tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614053223603560475.post6968770442171322936..comments2024-02-26T18:04:01.857-05:00Comments on 2 Live Freely: Photo-of-the-Week #137 - The Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California, May 2009Ed Helveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11995821240780553373noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614053223603560475.post-58616984424707334742013-12-15T14:24:18.978-05:002013-12-15T14:24:18.978-05:00I appreciate your suggestion. I've actually sp...I appreciate your suggestion. I've actually spent a fair amount of time on the Outer Banks of NC. I have a friend who has a timeshare beach house between the sound and the ocean - both can be seen from the upper deck of his house that is located in the town of Duck. He has allowed me to use it for a week at a time several times over the past several years. I like the Outer Banks. I've been to where the road ends at the north end of the island chain, I still have to explore all the way to the southern most end. I've also been to Chincoteague Island on the Virginia coast (Del Marva Peninsula - I like it there a lot, too. Actually, I've been to and am familiar with many of the eastern coastal beach areas all the wayfrom NJ down to Key West, the Gulf Coast of FL and Padre Island in TX. The east coast and the Gulf Coast beach areas are probably a bit easier to get access to than the west coast beaches, but I haven't really explored as much of the western beaches, so I may be wrong. The challenge, of course, is that there is only a limited amount of coast line. Ed Helveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11995821240780553373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614053223603560475.post-19168223033643826282013-12-15T13:31:54.069-05:002013-12-15T13:31:54.069-05:00I have only driven by, but the Grand Banks of Nort...I have only driven by, but the Grand Banks of North Carolina may be what you are looking for at the time I was there you could get pretty close to the ocean.jonthebruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269783679431506513noreply@blogger.com