I love the beach and everything about it. I don't like crowds so I pick beaches that have no people on them to speak of. We were on a gorgeous white sand beach on the weekend of Independence Day and the traffic jam at the stop sign for the main intersection was four cars deep and took 45 extra seconds to navigate. We caught three redfish and 10 whiting in the surf. On a 400 yard stretch of beach, there were five people other than us. We did have three drunk twentysomethings in skimpy bikinis walk by griping about no one being on "that crappy beach" and planning their next trip to PCB so they could "get more action". Mrs. Geno laughed, I pointed out the one with butt dimples was kind of cute, Mrs. Geno's neighbor who went with us just stared at us with his mouth open. We were seventy yards from the truck, had a few sections of 1.5" pvc driven into the sand - one for the massive umbrella and two for fishing poles. We hid under the umbrella, sipped adult beverages and had a nice picnic during the heat of the day and we played in the water and collected shells and sand dollars early and late when the sun had no real power. We set the rod holders where I could go out in the sun and cast and then come back under the umbrella to watch the rod tips. As the sun winked out, I could hear something crashing bait 50 yards or so out and I cast a skitterwalk out in that direction. Whatever it was spooled me in about 30 seconds and I had to clamp down on the spool to make the line break. Some of the folks on that beach had caught tarpon in the 100lb range the day before.

We were at a different beach yesterday afternoon where we found a couple dozen horshoe crabs, a bazzillion hermit crabs, a few shells and a bunch of specks. There were about ten people there when we arrived and about half that when we left.

Are you Kenny Chesney? You pretty much lived the song "Anything but mine," and you're from Cleveland.

I'm here and I'm going to try to enjoy myself but I'd rather come fall or spring.
It's too damn crowded, too damn hot and too damn expensive.
Wife dragged me to Walmarks for provisions. That place looked like a damn storm was coming. They were out of sliced cheese and a lot of stuff picked over.
I'd just as soon take my week in October and spend it fishing or bowhunting at the house.

Please do everybody a favor when you return home and spread the word. It's terrible down here.

Please build my house back when you do!

You should have seen it when I was a kid living there in the seventies. We lived at the corner of 30A and 98 in Inlet Beach and there was nothing much from one end to the other. I remember the day that Seaside was first started being developed. I couldn't at that time understand why anyone wanted to be way out here. From 1970 to 2006 when we sold out and today I still can't believe how much that area has grown. My daddy always knew it was going to happen so we bought would could back then anticipating a nice return someday.

People that don't want a crowd you need to look at Mexico Beach I haven't been in a long time but last time it was real quiet, Port St. Joe, ...

Those areas are a dump. I would advise anyone to stay the hell away from there.

This ^^