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...how can this be enjoyable!
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i live by the sea and it amazes me how people will drive, then queue to park, then sit on a crowded beach before queueing to leave.
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cos it was doing this on saturday in kernow.
I didn't get to go despite being 25miles away.
...how can this be enjoyable!
You might catch a glimpse of a pair of boobies.
(Other sea birds are available, etc.)
oh stop being grumpy arses 😉 , we seemingly have so little proper hot weather, why complain when ppl try to use it?
the woman in the foreground checking out her nipple?how can this be enjoyable!
A beach near me hardly gets anyone sitting on it for let's say 360 days of the year, but Sat and Sun and it was plastered from shingle to lightly lapping briney, today it's half full already..
Looks like being a fave spot for another couple of days yet before it turns back into the "kite beach behind the bird sanctuary where yer hair gets blown off"
Marvellous.
Bet the M3 back upto London was rammed last night...
how can this be enjoyable!
Some would ask the same regarding riding a MTB through a godforesaken, wind and rain blasted moor in the depths of winter.
Bet the local tourist industry is getting a nice little boost. Stop moaning.
I live 5 min's from a beach. To be frank, on sunny days hundreds of people from outside our little town, come, use the beach, drink, act pretty badly, making it unsuitable for me to take my son, leave massive amounts of litter, then go home.
They can go **** themselves
Maybe they just come to bask in the charm and hospitality of the locals?
I live 5 min's from a beach. To be frank, on sunny days hundreds of people from outside our little town, come, use the beach, drink, act pretty badly, making it unsuitable for me to take my son, leave massive amounts of litter, then go home.
They can go **** themselves
Such a pity that they're actually public places 🙄
Such a pity that they're actually public places
So, because it's a public space people can be abusive, aggressive and leave vast amounts of litter everywhere?
😯
maybe you should head inland on sunny days and crap on their doorsteps warton?
Northumberland coast yesterday afternoon 🙂
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I've been doing that for years wwaswas 😀
Not just in summer either
My local playa an hour or two ago. Heading down for a dip after training.
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I was doing a swimming event at Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour yesterday. Leaving Sandbanks at about midday the queue the other way to get onto sandbanks and into the car park was about 2 miles long. Sandbanks is one of the uk's (world's?) most expensive places to buy a house. If I had to suffer that sort of conjestion to drive to my own house there's no way I'd have paid out 5 or 6 million for it.
Can I just be the first to say that trying to get a few odd jobs done around the garden today (bit of strimming, bit of pruning, bit of chainsaw action) - it's actually a bit too hot today! We brits are never satisifed!
can't see the point in it either, i grew up 25min from a beach and as a family we would drive down at 5:30 just as everyone was coming back passing the long queues of cars sat in the heat then walk along the beach for a bit and grab an ice-cream or fish and chips and watch the sun go down. i still don't get sitting on a beach being burn't to a crisp while the dregs of humanity seethe in close proximity.
Convert - the right hand lane round sandbanks bypasses the ferry queue so the bentleys and astons can get home (there's also a load of free parking roadside just past the ferry which most people miss).
Apparently there was a 10-mile tailback coming out of Bournemouth yesterday afternoon 😯 It often gets bad but not usually that bad on sunny days - I think the summer has been condensed to one weekend this years in most peoples minds due to the cold spell earlier and last years washout, so everyone was trying to get a bit of British beach time in one hit.
If the weather stays good, it'll calm down a bit, so I'll get my beach time in a few weeks (and the water might be a bit warmer by then too).
Anyway I think its great people heading down this way and enjoying our wonderful coast (although preferable if they clear up after themselves).
Just feel the love on this thread 😀
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Beaches are horrible for sunbathing on. Sand, used tampons and condoms, salty water. Yuck.
We got caught in the traffic going down south Saturday morning. I was trying to get to a family event and not the bloomin beach!
Ryde beach was pretty busy yesterday, but it was wonderful out there. Lots of nice ladies / men / walruses (whichever is your preference) on the beach.
Sure the grockles are a pain in the arse, but they spend their money here then they **** off lobstered up back to the holes they came from, leaving the beaches clear for us natives to enjoy.
BoardinBob - MemberBeaches are horrible for sunbathing on. Sand, used tampons and condoms, salty water. Yuck.
WTF do you go on holiday? Kings Cross? 😯
Depth of field is making it look busier than it is?
Bournemouth looked to be a shocker yesterday - we passed the traffic going the other way.
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That ^^^ is my worst nightmare.
Flip flops, check
Buck fast, check
Sun cream, nae chance
Pocket knife, check
Or you could do as our locals do:
http://www.westfm.co.uk/news/local/police-reassure-people-after-ayr-beach-riot/
The seafront has always attracted people on a sunny weekend;
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I love the family in the middle of it all;
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Brighton police used to wear proper hats too;
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I considered going to the beach yesterday, but instead I took the little one to the local baths and when she had a post lunchtime snooze I had 2 cans of grolsch and dozed in the sun. Absolutely glorious.
Tell me about we went Friday night and could hardly move.
