The beach

Anyone live near the beach? Share your beach experiences, or share your worst beach experience. Especially for those who live near venice or the jersey shore.

My freshman year in college, the campus put on a "beach party" as part of their whole freshman orientation. I thought it sounded fun, so I went. We took a bus to Lake Erie, only to learn that the bacteria levels were so high that we couldn't go in the water. It was cool enough that everybody was wearing jeans and hoodies, and the mosquitoes were everywhere. Really set the tone for what a letdown higher education turned out to be.

There's incredible beaches out there, and then there are others that just bring out the weirdest folks. I always see this guy skating around and telling people that it's okay to "swerve". I have no idea:
  

Anyone live near the beach? Share your beach experiences, or share your worst beach experience. Especially for those who live near venice or the jersey shore.

Anyone have any bad experiences?

Live in London so no beach for me at the Mo :-(

The dude that skates around Venice is more of a celebrity than I thought:
  

I wish i lived near a beach. I love the beach. I love pop duo Beach House too.

It's one of those things where you miss it when you're not near, but then ignore it when you're close to it. I'm a few miles away from the beach, and it's great to just go whenever I want. But then again, i don't take advantage of its close distance enough.

There's only one nice beach where I live that's 45 minutes away has high waves,white sand,and even a nature trail

I live about 23 miles from a great beach in Holland, very pretty girls there all the time!.................

   

I used to live very close to the beach. I've seen that guy around venice before. I'm surprised I haven't seen him anywhere else.

I'd never live on the beach because I'll never be able to afford to. The price of waterfront property is outrageous.

I used to live very close to the beach. I've seen that guy around venice before. I'm surprised I haven't seen him anywhere else.

I don't really see a lot of strange things at the beach. I should do more people watching.

I wish I could live near a beach.

Looks like that dude from venice was used in a meme:

Only been to a beach once in the states, but I spent 15 months deployed which was a beach without the water, or the girls....

Where were you at? I take it you didn't see anything weird like a dude in a skin-colored suit.

Here's part two of that news story on that guy. It's pretty cool that he's getting all this attention. But then again, if others see that he's getting attention, more and more street performers will start hanging at the beach.