On Mondays and Wednesdays, our car is not reguired for family-affairs so those are possible days for the beach. I check three weather sites to see if one of those days is suitable for sunning the buns. After breakfast on a beach day, I pack my backpack with my beach gear, large towel, a bag with 20 to 30 thongs and strings, a camera, a tripod, cell phone, some food and a thermos with water, a cap and sunglasses and my pass for Sandy Hook. I have a checklist because I'm old and I don't want to forget things.
Living in Allentown, PA, my nearest (and dearest) beach is Sandy Hook, NJ. It is a little over a 100 mile and depending on the traffic, it takes me between 1.5 to 2 hours to get at the gate of State Park Sandy Hook. Being retired and not very active at mornings, I leave the house between 8:00 and 9:00. Sandy Hook is a long stretch of sand, pointing at New York. You get a good idea with Google Earthview. There are beaches at the bay-side and at the ocean-side. Halfway at the ocean-side is Gunnison beach, a nude beach. I go there in the beginning of the season to get my all-over base tan. With changing suits, I don't develop much of a tanline.
I prefer quiet beaches so I go to the North beach or to the North tip. I have to walk about 20 minutes through soft sand to get to the beach. I prefer the part at the bay but in the summer the flies are very aggressive so sometimes I go to the official North beach, ocean-side. At the bay-side the beach is very small, about 50 ft at low tide and 10 ft at high tide. I found a spot that was flat and out of reach of normal tide and that is my spot to go. From there I do my beachwalks of about 2 mile. Because of the soft sand, it is quite tiring.
Most of the time some people show up, dogwalkers, fishermen of just beachwalkers. When I pass them in my thongs or strings, we say hello. I have not yet met any negativity, in looks or words. Last week, a speedboat was along the shoreline and the people onboard could not push the boat into sea. I offered my help and the three of us could just push the boat off. I had a small G-string on but the couple was very thankfull and only the woman seemed a little reserved.
When I go to the official North Beach, I wear my larger thongs because I don't want trouble with families with kids. Parents can be quite hysteric about visible behinds.
Between 16:00 and 18:00, depending on the length of the day, I break up and go home. At the first gasstation, I get gas (cheaper than in PA) and two large sodas. They are finished before I hit the highway after 15 mile.
