I wish I was at the beach

[Crazy_Jezabel]

I've only lived in Holland for 3 years now (well actually it'll be 3 years on May 11th), but I'm pretty sure it's not normal for the weather to be this warm in April. It's an extremely warm day out today. It was an extremely warm day yesterday too.

The reason I love very warm weather is because you can go swimming. Sadly I don't have any money to buy a train ticket to go to the beach. And I'm not even sure if the water is warm enough to swim in. There's an indoor pool right down the street from us but you have to pay 2 or 3 Euros (I can't remember anymore) for only an hour to swim. Although, children are in school now so I'm pretty sure there won't be any screaming kids at the pool, so maybe it wouldn't be so bad to pay 2 or 3 Euros.

 

[Crazy_Jezabel]

I've read on yahoo mail that the East Coast of the USA got hit with a storm. New Jeresey which is where my family is declaired a state of an emergancy.

Usually we have the same type of weather as in New Jersey. I remember at the end of last year the East Coast was having good weather and we were having storms.

 

[firstclassmale]

well I live minutes from one of the best voted beaches in usa .beach pics would be sexy .

 

[Crazy_Jezabel]

Which beach is that?

Supposely the Cape May beach is one of the best beaches in the USA. When I lived in the USA I lived about 10 minutes away from the beach.

Yes, beach pictures would be sexy. Very sexy.

 

[firstclassmale]

I have spent many summers visiting lots of beaches and cape may and wildwood along the jersey shore is among them.also the beaches along the carolinas are awesome.the beaches in cape cod are scenic but man its cold cold cold.ugh.

 

[AboutFace]

Oh, I'd love to be at the beach also. Oh wait.... I already am at the beach. I just haven't had time to start my daily sand walks yet.

We had the storm here, too. We just didn't get the damage that happened elsewhere.

 

[Crazy_Jezabel]

I hear the Carolina beaches are really nice. I've never been there myself, but my mom has. My aunt and her are eventually going to move to North Carolina, but away from the beach area. Supposely it's a lot cheaper to live there.

I used to like the Cape May Beach up until about 8 or 9 years ago (I know I'm only 25, but I've been going there since I was a baby). Then there were suddnely stones everywhere in the ocean and you could barely walk through it to get into the ocean where it was comforable.

I don't like the Wildwood beach because it takes forever to walk to the ocean. I do lke the North Wildwood and Wildwhood Crest beach though.

The only other beaches I've been to were the Avalon beach, Ocean City Maryland Beach, the Virigina Beach, two beaches here in the Netherlands, and a Sicilan beach when my husband and I went to Siicly.

 

[Crazy_Jezabel]

Oh, I'd love to be at the beach also. Oh wait.... I already am at the beach. I just haven't had time to start my daily sand walks yet.

We had the storm here, too. We just didn't get the damage that happened elsewhere.

So it's warm in North Carolina?

My mom says it's freezing in New Jersey.

 

[AboutFace]

So it's warm in North Carolina?

My mom says it's freezing in New Jersey.

It is rather chilly for this time of year - yesterday was COLD. It will be around 65 degrees today, but very windy. It still is beautiful, though!

I'm only about 7 miles from a public beach - and it is really nice. These are family beaches around here, so my kids enjoy it also. They are clean and have really nice sand.

 

[bangmywalls]

I too love the beach. Here in Northern California, Monterey area has some of the best. Monterey itself (the aquarium, fresh clam chowder at Fisherman's Wharf), Pacifica (very picturesque), Capitola (small but lovely beach, lots of quaint little shops, and the most wonderfully romantic restaurant). The very aptly named Sand City is more rugged but beautiful in its own way. But the water can be VERY cold!

We did find a beach at Lake Tahoe (much closer to us than Monterey is) that I don't think a lot of people know about. The whole beachfront is only about a block long, but nice lakefront sand that feels great squsihing between your toes, and shaded by several trees.

Maui had my favorite beaches, very warm, fun to play in, splash in. My husband and I went to a nude beach on Maui on a weekday when nobody was around, and made the most wonderful love in the gently lapping surf! I think my favorite beach memory EVER!

