[Tracy210]

Ha! I Do a ton of cleaning up and almost always (98% of the time) do I bring anything but glass -but my avi- someone passed me a corona and I thought the pic was cool
Bottle went str8 into my trash bag afterwards....


thanks for the concern tho!! I know, no glass on the beach

[David]

No glass on beach--against the law--but---common sense says so --should not have to be a law!!!! Absolutely NO glass on beach!!!!! Can I make this more clear? NO D--- GLASS ON BEACH!!!

Yet, I picked up glass beer bottles from the beach on Sunday. Nothing ticks me off more than that except, maybe, broken glass beer bottles on the beach.
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[Tracy210]

Thanks for the scolding I got it, really!

[David]

Wasn't meaning to scold. The question asked just opened up a wound that will never heal concerning glass on the beach, any time, any beach.

It is just not smart. Once the glass is accidently broken, which can happen no matter how careful we are, it is too late to worry about the lost shards in the sand that may lay in wait for some time before sending some little kid (or adult) to the hospital, possibly crippling them for life.
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[Tracy210]

Right! Been there, owch!

[dlhamann]

Yikes...I'm scared to even post here...like a fly about to be swatted...but I'm just a voice from "the other side". My family lived near Navarre from 1981-1984. We used to stay at the old Holiday Inn at least one weekend per month. We adore Navarre Beach...adore it! We moved back to Texas in '84 but have been back to Navarre almost every year since then.

Then in the early '90's our family began staying at Navarre Towers, and now we continue to stay at either Navarre Towers or Belle Mer. As my parents began getting older, they started burning easier and getting overheated easier, so they purchased a cover. The first 2 years we used it, we took it down every single night, but it proved too difficult. The thing was HARD to set up (This was not the typical easy-set covers of today)...took 4 people to set it up. But we did, and we got in trouble for bringing it in the condo...the owners did not want sandy tent covers in there, OR beach chairs.

So, for another year or two, we'd store our chairs and cover under the pier, until the condos outlawed that, too. Around that same time, the newer covers came out and we began to use those. We'd always set it up far away from the shoreline, away from the umbrella sales guy's territory. Our entire family (actually 2 families...my parents and my husband and 3 kids) used it all day, every day for the entire week, only coming in for lunch. ANd at night, we'd take the cover down, lower the frame and fold up the chairs with the cover underneath and take everything else up (beach bags, coolers, kids sand toys). Then on the night before we leave, we take the tent frame down, rinse all our chairs out...and this takes at least an hour to get all the sand out...let everything dry for an hour somewhere outside, then load it into our cars. So the sandy stuff never goes into the condo and upsets the condo owner. I've only seen a tent permanently abandoned once, and the tents don't usually seem as numerous at Belle Mer and NT as they do down at the Pearl and friends.

Yes, there are more tents than there were 10 years ago...I can vouch for that...but I think reasons why include 1. skin cancer 2. more families travel with multiple families like we do and feel that one tent cover takes up less space than, say, 12 large beach umbrellas? and 3. the cost to rent chairs/umbrellas is just too high for some, like us.

We've always been responsible cover-ers. We've ALWAYS picked up our trash, and sometimes picked up others' trash!! We've always set up our tent far enough back so that everyone can enjoy the beach itself down by the water. We never leave our cover unattended all day..we only go upstairs to eat lunch. We don't blare loud music. My parents continue to get older, and they won't be able to put up/take down, rinse AND dry the chairs every single day, twice a day. I have small children to attend to, so that only leaves my husband. Then there's the issue of where to put the stuff? Again, the condo owners will not allow it in the walkways, out by the pool, under the boardwalk or inside the condo. You can't put wet tents and chairs in vehicles, and it takes time for them to dry. SO...my question is...now that this new law is here, will the condos provide a place where we can keep our so called 'crap'??? Yes, the owners have a permanent storage unit in the parking garage, but they are not accessible to vacation renters.

You residents have the luxury of seeing your beautiful beach every day, so you can take it little bits at a time and probably don't need more than a chair or an umbrella. But those of us who only get to enjoy the beach one week a year want to spend all the time we can ON the beach, meaning all day, and that requires some kind of cover. So sure, we will probably spend an hour each morning and an hour each night putting up and taking down our cover..though I have no idea WHERE we will put it....but we may have have to consider another beach.

I guess I'd better fly away now before the bug spray comes out.

[asilloghome]

On our last visit we went to Seaside for the day and really enjoyed sitting inside a very large structure on the beach - it was a nice place to take a chair and sit in the shade and watch the waves- why can't Navarre Beach condo owners construct some of these along their walkways so people have a shaded place to sit instead of taking their tents?

Here is a picture of some of those structures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ugardener/4514331342/

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