Winter beach ideas please!
We're starting our fulltiming adventure late Jan/early Feb and are planning to head down to the Pensacola and Gulf Shores areas for about 6 weeks. I'm assuming it'll be too cold to swim, so other than...
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Chock Full o' Nuts wrote:
I used to live in Pensacola. I would take my DS-then 3 to the beach during the day. We'd bundle up and make castles and draw in the sand. There's not very good shelling there, but you might find some clam shells there.
And don't rule out wading. When my kids were 6-12 they loved to go to the beach, it didn't matter what time of year. They'd run down to the water and splash around as long as they could stand it. Even when their lips turned blue and they were shivering uncontrollably they would swear the water wasn't really cold, LOL. Needless to say, I didn't go along with that. Time to head inside for a warm bath and some hot chocolate.
X2. I live in the NW where the water is always freezing at the coast. My kids, age 7, love running to the water, freeze their feet and run back out. Kids can always find something to explore at the beach and easiest of all is to take a walk and search for shells, crabs, treasure, etc.
