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A FAMILIAR BOARD WALK

This was Ocean City Maryland, a place I have visited many times thirty years ago. The thing I noticed about beaches was that they all have their own unique personality. I saw so many beaches in 2004, San Francisco to San Diego and Florida to Maine. 

Some beaches are beach front private homes and stony shorelines that are great for finding sea shells at low tide. The long white sand beaches with white surf and surfers. Just a warning, never ever use those portable toilets. Still others are strangely empty, perhaps the 50 degree water was a factor. 

I watched young Canadians surf in Maine, with light wet suits, no boots, gloves or hoods. But these are the same people who play ice hockey, perhaps my desert rat wimp factor is showing. 

There are flat hard packed sand beaches suitable for truck and car traffic. Some are places to take your family. Some you you get drunk, get a tattoo and get lucky. 

I enjoyed them all, as I slowly drifted through.