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I raised an eyebrow on Sat when the GF said she wanted to go to the seaside.
Swanage? Really? A cul-de-sac? On the hottest day of the year so far?
OK then.
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Far too much pink, white and badly tattooed flesh on display for my liking.
Not from my GF, he edited hastily. 😀
Decent boozer just behind you, IIRC, Drac.
Their lobster was superb last time I was there!
10 miles.. West Wittering was worse than that, my mate lives down there and they were still queuing at 6 to get onto the beach which closes at 8.
2-3 hours stationary in a car in 30degs with 2 kids in the back. I bet there were some frazzled tempers. I'd NEVER consider that kind of nonsense but if that's what floats your boat...
I grew up near this beach in Norfolk, like others have said, when you're local it's the natural thing to just stroll down as the sun is setting and the crowds have gone.
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absolute bliss, the beaches down here on the South Coast are awful.
Decent boozer just behind you, IIRC, Drac.
Wrong beach but I'll let you off as we have so many to chose from but most are quieter than that one.
the beach which closes at 8.
Crowded beaches like that give me hives just looking at the photos! I love going down to Burnham/Berrow/Brean, the beach is about five miles long, and once you get away from the hotspots near the actual beach access, there are very long stretches with barely a soul on them. Pendine is another, around six miles of sand which hardly anyone ventures onto, other then the half-mile or so at the access point. A bit too far for a one-day trip for me, though.
I'll probably drive down to Burnham this week, though.
@Drac
West Wittering beach is privately owned . Its also one of the longest stretches of sand with a gently shelving beach on the south coast .
It gets thousands of people on hot sunny days all happy to pay( I think) £10 to park . It closes ( well the car park does ) at 8pm.
Pay to park and use a beach?
Where is this foreign land?
The NIMBY's Republic of West Sussex.
I can't stand beaches they bore me to tears. I just don't get it at all. Horrible places.
I assume everyone is aware that on those 'crowded beaches' shots, they use really long lenses to foreshorten everything to make it appear like people will be elbowing the person next to them when they apply sunscreen.
Even still there's a world of difference between those beaches and the ones I'm use to.
Ah, looked rather like the beach opposite the Ship at Low Newton.
Even still there's a world of difference between those beaches and the ones I'm use to.
I'm sure there is, but, as the press like to do, the reality isn't the same as they paint it.
as the press like to do, the reality isn't the same as they paint it
What the media mislead? 😯
Ah, looked rather like the beach opposite the Ship at Low Newton.
That's a few mile up the coast.
Even still there's a world of difference between those beaches and the ones I'm use to.
About 10 degrees and a huge ball of fire in the sky? 😉
Dodged the Bournemouth bullet yesterday - there are some nice beaches nearby which are nowhere near as busy. I was still proposing a detour to the New Forest as an alternative but my Wife wouldn't have it. I'm with Bill Hicks - the beach is where dirt meets water.
Berrow and Brean beach is good for flying big kites: Soft landings. I like road cycling through the empty green hedged singletrack roads of Somerset. To the flaky cafe at Brean for toasties. I like the fort on Brean Down; Martyn Ashton should shoot a bike trials video there.
But mostly when the weather is this fine, I head to the hills.
About 10 degrees and a huge ball of fire in the sky?
Yup we have that too.
That's a few mile up the coast.
Damned nice coast it is too, apart from Seahouses. Which is an armpit of a place. 😉
Yup mini Blackpool is a horrible blot it's only the few hundred yards in the town centre. A real shame but it brings money to the area so shouldn't complain.
Flip flops, check
Buck fast, check
Sun cream, nae chance
Pocket knife, checkOr you could do as our locals do:
http://www.westfm.co.uk/news/local/police-reassure-people-after-ayr-beach-riot/
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Cheesy, where are you then? I'm in prestwick, couldn't imagine a worse place to been a hot day than Ayr beach! Weegie grand central.
Pictonroad - if that's Wells beach, that's where I spent my childhood too. If it was hot and busy the vast majority of folk would plonk themselves down in front of the steps over from the car park. There are five miles of beach running west from there. We used to go in a boat over to the East Hills or to 'the boiler' up the creek. On a day like today the shallow water up there would be pleasantly tepid (although tepid doesn't actually sound pleasant).
Walked around loch morlich this morning then sat and had a brew on the beach. Was brilliant. No crowds, idiots or traffic jams.
Now in hamble looking across southampton water at an oil refinery. Boooooo.
I'm a local to West Wittering.
We cycle to some local spots that are empty in comparison to that beach.
Love it when the angry folk leave us alone after their day trip to the coast... Then get back in their cars with their city attitudes.
Machir Bay, Islay, last Sunday...
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Loch Gruinart, Islay, last Monday...
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Claggan Bay, Islay, last wednesday...
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You really need to pick your beaches! & You can bloody keep Cornwall, rammed with sodding families & kids. Nasty.
There's a wonderful beach, just south of Bridgend, that's about a 20min walk from the closest car park, with a camp site and fantastic pub close(ish) by to said car park. Oh and then there's a 15 minute walk across the stones to get to the sand.
