Favorite Beaches! - Yappi Sports

lotr10 · #1 02-10-17, 09:15 AM

In deep February, it's nice to wax nostalgic about the beach. But a beach experience is as much a state of mind as white sand, blue water and tropical breezes. So tell us about your favorite beach.

Here's one I've never been to but it looks awesome and it's in Siberia!

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Uncle Ted · #2 02-10-17, 09:24 AM

Anywhere close to Destin.

Brookville is another favorite.

Possessed · #3 02-10-17, 09:25 AM

Bahia Honda Beach in Key West has to be my favorite. Of course Miami Beach is nice, but Bahia just is a special place for me. Reminds me of the water in GITMO for snorkeling. A sea kayak and a couple days and there's so much to see. Camp 150ft from the dune. Downtown Key West is only about 30minutes away. Just a nice place.

PS. I'm planning a trip to the Dry Tortugas this year. It may take one as my fave.

lotr10 · #4 02-10-17, 09:47 AM

Two of my favorite beaches:

Surfside City Beach in South Carolina: About 15 miles south of Myrtle Beach so you avoid the crowds but nice houses right on the water, an excellent sand beach, big waves, two great state parks a couple of miles away with one north & one south of Surfside City. And just enough miniature gulf/go carts/video games to keep the teenagers occupied. And to top it off, Alligator adventure is only 20 miles away!

Kalaloch beach in the Olympic National Park: This is an amazing place with a half mile wide sand beach at low tide. Unfortunately the water is to cold to swim in and you are at risk of getting crushed by floating logs but the scenery at the beach is beyond awesome! Sunsets are amazing but the real greatness of this beach is that they let you build fires - BIG FIRES - on the beach. And you don't have to work hard to get fire wood. It's all been crushed up against the cliffs at the back of the beach (trees from the rain forest fall into the rivers are washed down to the ocean and then get pushed way up on the beach during monster winter storms). The logs burn like paper. Oh and you can drink beer on the beach!

4cards · #5 02-10-17, 09:48 AM

...Siesta Key, Fl near Sarasota who's sand is as white and as soft as baby powder!

Michael Bluth · #6 02-10-17, 09:57 AM

I will let you know at the end of May when I return from Italy

19AL63 · #7 02-10-17, 10:06 AM

As a young child my parents took us every year to East Harbour State Park on Lake Erie Had the most beautiful sand beach in Ohio. Was wonderful place to go as a child. Last time I went I was told a storm took the sand beach away and the park had become really rundown and in disrepair. This was many years ago so I do not know the state of the park today.

Michael Bluth · #8 02-10-17, 10:30 AM

I imagine this will be moving to the top of my list shortly... Positano, Italy

tallmadge H2 dad · #9 02-10-17, 10:32 AM

St Thomas, VI

Cancun, Mexico

Murell's Inlet, SC

WinstonSmith · #10 02-10-17, 11:35 AM

Looks amazing, Bluth. For me, the two best I've been to by far are Cinnamon Bay, St. John USVI and Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands. Breathtaking is the best way to describe it. No "noise" or commercial properties/businesses getting in the way.

TylerDurden · #11 02-10-17, 11:37 AM

Went to Negril for my honeymoon, the beaches there were amazing.

zeeman · #12 02-10-17, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Possessed

Bahia Honda Beach in Key West has to be my favorite. Of course Miami Beach is nice, but Bahia just is a special place for me. Reminds me of the water in GITMO for snorkeling. A sea kayak and a couple days and there's so much to see. Camp 150ft from the dune. Downtown Key West is only about 30minutes away. Just a nice place.

PS. I'm planning a trip to the Dry Tortugas this year. It may take one as my fave.

Great call on Bahia Honda! had one of the best days of my life down there on vacation. Kids were little and we snorkeled and shelled for hours and saw maybe five people the whole day. We then drove into Key West and had dinner at Blue Heaven, watched the street performers and the sunset. A perfect, beautiful day.

eastside_purple · #13 02-10-17, 02:23 PM

Horseshoe Bay in Bermuda is the most beautiful beach I've ever been to.

Michael Bluth · #14 02-10-17, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by WinstonSmith

Looks amazing, Bluth. For me, the two best I've been to by far are Cinnamon Bay, St. John USVI and Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands. Breathtaking is the best way to describe it. No "noise" or commercial properties/businesses getting in the way.

Here's a view of Positano from the balcony of the AirBnB we booked ... so pumped. May never come back to the states

ronnie mund · #15 02-10-17, 03:16 PM

Hawaii was alright.

bedevil · #16 02-10-17, 03:43 PM

Nags Head, NC. Used to be Hilton Head, but Nags Head has a slower pace that I like and beachfront homes have more privacy on the beach than the plantation/condo set-ups that dominate (or used to) Hilton Head. Going back this year.

Possessed · #17 02-10-17, 04:13 PM

Brotha from another motha ^^^^^^

Auggie · #18 02-10-17, 04:13 PM

+3 on Bahia Honda, all those hidden little coves make it feel like a private beach.

Personnel favorite though is Elbow Beech in Bermuda, pink sand with crystal blue water is unbeatable.

lotr10 · #19 02-10-17, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Michael Bluth

Here's a view of Positano from the balcony of the AirBnB we booked ... so pumped. May never come back to the states

Wow that does look sweet. I bet the food ain't to bad either!

BlackHawk · #20 02-10-17, 07:31 PM

Some of my favorites:

Waikiki Beach, HI (my #1)
Sanibel Island, FL (for shelling)
Daytona Beach, FL (for partying!...great college-daze memories)
Outer Banks, NC (perfect for a beach house family vacation)

Worst "beach": Caesar's Creek State Park, OH

19AL63 · #21 02-10-17, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by BlackHawk

Some of my favori

Worst "beach": Caesar's Creek State Park, OH

I have never seen a beach area go down hill at a state parkas fast as Caesar's Creek has. I do not know what caused it lack of money or what.

eastisbest · #22 02-10-17, 09:06 PM

I don't really "get" beaches, though that one in Positano might change my view. Can't think of anything I'd do, or not do there that I wouldn't rather do or not do elsewhere. I think you're right about beaches being a "state of mind."

Living a block from, we'd go for v-ball match or to practice. When northern visitors came, it was obligatory to go chase crabs as if that's what we did every evening. They're ok for diving, if the coral's close or launching a hobbie. I think the invention of affordable AC might have ruined them for me.

EagleGuy · #23 02-10-17, 09:28 PM

Sounds like Bermuda is a favorite of many. One day...

Outer Banks, NC (Nags Head.....) - wife and I traveled the length off the OB just for the experience, driving part of the way through a tropical storm. Otherwise, incredibly nice.

Emerald Isle, NC - family used to rent a two-story stilt house on the other side of the beach road. Family congregated in the first-floor kitchen, largely leaving me with the upstairs to myself (tv and re ading). Sweet.

Miramar Beach, FL - nice for swimming, sunning and shopping.

Special mention: Daytona Beach - this Ohio boy got his first real sunburn on an overcast day. Lesson learned fairly early in life.

irish_buffalo · #24 02-11-17, 06:56 AM

Outside Ohio = I will second Siesta Key.

Inside Ohio = East Harbor State Park.

rghrider98 · #25 02-12-17, 02:41 PM

A few of mine:

Hunting Island State Park, near Beaufort, South Carolina

Fripp Island, South Carolina - Amazing and secluded

Tybee Island, Georgia - Near Savannah. Great beach for partying.