 

[old_fool]

It is rather chilly for this time of year - yesterday was COLD. It will be around 65 degrees today, but very windy. It still is beautiful, though!

I'm only about 7 miles from a public beach - and it is really nice. These are family beaches around here, so my kids enjoy it also. They are clean and have really nice sand.

65 degrees sounds heavenly! To stroll on the beach with a real woman sounds delicious. We will be cold, but we can keep each other warm with the promise of the heat that will encompase us both later.

The beauty is that it surrounds us.

 

[Crazy_Jezabel]

I too love the beach. Here in Northern California, Monterey area has some of the best. Monterey itself (the aquarium, fresh clam chowder at Fisherman's Wharf), Pacifica (very picturesque), Capitola (small but lovely beach, lots of quaint little shops, and the most wonderfully romantic restaurant). The very aptly named Sand City is more rugged but beautiful in its own way. But the water can be VERY cold!

We did find a beach at Lake Tahoe (much closer to us than Monterey is) that I don't think a lot of people know about. The whole beachfront is only about a block long, but nice lakefront sand that feels great squsihing between your toes, and shaded by several trees.

Maui had my favorite beaches, very warm, fun to play in, splash in. My husband and I went to a nude beach on Maui on a weekday when nobody was around, and made the most wonderful love in the gently lapping surf! I think my favorite beach memory EVER!

The ocean in Sicily was very warm, but I didn't really like the beach that much. I was kind of disapointed in it. The sand was dark brown and there were stones in the ocean. Just like the Cape May beach you had to go through the pain of walking through the stones before getting to a spot that had no stones. One of the days we were there I was enjoying the ocean. I was smelling the ocean and looking at the beautiful scene. I was also amazed that I could see through the water. It was my first time in a clear ocean like that. I was looking on the buttom and I suddenly saw this HUGE turtle. I'm a HUGE animal lover, but the turtle suddenly freaked me out and I ran out fo the ocean. My husband laughed at me (He doesn't really like to swim so he was video taping me swimming). I asked him if turtles that size bite, and he's like big turtles are no different from little turtles. They only bite to eat and if they feel threatened. I was like okay, so then I eventually went back in the ocean to hopefully see the turtle again.

I would love to go to Hawaai someday. I want to go in an area where the waves are big. Sometimes on the Cape May Beach you had fairly big waves and my cousin and I loved swimming in the big waves. Our parents had a fit when we were kids and did that.

My grandmother taought me how to swim in the ocean when I was 4 or 5 years old, so because of that I'm a fairly strong swimmer. I tried to learn how to surf once, and it didn't go so well. I couldn't keep my ballance on the board and I kept getting hit in the head and the sholders with the board.

 

[AboutFace]

65 degrees sounds heavenly! To stroll on the beach with a real woman sounds delicious. We will be cold, but we can keep each other warm with the promise of the heat that will encompase us both later.

The beauty is that it surrounds us.

Chilly or warm is all a matter of perspective. I've been here too long for that temp, accompanied by the wind, to feel warm to me. Having someone here to keep me warm would be very welcome - has been too long.

Today is looking to be much warmer. I think that I may take the girls for a walk on the beach. (they are also known as dogs.... but shhhh.... don't tell them. they think they are furry children)

 

[kittykateater]

The ocean in Sicily was very warm, but I didn't really like the beach that much. I was kind of disapointed in it. The sand was dark brown and there were stones in the ocean. Just like the Cape May beach you had to go through the pain of walking through the stones before getting to a spot that had no stones. One of the days we were there I was enjoying the ocean. I was smelling the ocean and looking at the beautiful scene. I was also amazed that I could see through the water. It was my first time in a clear ocean like that. I was looking on the buttom and I suddenly saw this HUGE turtle. I'm a HUGE animal lover, but the turtle suddenly freaked me out and I ran out fo the ocean. My husband laughed at me (He doesn't really like to swim so he was video taping me swimming). I asked him if turtles that size bite, and he's like big turtles are no different from little turtles. They only bite to eat and if they feel threatened. I was like okay, so then I eventually went back in the ocean to hopefully see the turtle again.

