what is your favorite beach activity when there?
Since it is topic amnesty time I thought I'd ask this one. The only criteria is that you had to have actually visited it, and done the activity.
Is it one you went to for family vacations?
One you went to for a college Spring break? Honeymoon? Extra-curricular activities?
One national or international?
For myself, it would be a couple of deserted beaches along the North Carolina coast. I like to put on my iPod headphones and walk for miles/hours as I alternate between music and some podcasted talk radio I download. When I get back to my blanket/umbrella, I'll plunk down and just take in the surf/sand/sunset until it is time to leave. A real spirit rejuvenator.
Shake it up Baby!
Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman. Been there several times and love it every time!
From the time I got my drivers license at 16, I would drive up PCH late at night to Zuma Beach, some 35 miles each way, much of it on Pacific Coast Highway. All the surfers and sun worshippers and partiers will have already left for the day, and I was often the only soul on the beach. The sound of the waves lapping at the shore late at night have this tranquil effect on me, and help me think, meditate, spirit walk, whatever you call contemplating your life and your future.
The first (and only) time I've ever had sex on the beach (the act, not the drink) was at Zuma.
And I mean it was ON the beach. I started keeping blankets in the trunk of my car after that :P
My first late night visit to Zuma Beach, was 1968. My most recent visit was about two weeks ago.
Why?
My first love lived on the bluffs overlooking the ocean..
I was "defrocked" there..
The funny part is: well Its where we had great surf and bonfires in my teenage years..
thats what you get growing up in San Diego..
Lastly ,that is where I met my friend Sage of San diego there!!
oh they also have the hottest lifeguards
sincerely
Lorena
OMG!
I grew up in Encinitas, even went to San Dieguito High School, we had a surfing class at 7am.. LOVE Moonlight Beach my fav.. and used to play tennis right there by Moonlight, on HWY 101
I also love Swami's,in Cardiff-by-the-sea and Bekin's beach in Leucadia.
Interesting , its a small world!
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Then you know right where Cardiff is. Lived there in the early 80's, with our backyard on the bluff. Beautiful sunsets.
I also worked at Encinitas Surf Boards !
Naughty naughty.. Sage is quite fond of that beach aswell...
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I use to work in Serrento Valley, and swim and run at Black's beach on my lunch hours. Always kept my clothes on, and not too many people look all that good in the bright light of day.
And probably one of the best surf beaches in Ca. for eperienced surfers... lots of rocks, but great waves...
just because it's in the catalogue of happy memories
Simply beautiful, clear turquoise water.....like swimming through air....
Amazing fish of all sorts to be seen..
Smack dab in the middle of the IO just south of the equator.....
you've set off some fantastic memories.
i used to go there with legendary fabuous ex #2. she of the BBBJNQNS swallows and fur coat fuck fetish.
in fact the last happy time before the demise was there....
Purely for sentimental reasons. I was just 13 and met a young girl while on a family vacation. Just holding hands with an occasional kiss while walking down the beach. We only spent a few hours together, but for a neophyte in the world of puppy love, it was truly memorable. 
Stick it in there as far as it will go. Once the bird is firmly mounted, let it go! It will flap like crazy, and the "pop" it makes when it finally gets loose sounds like a cork from a bottle of chapagne, and it will pull every drop out of you!
The only problem I've ever had, other than the little kids watching, is the GD seagull follows me around the beach all freaking day. So do this later, when your ready to leave (unless you want multiple "pops") 
Miles and miles of white sand beaches with the ocean on one side, and several yards on the other side, tranquil lagoons. Some place only accessible by boat. Now there was the place to nude bath with your favorite someone.
in Sandwich mass its Sandyneck beach
It has great sand bars when low tide hits no under tow and beautiful clean water.
You can drive a 4wheel vehicle on the beach you can have a bonfire til midnight any night of the week. No life guards so you are on your own lots of privacy during the week its scattered with a few ppl here and there but on a week day its very private If you have a camper you can get a permit and camp on the beach for up til 3 days in a row.
The sand dunes are breath taking and there are paths that go all through them. Its just so pleasant. You can fish bring any type boat raft floaty and so on.
this beach is so private on a week day, not weekends too crowded, but a weekday you can easily have sex right there and its just fabulous.
Yet there are a great deal of wonderful beaches here in Ma this one has to be one of my all time favs.
I love how secluded it is and swimming with the big sea turtles
I just don't care for sand in places it shouldn't be.
Most of my time was spent at the 41st beach in ..........
If a gun were held to my head now-a-days i would choose the southern coast of Maine
however, of all the beaches I have seen, I would choose to go back to the Club Med on the French isle of Guadaloupe.
It was pure soft while sand, lots of palm trees, gentle surf, and because it allowed full nudity in some spots, the best God damned scenery that I've ever come upon.
(Lots of lesbian action also, no shit!)
(By the way, a towel and dark glasses come in very handy.)
Laguna Beach, California ....
Wonderful personal memories, wale watching from the patio of a beautiful hotel room in my robe with a mimosa in hand. Wonderful, artistic, laid back locals... bungalow cottage rooms nestled in the hills, chocolate covered strawberries at the candy shop, wonderful art shows year round at the art festivals, My favorite little taco shack and many cold beers, quaint shops and California beach homes painted in various colors of the sun and sea, watching the locals surf down the beach, you can lose all your worries and fall in love with that town... one of my favorites.
Yeah, it is not much to look at. It is usually packed water-to-dunes with pick-ups and 4WDs. BUT! It offers some of the finest surf fishing I have ever found. Nothing like having to drink the beer faster to make room in the coolers for all of the bluefish. Great days.
Lived in the Belmont Shore area of Long Beach, CA, for a few years, 75 feet from the sand. On the morning of the Northridge Quake in '94, the whole world shook like crazy for an eternity. When the -then-SO and I stopped shaking, we spent the rest of the day making sure that the building was safe, that the neighborhood was OK and that there was no way any of us were going to work that day.
As evening approached, we decided to walk the beach from the house down toward Belmont Pier, simply glad to be alive. On the way back, we noticed that there was nobody on the beach and that the usual police helicopter patrols were absent (guess they were busy keeping an eye on other areas that night).
Since we had a blanket with us, we sat down on the beach and proceeded to get it on in the dark and under the stars! Our own little "Fuck you, Death! We're still here!" -- celebrating just being alive in the most primal way.
for the Northridge quake, but as I recall it was say somewhere between 4 and 5am and I was setting out in front of my garage on the driveway could not sleep for some reason or another.
The freaking ground started shaking and dude, I am in Las Vegas. Could not figure it out and went for the TV. Sure enough, reports were already coming in from many miles away. That's how far that baby shook the earth.
I had a water bed at the time, and woke up to a friggin tidal wave. I lived about 90 miles from the epicenter, where it was alarming but not damaging.
I turned on the television and saw the announcer dude looking like he'd seen a ghost. I figured that he just moved to California and it was his first quake. Then as I began the commute into LA county, I realized that it was a bad one. Got a job out of it too. A company moved to OC because their building just north of Northridge stayed in one piece, so they could sell it for a pile of money. I think I even have the souvenir T-shirt.