We went down Friday to Sunday and while it wan't totally deserted, I think everybody had about 3 acres to themselves. Weather perfect, just an interesting bit of surf, absolute bloody paradise.
We lit a fire and cooked some sausages too.
I live between 2 or more beaches on the wirral peninsular so surrounded by sand, and as soon as the warm weather comes, loads of people turn up and just sit in their cars with the window open, radios on and read the papers or just ignore the other pasenger.
Strange.
Sadly tonight riding along the prom, loads of police there has been a murder, and a few miles along the same route, somebody has been found stabbed.
I'm just back from paddle boarding at my local beach and its still full from last Saturday 😆
I live 5 min's from a beach. To be frank, on sunny days hundreds of people from outside our little town, come, use the beach, drink, act pretty badly, making it unsuitable for me to take my son, leave massive amounts of litter, then go home.
It's all a matter of perspective surely..
I also live 5 minutes from the beach.. quite often on sunny days it's thousands that descend on us, boosting the local economy, creating a vibrant atmosphere, helping the town to water down it's angry insular inbred population (jus' sayin' don't take it personally 😉 ) they have fun, enjoy the pubs.. me and my kids will go to a quieter spot if it's heaving, cos we're locals innums, and know where to head when it's busy.. 8)
I genuinely like a beach........ on a cold sunny winters day.
I genuinely like a beach........ on a cold sunny winters day
Full of dogs?!
We spent a new year at West Wittering. You couldn't move without someone watching you. Every bit of grass verge was owned by this set of nimbys or some other competing bunch of express readers.
Horrible ,horrible place.
Ps shit beach as well.
Esselgruntfuttock, your Scottish island beaches look lovely, but they are missing 3 ingredients crucial for the perfect beach photo:
1) An azure blue sea, topped with rolling white surf.
2) A wide expanse of golden sand.
3) Admiral Ackbar, buried up to his neck.
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Burnham beach today:
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The crowds of sun-worshipers:
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The crowded end at Brean, my car's eleven along from the near end, next to the silver MPV: 😉
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Where the **** are your Star Wars characters though? No way are you passing that red and white thing off as an AT-AT, either 🙄
It's a Victorian AT-AT...
Everybody else is waiting for the kids school break, except Akbar, his are taking a year to go travelling... 😉
God there's some grumpy people about. The complainers remind me of the type of people who move to the countryside then complain about being woken at 5am by the cockerel crowing.
It's the beach. People like beaches and will visit them when the weather is good. We're British. Is what we do.
Get over it! 🙂
I'm with PP. My parents live in France and when they had their house built, they intentionally picked somewhere that wasn't close to the beach to avoid the insane busy-ness in summer and the total death of the places in winter.
Got to say one thing about SatNav; it's removed the ability for the average person to use a map. This means usually that although the obvious/shortest route is usually rammed, often the back roads are quite clear.
Always go at dawn or in evening as loads quieter in the water for surfing (so I don't get in anyones way)
Also being a bit gingerish middle of the day is a bit of a no no if I don't want to loose all my skin. 😉
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Sunset over a very crowded beach last Wednesday - we were about the only people on it.
God there's some grumpy people about. The complainers remind me of the type of people who move to the countryside then complain about being woken at 5am by the cockerel crowing.
It's the beach. People like beaches and will visit them when the weather is good. We're British. Is what we do.
Get over it!
Complaining about the complainers, I see what you did there 😀
...how can this be enjoyable!
You mean posting on STW just to moan about other people having fun? Yeah, I've no idea how that can be fun either.
You really need to pick your beaches!
Ok so I'll just drive 10 hours up to Scotland for a quick day out 🙄
So, anyone got any suggestions for the quietest nice beach within striking distance of Cardiff? I've lived here for ages but I've never before felt the need to head for a beach in a rare spell of hot weather with millions of others. The Gower is likely to be rammed.. Maybe Pendine as mentioned above?
Those lovely expanses of deserted sand are all well and good, but after you've let your dog curl one off on the sand, where do you go for a WKD Blue? Eh?
On Sunday I rode 10 miles on my cross bike to the beach, swam in the sea, chilled on the pebbles looked at the bikinis. Rode back home.
Was lovely. Not crowded at all.
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Bloke I work with did that event too 🙂
striking distance of Cardiff?
Last time I went to Pembrey Sands near Burry Port was during good summer weather and was reasonably quiet.
WFH again so I'm off to the beach..
Ta ta.
😆
Heading to the Purbecks for a ride tonight.
Depressed at the prospect of the traffic 🙁
I live on the South Coast and I hate the beach in the UK.
Abroad, **** yeah.
In the UK I can't stand the sea of tribal tattoos and tales of last nights shag, the stench of suncream on middle aged women juggling the coolbox and nappies, and the inevitable "older couple" who are both showing off far more than i'm sure is legal.
You'll find me in the forest.
In the UK I can't stand
Not all beaches are like that though. As shown above, there are tons that are empty.