I would love to go to Hawaai someday. I want to go in an area where the waves are big. Sometimes on the Cape May Beach you had fairly big waves and my cousin and I loved swimming in the big waves. Our parents had a fit when we were kids and did that.

My grandmother taought me how to swim in the ocean when I was 4 or 5 years old, so because of that I'm a fairly strong swimmer. I tried to learn how to surf once, and it didn't go so well. I couldn't keep my ballance on the board and I kept getting hit in the head and the sholders with the board.

Bangmywalls and I went to the beach at Cape May two years ago. We liked it very much!

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When I was 10, my grandma died. She left my mom enough money to take her 3 sons through Europe for 5 weks to visit various relatives. We had family scattered from England to Italy.

The beach at Nice, France, is black rock, not at all pleasant. But for some reason, my mom decided that was the place I should have swimming lessons! So here I was at 10, trying to learn to swim in the choppy waves of the Mediterranenan sea, while some strange and slightly terrifying man shouts instructons at me: in French! I dont know WHY mom thought this was a good idea!

Well, I suddenly got caught in an undertow, and I felt myeself getting sucked down into the sea. I literally didnt know which way was up any more! There was just dark water on all sides of me.

I lucked out, as a big wave started to push me toward shore. I could see the sunlight, and so I figured out which way was up. I don't know how I did it, since I couldn't swim, I guess it was pure survival instinct, but I somehow struggled to the surface, and the big wave washed me back to shore.

After that experience, I didn't go back in the water for quite some time, and I guess it was another 2 or 3 years before I learned how to swim. Now I enjoy swimming, but I still can't and won't swim under water. My head remains above water at all times when I swim, whether breast stroke, side stroke, etc. And I only swim in pools, or skinny-dipping in calm little lakes with Bangmywalls (her beckoning to me naked from in the lake, helps me overcome any lingering fears! ), or playing and splashing and loving in the surf with her, right at the shore line of the ocean....but after that experience at 10, I never actually get IN the ocean.

 

[Crazy_Jezabel]

That's odd that your mother would teach you how to swim while the ocean was dangerous. I guess the one good thing about it is that you know you can swim good when you need to.

My grandmother taught me how to swim in the ocean while it was calm to start out with. Then she slowly taught me how to swim in waves.

I almost drowned 2 times. One time I was in the ocean with my mother. I was about 11 or 12. A huge wave came and knocked us both under roughly. My mom never went fully into the ocean again and I figured it was worth the risk to swim in the ocean again. Another time was when I was body boarding. I didn't quite make it onto the board when a big wave hit and it wound up hitting me in the head and knocking me under water. I rolled in the wave until it was over.

I always thought beaches in the South of France would be similar to the beaches in Hawaai. Whenever I see programs about the South of Frances the beaches look very pretty. But then again I thought the same about Sicilian beaches. Well the water was good, but the sand wasn't so good.

 

[kittykateater]

That's odd that your mother would teach you how to swim while the ocean was dangerous. I guess the one good thing about it is that you know you can swim good when you need to.

My grandmother taught me how to swim in the ocean while it was calm to start out with. Then she slowly taught me how to swim in waves.

I almost drowned 2 times. One time I was in the ocean with my mother. I was about 11 or 12. A huge wave came and knocked us both under roughly. My mom never went fully into the ocean again and I figured it was worth the risk to swim in the ocean again. Another time was when I was body boarding. I didn't quite make it onto the board when a big wave hit and it wound up hitting me in the head and knocking me under water. I rolled in the wave until it was over.

I always thought beaches in the South of France would be similar to the beaches in Hawaai. Whenever I see programs about the South of Frances the beaches look very pretty. But then again I thought the same about Sicilian beaches. Well the water was good, but the sand wasn't so good.

I don't think mom or the swim instructor realized how bad the waves were. But I didn't speak French and the swim instructor didn't speak English, so that alone made these lessons a bad idea!

Sorry to hear of your two near-drownings. I guess you're braver than I am, to go back to swimming in the ocean after that.

I can't speak to the rest of France, but the beach we went to at Nice is black rock, I think maybe volcanic or something. It is tiny rocks, pebbles, and some are kind of sharp, really not a great beach. The sea was kind of a strange shade of blue, different from the ocean I gew up around in New Jersey. The French call the area "Cote de Azur" or "azure coast" (azure describing the shade of blue of the sea there).

