There is no such thing as a mosquito-free beach.
Regards,
Lived in Florida my whole damn life (except for 3 months in Atlanta).
Hmm.
My FL experience is only the last ~15 years in pretty much only Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.
No skeeters yet. That whole region was DDTed to eternal toxicity back in the 1930s - 1940s when the ICW was being built.
The beach by my house on the western shore of Lake Michigan is where we go to to get away from mosquitos. They don’t like the cooler air there.
The beach on Topsail Island is mosquito-free. It’s too windy.
I recall reading for the 2017 solar eclipse NOAA received phone calls demanding it be scheduled for the evening so families could enjoy it together.
Interesting. My wife got chewed up at the beach at Las Olas. But she is a natural mosquito magnet.
That’s not a beach. It’s a lake shore. I’ve also heard that the skeeters up that way carry off small dogs and children to eat them later.
Okay, this one I will grant. Although the last time I stayed there, the sand gnats were so bad, I think I’d rather have fought off the mosquitos.
LOL LOL
My beach
Finer sand you won’t find on most ocean shores.
I did actually forget a smiley on that one…
Looks a lot like the sugar sand like we have on the Redneck Riviera. Caused by the fact that the sand there is primarily quartz washed down from the Appalachians.
Water. Sand. Yup, I’m calling that a beach. And isn’t it on a great lake?
Although, ocean beaches are typically much wider than Great Lakes beaches, at least at most tides.
Well, a pretty good lake… how far north was that pic taken? I’d assume the farther north, the fewer skeeters.
(We love going up near Oostburg, like Kohler/Andre State Park… wide beaches and good dunes up there).
But if you want sand dunes, the eastern shore of Lake Michigan gets a lot more sand, including some monster dunes.
A few miles south of Kohler Andrae, a few miles north of Harrington Beach. And mosquitos are pure misery for us at times when off the beach and up into the dune grass. But close to the water seems to offer protection.
I’ve walked down Sleeping Bear dune on the eastern shore in MI. Then hiked south out of the park. The walk back up was too tedious. But the view from above and below was amazing.
Another view of my beach is below
See ya at Judi’s some day!
“Update: I would not have embarked on this powerscaling venture if I’d known how thoroughly Mark Twain was going to roast me.”
Looks like somebody saw The Odyssey over the weekend.
The Odyssey, William Tell, and The Death of Robin Hood.
With a nod to “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” in the alt-text.
Late post, but we Michiganders know our beaches compare favorably with any in Hawaii, Florida, the Amalfi coast or anywhere else. And we are perfectly happy that nobody else realizes this and we have them to ourselves.
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… for the 3 weeks in summer when the ice sheets have retreated enough to see the sand.
Conversely, here in SoFL we have 50 weeks a year of swimsuit weather & two weeks of long pants & sweatshirt weather. So our beach sand is always visible and almost always useable.
yeah, next to all the salty water! I didn’t know not to open my eyes under water in the ocean my first time I visited it, age 4. I screamed bloody murder.