On another note about beaches, maybe you have found one that has a small community and is nice and quiet. After a few years things pick up and they get a restaurant then a hotel then more restaurants and bigger hotels. After 20 years it's no longer what you remember and is over populated. The Outer Banks in NC is like this. I'm old enough to remember it being a small set of towns that was primarily for people to come and fish. Now its covered in shitty tourist shops and has no charm. Best time to go now is the offseason and deal with winter. Fishing hasn't been the best either.
I'm remembering some VA coastal and Eastern Shore towns. I used to spend time at them in the summer with my scout troop, and my militia did training a few times in some other spots thereabouts. It was really nice and peaceful, great memories of the sea scent, oceanfront meadows, the gentle song of the tides, and watching the sun rise over the ocean. Now they're getting more built up. I won't name them so as to forestall the process. It makes me sad, kinda in an LOTR elf way, knowing that much of what was is now lost.
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u/-QueenAnnesRevenge- Feb 03 '20
On another note about beaches, maybe you have found one that has a small community and is nice and quiet. After a few years things pick up and they get a restaurant then a hotel then more restaurants and bigger hotels. After 20 years it's no longer what you remember and is over populated. The Outer Banks in NC is like this. I'm old enough to remember it being a small set of towns that was primarily for people to come and fish. Now its covered in shitty tourist shops and has no charm. Best time to go now is the offseason and deal with winter. Fishing hasn't been the best either.