What is Your Favorite Beach?

[mike renfro]

Does that include Impanema? The photos of Rio seem to indicate otherwise.

[George P.]

My favorite beach is on a tiny place I believe is called Green Island, in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). It is so beautiful it's practically a caricature. But it's too small for a run, alas.

Our family's beach vacations have mostly been at North Carolina's Outer Banks -- Duck, and Sanderling. I've tried several times to take "long" (4-6 mile) barefoot runs on the beach there, but my feet always get carved up by the sand. I've had better luck running (with shoes) along the shoulders of Highway 12 -- it's flat and fast, depending on the weather. This road runs north and south along the barrier islands.

[MJD]

This one is pretty remote:

http://www.greenhorsesociety.com/

[KDFINE]

Unfortunately today you have to be on the alert from the stray pitbulls, but growing up in the Rockaways (Queens, N.Y.C.) gave the choice of running the beaches and scrambling over the jetties, or running up and back on a 5+ mile long wooden boardwalk, the boardwalk being the most forgiving surface I've ever been on.

[mrbowie]

Leo Carillo

[KDFINE]

O.K. Duncan Rinaldo, I don't understand Leo Carillo. Please enlighten?

[George P.]

Leo Carillo was a character actor (perhaps that's too grand a term) who played in TV westerns in the 1950s. Then again, there are probably a good many Leo Carillos out there.

[Rufus Cookie]

North Qld, where the rainforest meets the ocean.
-Australia
http://www.pasiva.de/Boris/images/Daintree/4mile.jpg

Fraser Island - Australia
http://www.virtualaustralia.com/photos/coast/027e.jpg

[KDFINE]

Yes, of course I know that Leo Carillo was the character actor best known for playing playing the sidekick Pancho to Duncan Rinaldo's Cisco Kid, I just need enlightenment as to why Leo Carillo is the answer to a favorite beach?

[26mi235]

Leo Carillo is the name of a State Beach in southern California. It was one of our favorites when I was a kid, but there were so many different beaches available that I cannot sort them all out many years later.

[KDFINE]

This easterner thanks you for the answer, Now you have me wondering. Was Leo Carillo the actor's stage name? Did he take it from the beach? Vice versa?

[GotdaBends]

Stinson Beach, Marin County, California

[MJD]

>>Sevem Mile Beach on Grand Cayman.... and I'll BE THERE FOR SEVEN DAYS
>from
>10/2-10/9.


>You're playing with fire with the hurricane season this time of year.

Cross your fingers steve. I just sent them an 1100US deposit but I'm going later. Last big hurricane to hit them completely destroyed the turtle farm.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MI ... 1448.shtml?

edit-yikes!

http://www.caymannetnews.com/

[EPelle]

Cayman Islands suffer 'catastrophic damage' -- MJD, do you have a "Plan-B"?

[MJD]

>Cayman Islands suffer 'catastrophic damage' -- MJD, do you have a "Plan-B"?

Don't really care-more concerned about the people and their homes. Years ago, almost EVERYONE was killed on one of the sister islands during a hurricane.

[EPelle]

I didn:t mean to take away from the human side of the story. The damage is horrendous, and I understand that all communication to the islands has been lost. I hope and trust that there is a sufficient emergency infrastructure in place to keep order, help the ailing, and protect the islands from any further damage.

[MJD]

Suits will weigh in here. These are the symbols for the two primary infrastructure companies-power and water.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CWCO&d=t

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CUPu.TO&d=t

[EPelle]

Both down on the index today.

[MJD]

None of this stuff is in the news yet that I can see but it is pretty horrible:

"...and pretty much the
entire island is underwater..."


http://www.stormcarib.com/reports/2004/cayman.shtml

[EPelle]

MJD - I appreciate the link. I will have the residents in my thoughts and prayers.

[dukehjsteve]

>>Sevem Mile Beach on Grand Cayman.... and I'll BE THERE FOR SEVEN DAYS
>from
>10/2-10/9.


No kidding. I go there every November for a week.
>Apparently, last year I just missed MJ and TM by a few days at the fitness club
>about a block off that road that I go to to work out at after my run every
>morning. You're playing with fire with the hurricane season this time of year.
>Place cracks me up. They close the schools if they get a hard rain.


Thanks a lot for your help MJD, my trip just got CANCELLED because of that stupid hurricane, and it is ALL YOUR FAULT !!!!