I did find one piece of broken ancient pottery on the beach at Nice, it really stood out from the black rocks, I guess it had been washed up from the sea, I kept it for many years but didn't take it with me when I moved to California. I have no idea how old this little pottery piece was or if it was valuable. I just remember the broken piece was red clay and had a yellow flower decoration that was very crudely and primitively painted on, it didn't look or feel like modern paints and it looked very old, like it had been in the water for centuries. Guess I should have kept it and had it appraised. Probably not very valuable, since it was only the one little shard, not a complete clay pot.

Hawaii has some black volcanic rock on some beaches, too, but these are huge hardened lava flows, like slabs, they are many yards long, not pebbles like in Nice. And most of the beaches we saw on Maui are conventional sand.

 

[Crazy_Jezabel]

I don't think mom or the swim instructor realized how bad the waves were. But I didn't speak French and the swim instructor didn't speak English, so that alone made these lessons a bad idea!

Sorry to hear of your two near-drownings. I guess you're braver than I am, to go back to swimming in the ocean after that.

I can't speak to the rest of France, but the beach we went to at Nice is black rock, I think maybe volcanic or something. It is tiny rocks, pebbles, and some are kind of sharp, really not a great beach. The sea was kind of a strange shade of blue, different from the ocean I gew up around in New Jersey. The French call the area "Cote de Azur" or "azure coast" (azure describing the shade of blue of the sea there).

I did find one piece of broken ancient pottery on the beach at Nice, it really stood out from the black rocks, I guess it had been washed up from the sea, I kept it for many years but didn't take it with me when I moved to California. I have no idea how old this little pottery piece was or if it was valuable. I just remember the broken piece was red clay and had a yellow flower decoration that was very crudely and primitively painted on, it didn't look or feel like modern paints and it looked very old, like it had been in the water for centuries. Guess I should have kept it and had it appraised. Probably not very valuable, since it was only the one little shard, not a complete clay pot.

Hawaii has some black volcanic rock on some beaches, too, but these are huge hardened lava flows, like slabs, they are many yards long, not pebbles like in Nice. And most of the beaches we saw on Maui are conventional sand.

If my grandmother didn't teach me how to swim in the ocean I probably would have drowned those two times. i'm a pretty strong swimmer so I was able to get out of it. my grandmother also loved swimming in the ocean when she was younger.

The Sicilian beach probably was also from volcanic rocks since Mount Etna was very close by. The water was very nice and a clear like, but it was the sand area that I was disapointed in.

I do think it's odd that your mother chose a French instructor. Did you speak any German at that time? I know you said your mom is from Germany. Maybe she should have chosen a beach in Germany so at least she could understand the instructor.

 

[kittykateater]

If my grandmother didn't teach me how to swim in the ocean I probably would have drowned those two times. i'm a pretty strong swimmer so I was able to get out of it. my grandmother also loved swimming in the ocean when she was younger.

The Sicilian beach probably was also from volcanic rocks since Mount Etna was very close by. The water was very nice and a clear like, but it was the sand area that I was disapointed in.

I do think it's odd that your mother chose a French instructor. Did you speak any German at that time? I know you said your mom is from Germany. Maybe she should have chosen a beach in Germany so at least she could understand the instructor.

I hadn't really leared German yet at that time (age 10), I studied it in high school. My mom was multi-lingual (fluent in German, English, French, Spanish, and Portugese...which is significantly different from Spanish) and she even spoke a little bit of Russian. So she did understand the instructor. But she wasn't close by to hear and translate for me! And for some reason, neither mom, my 2 brothers, nor instructor were around when I was pulled under! I was on my own!

I guess I'm a strong swimmer, too. I can swim for hours. But to this day I will NOT let my head get under water when I swim. People tell me it looks funny, but I don't care, I feel safer swimming that way. Pretty hard to drown when your mouth never gets under water!

 

[Galene]

You don't drown from putting your head in the water, you drown from not knowing what to do when the unexpected occurs.
I'm a good swimmer but I never take risks.
The beaches here in Greece are much friendlier than the Italian ones.