beach - no way! (And I would never do a beach vacation - except for our rental house long weekends.)
But to sit on the beach and do nothing - I would die of boredom in 15 minutes - never mind that I would have to be slathereed in SPF 150.
So being at the beach great. Spending a day on the beach - no way! (And I would never do a beach vacation - except for our rental house long weekends.)
Jun 17th, 2006, 10:43 AM
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Good lordy am I ever a beach girl! I'd better be because the Atlantic ocean is my back yard!
The smell of the ocean and salt air and marsh mud are like coming home to me. I grew up surfing, swimming, and playing on the beach.
The smell of Coppertone can still take me back to my childhood no matter where I am.
I think in a former life I was a sea bird. Possibly a Pelican, Egret, or Great Blue Heron.
The smell of the ocean and salt air and marsh mud are like coming home to me. I grew up surfing, swimming, and playing on the beach.
The smell of Coppertone can still take me back to my childhood no matter where I am.
I think in a former life I was a sea bird. Possibly a Pelican, Egret, or Great Blue Heron.
Jun 17th, 2006, 10:57 AM
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I love being on the beach, watching the water, the salt air, everything about it.......except, I HATE being hot. I HATE sweat. My eyes can't take bright sunlight or glare. Swimming with heavy shades can't be done. So I gave up on going to the beach except in small doses at the wrong time of year.
Count me as another that doesn't understand wanting to go on a beach vacation and trying to find a place with the best pool. I suppose it makes sense if you plan on dumping the kids for a life guard to watch while you relax.
Count me as another that doesn't understand wanting to go on a beach vacation and trying to find a place with the best pool. I suppose it makes sense if you plan on dumping the kids for a life guard to watch while you relax.
Jun 17th, 2006, 11:04 AM
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a definite YES! I LOVE the beach. I love laying in the warm sand, the sound of the waves crashing, the smell of salt air, the smell of sunscreen, swimming in the ocean although as I age it seems to get colder and colder 
, sailing, kayaking, snorkeling, body surfing, etc. It's all good. I enjoy the ocean in the winter as well, although I am a warm weather person. I would much rather be warm than cold. My ideal vacation is lying on the beach in some tropical location with my honey by my side.
, sailing, kayaking, snorkeling, body surfing, etc. It's all good. I enjoy the ocean in the winter as well, although I am a warm weather person. I would much rather be warm than cold. My ideal vacation is lying on the beach in some tropical location with my honey by my side.
Jun 17th, 2006, 11:37 AM
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Yes... beach person here but I'm fair and not into too much sun or humidity.
I couldn't live somewhere that was more than a couple of hours drive time from the Ocean and believe me I'd love that sea view everyday!
Paradise would be a deserted beach with just shells for company, a cool breeze with trees for shade and turquoise water.
I couldn't live somewhere that was more than a couple of hours drive time from the Ocean and believe me I'd love that sea view everyday!
Paradise would be a deserted beach with just shells for company, a cool breeze with trees for shade and turquoise water.
Jun 17th, 2006, 11:46 AM
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Too many people @ beaches along with people who smoke thinking the beach sand is their own private ashtray and the sand is filled with filthy cigarette butts. I'd rather go on a daytrip to the mountains, most people are too lazy to go out into the woods and throw garbage in it.
Jun 17th, 2006, 11:58 AM
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Since i burn within .2 seconds outside, I'm not big on beach vacations....I do like going to the beach, but it takes at least a half hour of covering my entire body in SPF 50 and the whole thing is just a big production. Family history of skin cancer and I'm VERY fair. I do enjoy the beach at night though, and in the late afternoon when it's not so hot and sunny. Plus I get bored easily and just sitting there baking in the sun isn't my idea of a good time.
Jun 17th, 2006, 12:15 PM
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Elbow to-elbow with hot smelly people with no breeze, tobacco smoke around, and lots of loud music on a hot, cloudless day -- NOPE.
With nobody else as far as the eye can see, on a cool windy day and no sounds except waves and gulls -- FOREVER.
With nobody else as far as the eye can see, on a cool windy day and no sounds except waves and gulls -- FOREVER.
Jun 17th, 2006, 12:39 PM
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I was a "late bloomer" when it came to learning how to swim as a kid. But take me to the beach and I had no fear - I would get knocked around by waves with abandonment and not be afraid (I think I was watched with a careful adult eye, but who knows, lol). I'm much more careful (fearful or riptides) today, however.
We always found beach vacations to be the best alternative when our children were young. Pack up the car and head to the beach for a week in a rented condo was ideal. What I found out, as time went by, was that one of our kids really didn't enjoy the beach. Still doesn't. Although if you bring water sports into the mix, it makes it more appealing.
But the DH and I need to get to the beach at least once a year for a vacation -- day trips, with Long Island traffic, are less appealing. I love long, long walks on the beach. It just brings me back to my childhood.
As a teen I used to bake myself. I regret those days. I am much more careful and always wear sunscreen, a hat, a tee, and bring the umbrella along and actually sit under it, lol. But I wear sunscreen no matter where we take our vacation - city, beach or country! I always carry it along in my purse (I love the little clip on bottles they have now).
Soccr, the beach without a seabreeze can be a beast!
We always found beach vacations to be the best alternative when our children were young. Pack up the car and head to the beach for a week in a rented condo was ideal. What I found out, as time went by, was that one of our kids really didn't enjoy the beach. Still doesn't. Although if you bring water sports into the mix, it makes it more appealing.
But the DH and I need to get to the beach at least once a year for a vacation -- day trips, with Long Island traffic, are less appealing. I love long, long walks on the beach. It just brings me back to my childhood.
As a teen I used to bake myself. I regret those days. I am much more careful and always wear sunscreen, a hat, a tee, and bring the umbrella along and actually sit under it, lol. But I wear sunscreen no matter where we take our vacation - city, beach or country! I always carry it along in my purse (I love the little clip on bottles they have now).
Soccr, the beach without a seabreeze can be a beast!
Jun 17th, 2006, 02:15 PM
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I dream of the beach every single day. This is the first year we didn't go to Florida during spring break and it just about killed me.
We are spending a week on Cape Cod and that's six weeks away. It feels like six months.
I LOVE THE BEACH!!!!!!!!!!
We are spending a week on Cape Cod and that's six weeks away. It feels like six months.
I LOVE THE BEACH!!!!!!!!!!
Jun 17th, 2006, 02:26 PM
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Absolutely a beach person. My husband is trying to become one with minimal success...On a recent trip to Puerto Vallarta, he hung out on the beach with me for an hour or so and said, "I'm hot and sticky, and covered with sand, can I go in now?" It was a big family trip, and I was frustrated with people not being out...He helped me realize that I don't respect people who don't love the beach. It was hard to face, but true...I'm working on it!
Jun 17th, 2006, 02:32 PM
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A beach anecdote fellow beach lovers might like...My dad died several years ago a day before Halloween. About the same time the following year, my sister had a very vivid dream about him (one of those where it feels like the person is letting you know he's o.k.). He was on a beach, with cabanas, palm trees, etc., and went to a pay phone to call her. (He was never a huge beach lover.) A day or two later, I was buying Halloween cards and picked one up of two ghosts, sitting under a cabana by the beach...of course with the caption, "Life's a beach!" I think these events, taken together, prove that Heaven is, in fact, a beach.