[buckeye II]

Woodford Bay. Island of Dominica. Carribean.

Much the same description as BCBaroo. Most of the island is a rainforest for some fantastic running & hiking. Dominica sprots waterfalls for lounging with varying water temps from cool to warm due to a boiling lake in the peaks in the center of the small island. Wonderful people. They have had a few notable tracksters as well.

[Halfmiler2]

Anywhere that they don't allow Beach Volleyball.

[Marquis]

One of the Hotels on the Cayman's 7 Mile Beach was reportedly quite badly damaged in news reports on Monday. Don;t know about the rest though.

[MJD]

The entire island is a mess.

[gh]

I guess my new answer is the one that I'm at now. I could tell you where it was but then I'd have to kill you. This also serves as the new answer for the thread about "best hotel ever."

Mahalo!

[EPelle]

[start]

In Hawaiian thinking, words have mana [pronounced: mah' nah], meaning spiritual or divine power], and aloha and mahalo are among the most sacred and powerful.

Say them often as they can be life-transforming and -enhancing. Be careful to use them ONLY if you truly feel mahalo or aloha within. Do not exploit these words for personal gain, and neither cheapen, nor trivialize their use by verbalizing them carelessly or without sincerity.

Aloha and mahalo are ineffable, indescribable, and undefinable with words alone; to be understood, they must be experienced. >>

http://www.geocities.com/~olelo/sheltie ... aloha.html

Learned something new today.

[tafnut]

>>mahalo

means much the same as what good-bye originately meant: God be with you here and forever

[marathonman]

Before it was overpopulated, really liked Madeira Beach and the other beaches of Pinellas County in FL. Also really like the east coast south of Daytona Beach, but unfortunately have never been to the beaches of the FL panhandle. Can't forget the beaches of Sarasota/Bradenton.

[MJD]

gh seems to take a lot of nice trips.

[Silent Running]

There's a Marriott property above the Crystal Cove State park in Newport ,California. A five minute jog to the park and you have your choice of miles of gently sloping sandy beach to run along, sandwhiched between Laguna (sp) and Newport, or the paved pathways that meander through the natural habitat of the upper foreshore.
The washroom with outdoor showers and water every couple of miles adds a nice touch on those hot California afternoons. Being from up North, it's always funny to see the locals out in their tights and long sleeve tech' gear when it falls below 70 F.
Nice views, great off-shore breezes and you simply cannot beat the eye candy

[EPelle]

I have SLO beaches high up on my list. Pismo, Avila and Shell Beach are simple, small-city CA beach areas. Good surfing... great summer weather (+30C)... one can fish from the piers... ride horseback on the beach (Pismo)... Pismo has a spectacular Monarch Butterfly Grove (apparently one of the best in your country)... Pismo has a great restaurant called Splash Cafe which serves excellent clam chowder in Sourdough bread bowls. Pismo even has Hummer Dune tours.

Morro Bay is just a 40-minute drive from Pismo, and has terrific sea-side shopping and restaurants. Morro Bay is as famous for Morro Rock as it is its beaches. Peregrine falcons have a refuge on the rock. What I enjoy about Morro Bay: Cayaking; cliffed shorelines.

Sycamore Mineral Springs right around the corner at Avila Beach in SLO. Hearst Castle just up Highway 1 to the north, and Solvang (as Danish as one can get outside of Denmark) 40m down south. Santa Barbara is about a 75-minute drive down the coast.

One of the best scenic routes is the 7-mile drive to Montaña de Oro (unpopulated, sandy beaches, and 7,828 acres of hills).

San Francisco 4 hours north; Santa Monica 3 hours south.

[gh]

>gh seems to take a lot of nice trips.>>

Going to interesting places and having nice trips are often mutually exclusive, unfortunately. In Athens I never even came within spitting distance of the Parthenon. This last 10 days, however..... ahhhhh. But then, since it was my first vacation not attached to a track meet--and I shit you not--since 1978(!) I felt like I was owed one. Half the readers of this board probably weren't even born then.

[kuha]

Since 1978?!? Wow! You need to have a serious talk with those slave-driving bosses of yours!

[MJD]

>Since 1978?!? Wow! You need to have a serious talk with those slave-driving
>bosses of yours!

He probably has that chat on a regular basis.