I love visiting beaches in the off-season, after the hordes of tourists are long-gone and you can have the whole wide expanse of sand and surf to yourself. This probably stems from growing up in the (exceedingly beautiful) beach town of East Lyme, Connecticut, (photo above), where summers meant the streets, shops, restaurants, and beaches were filled with out-of-town guests (we called them "summer people"), and fall meant a return to "normal." Life in balance again.
Our children are remarkably peaceful when they're at play on a quiet beach. Recently, we were in Newport, Rhode Island, and they enjoyed exploring the little tidepools among the rocks, sharing their discoveries with each other.
The only other visitors were seagulls.
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