McGee wrote:[quote="longlinergirlI like the Bay Campus...its great for the kids.
Hey, thanks for reminding me about that!! I'm training for the Save the Bay swim in July and that is where I'm going to go to practice. No waves, warmer than the ocean side, and close enough to the beach bars to wash down the salt water![/quote]
well maybe I'll see ya there
Eat seafood? Use bait? Thank a commercial fisherman.
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Nauset or Hammonasett in Connecticut. There is a great place for shore dinners on the Boston Post Road near Hammonasett. The towns on either side are harbor towns, but that town is a town with about 6 miles of beach. YOu can see across the Sound to eastern Long Island.
Favorite harbor town though is Old Stonington CT which still has a real fleet. Parking there is a pain, however. These are all off the I-95 or you can take a train. Get off at Old Saybrook or Waverly RI.
Sandwich Beach on the Cape, too. the water is actually warm.
parrotsgirl wrote:Seabrook Beach is my favorite....for swimming and enjoying the beach...
Hampton is nice if you want to park and walk the strip.....
I love Seabrook but there are NO public facilities or non-resident parking that I'm aware of. Extended family has a place there where they let us park and use their bathroom.
Hampton is kind of honky-tonk but has a good sandy beach that doesn't disappear at high tide (like North Hampton). Decent public facilities and plenty of places to get food. Parking is getting expensive!
As a child we often went to "Short Sands" York, ME. Narrow beach but good facilities.
In all of the above options the water is FREAKIN' COLD most days. A warn day at Hampton the water will be 72 degrees, most days it's in the 60s.
Grand Exalted Bubba of the Order of the Sleepless Knights
and, for the 'soundtrack', Little Hunters Beach on Acadia (waves on stones...almost as good a sound as breakers at Nags Head)
Salt air it ain't thin,
It can stick right to your skin,
And make you feel fine
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
– Mr Twain
drunkpirate66 wrote:We finally had a rain free Saturday up here in New England and I took full advantage. I took my dad sailing up around Gloucester by Wingarsheek Beach for Father's Day which is one of my all time favorite beaches - anywhere. Just wondering, since Great Woods is right around the corner, what my fellow Parrot Heads thought about their favorite New England Beaches? I hope Hampton Beach, New Hamshire makes the list.
I hate Hampton Beach. Try Weiss Sands Beach in Rye, about 10 miles north on the right from Hampton Beach after the Genness State Beach.
If you want an experience, go to a Jimmy Buffett concert.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
I only go to Hampton because of the kids (teenagers!). I thought it was much cleaner than in the past. There is stuff to do there. The Casino had lots of good shows this year.
Block Island is my favorite!! Oh wait...I love Horseneck too!!
not a fan of the Connecticut beaches......Nauset is nice.......also Calhoun in Wellfleet........Craigville i like.......also the one in Hyannisport near the Kennedy compound!!!
A warn day at Hampton the water will be 72 degrees, most days it's in the 60s.
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on "that white carpet" just outside my office. chipmunk bits and such!! wanna come over and help clean it up??? 
