Best beaches in the continental U.S.

Geez, you must be a real tiger. Would I need to dedicate myself to a rigorous training regimen for this? I can do it, I know I can!

Cue-Rocky
Rocky drinking raw eggs and running through the streets of Philadelphia to the sounds of "gonna fly now"

cute :-)

I didn't like my last post, so I changed it. It wasn't up to my usual standard of greatness. Plus, it made me look like a woos.

Wow Kicker, you sure know how to have a good time :-)

Funny! Gotta go to bed now. Goodnight, my favorite virtual tease.

I changed yours also lol I do like talking to you- KICKY, such a good sport :-)

I like the rocky scenario, it's APT lol

Sorry, to interrupt your little tetatè, but the West Coast
needs to make a point here too.

We do have some beautiful beaches here, although not
as sandy as South Beach, nevertheless very breathtaking
as well.

Santa Monica and Venice Beach are entertainment pure
and here is the coastline where I live close by.
click here

Nice pictures. God I love the beach...

I've been to
Hilton Head....pretty good.
Savannah Beach, Tybee Island...dirty!
Jekyll Island....quite dirty.
Daytona....nicer, but wall-to-wall people and cars.
Myrtle Beach....too commercial, and not so great.
Fernadina Beach....dirty.

The Outer Banks beaches were by far the cleanest, and sparsely used. Love that place.

Has anyone been to Cumberland Island? Its highly regulated, and is supposed to have some neat protected habitats. I'd love to check it out.

Once upon a time I lived in NY as well and
I liked going to the NJ Shores - Sandy Hook, Ashbury Park,
or all the way out to the Hamptons - Montauk.

Like Letty, I am mostly familiar with West Coast beaches and then only the ones north of Monterey. I think they're incredible. I grew up in a very small town named Half Moon Bay and our house was just a skip across the pea patch to the beach. I spent every day that weather allowed doing my homework there after school or reading books and just playing in the summers. We had many fun nights of bonfires and daisy petal wine. Exploring the tidepools and sleeping under the stars to the sound of the waves was always fun too.

Now, living north of San Francisco, I go mostly to Bodega Bay (remember Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds?" The school house is still there.)

I'll be moving much further inland next year, but I will always come back to the Pacific every chance I get....

Jane, I once lived across from the Cove in your city...

Up in north north California, as I call it, we have a gorgeous beach at Trinidad. Not that same type of sunbathing frenzy here that you find so much in Southern California... as this part of the coast is cooler.

http://www.humboldt1.com/~popenoe/scenes/Trinidad.htm

I used to live in west Los Angeles, and spent a lot of my early life getting crispy skin at Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice, Manhattan Beach, and Corona del Mar.. by the time I was in my thirties, I stopped frying my bod and started walking.. at the shore and ocean front walk of Venice Beach and Santa Monica, probably thousands of walking miles, all told.

Oh, how interesting ossobuco. I also lived near
the cove until it got too noisy and way too touristy for me.
Now I'm up on the hillside - yet still a stone throw away
from the beach, where we just took a walk. It's just
gorgeous weather today.

The coastline of Trinidad looks very beautiful. I do like
the northern part of California as well - Big Sur, Monterrey,
Carmel.

You're right though, nowadays frying in the Sun is not
apropos any longer. I'm fair skinned anyway and have to
be very careful.