Beach Family Vacations US
Beachy Stories Spring is finally here and we'll be heading to the beach soon! See what you find on the beach and let me know! I'm interested in hearing about your "beachy stories." Just returning back from my romantic beach trip, I yearn to be there again. Especially this time of the year. To hear those crashing waves beating on the shoreline, view the endless colorful sunsets, and smell that fresh ocean air. To feel the warm sand between my toes, and best of all, taste the fresh fish I cook only hours after being caught. Of course, right now we just got through winter and it's not quite time for the beach yet, but I figured out a way to get through it. I'll just write about the beaches from all over. And hopefully, I'll READ about the beaches. That is where you come in. I think my favorite part of being at the "romantic beach" is walking along and seeing what I can find. YOU JUST NEVER KNOW. You can find ANYTHING on the beach. Anything that can survive the mighty sea and wash up on shore is fair game. Amongst the seashells and sea glass art (my favorite thing), there are often other hidden treasures. Let's hear about yours.. Fill out form at the bottom of the page.
Here’s some responses from travelers about their Family Beach Vacations in the US and the most bizarre thing they found on the beach.
The strangest thing I found on the beach was...
Just whale bones (vertebrae).
I found a tennis shoe. And dozens of fast food wrappers. <
I found a dead jellyfish.
You can tell I never go to the beach.
When I was a kid, my cousin & I used to search for sharks teeth on Myrtle Beach - we found quite a few. When I was Looking for the teeth, I found a rusty looking rock - it turned out to be a bullet - about 3 inches long, maybe four, encrusted in the rock. Maybe from the civil war? Who knows. Anyway, I still have it.
I found an "Urn" do not know what it is exactly called, but it is a solid oak box, with beautiful copper handles about as big as a brick of butter where some one's ashes were put. Some one then scattered the ashes in the sea with the box and I found it washed up on the beach.
I had found a statue of Buddha, five months ago.
Once I was at a beach. I was a little girl, and for some reason, decided it would be fun to dig my cousins' shoes in the sand, only that when I went to start digging, I came across an old bone that was all black from all the mold because it had been there for a long time. I didn't know what kind of bone it was. It was large, so it could have possibly been a human skeleton bone. It certainly had the thickness of a human skeleton bone. I was so repulsed by it, that I buried it back in the sand, and never brought it up to anyone. This is the first time I've ever mentioned it to anyone.
Myself. I was briefly shipwrecked off the coast of Costa Rica. Rescued when private cruiser hired by a honeymooning couple intending to spend a weekend at a deserted island arrived in the afternoon. Good luck for me, really.
dead sea thing. My brother told me this when we were at the beach and I saw it with my own eyes.
I kissed a mermaid once. She told me she was kind of pissed off because some one keeps walking the coast picking up all her stuff! Other than that I found a glass fishing ball once, I found a down jacket I had cleaned and its still in great shape. Some money, too, which might total about $200 now over many years. A whale bone, a shark tooth.
Well, there's not many interesting things on the coast, in my opinion. I lived in Atlantic City, NJ for 11 or 12 years of my life and then moved to Mays Landing, NJ, which is only about 20 minutes away. There are shells, and pebbles, and algae. And Seagulls. After living so close to the beach, you'd think that I'd get used to the seagulls. No. I am terrified of them! lol. Traumatizing experiences.
Anyway, there was one day, though, where my cousin from Columbia, SC came to visit. She wanted to go to the beach, so we did. While there, we saw something adorable. Baby seagulls. Now in all of the 12 years I've lived in AC, I'd never seen one. They were without a mother, but we didn't want to mess around with them. But there were two toddlers, about 2 and 3, sitting there with them and naming the babies as there own.
A coconut. Big deal. Only it washed in from Hawai'i during a big storm, all the way to California. The coast current runs north to south here so it could not have floated in from Mexico, the only other possibility would be the Philippines and thats clearly impossible so it had to be Hawai'i. As it happened a Hawaiian guy was surf fishing on the beach when I found it, we talked it over, I always wondered if the Polynesian sailors had ever made it to the Americas and he said he thought so, there are some capes and headlands in Oregon with very Polynesian sounding names. Other than that I found a glass fishing ball once, I found a down jacket I had cleaned and its still in great shape. Some money, too, which might total about $200 now over many years. A whale bone, a shark tooth.
Xcalak Sea Glass
Debbie DeLuna
Prescott, Arizona
My most unusual sea glass find took place this past February in Xcalak, Quintana Roo. I had found a large amount of Mayan pottery shards during my vacation, but I did not hold out much hope in finding any sea glass because the Caribbean is so calm. I didn't think the gentle water could produce the frosty beautiful sea glass that I have found in California. I was walking along the beach shore in search of treasures and when I looked down and saw what seemed to be a perfectly frosted perfume stopper, exactly like one I had seen in my book on sea glass. I held my treasure tightly in my had and ran back to my dad's house to show my husband. He was as excited as I was about my find. When we returned to our home in Arizona, I opened my book to the page discussing perfume stoppers and my beautiful glass treasure matched the picture exactly. What an exciting find!
Thank you so much for all your entrees and keep them coming!!!
AND THEN WE HAVE THE COMMEDIANS...
One time while walking down the beach, I found a wallet. I opened it up and discovered that it belonged to some guy name Jimmy Hoffa. I think that’s what it was. Anyway, there was a shovel laying there and some over-urned sand, so I figured he must have been looking for treasure and lost it. There was no money in it so I chucked it in the ocean. Where was that? Oh I can't remember now, anyhow it's not important.
A bottle with a note that said "Mayday! Mayday! - Love, Amelia".
It looked like junk, so I threw it away.
Thanks so much for the humor! Something we can never get enough of!
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Have A Great Story About a "Beach Find"?
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1.) Your family and friends can read your story on the web.
2.) While you're writing your story you will counteract those "wintertime blues."
3.) If I publish your story, you'll receive a free piece of sea glass art.
I'd like to hear any stories you have about the beach, so feel free to write, but I'd especially like to hear about your favorite or most unusual "beach find".
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