Favorite Place

Olivia Nyhammer

Mrs.Young

Sep.22, 2014

English 1100

Favorite place

Being a summer baby and living right down the street from Sea Side Boardwalk it was inevitable I would be a water bug. My favorite place in the whole entire world is beach thirteen in Island Beach State Park, New Jersey. It is six dollars per car and you drive down a long road until you reach your desired beach. After parking you unpack the car and begin the journey through the wilderness. Past beach 2 there are no life guards and you have to walk through, what I call the jungle, to get to the beach. The jungle is a long sand path with flowering plants and small trees along the sides. Walking through you can hear crickets chirping, birds flying from tree and tree, and occasionally a little chipmunk scurry by. Once you pass the small bridge that gets a huge puddle in front of it when it rains you know your almost there just one more hill to go. The sand begins to get warmer past this point so you take off your flip flops and enjoy the sand between your toes for a second as you catch your breath since you had to carry a huge beach bag and chair through the trail. You see the crystal blue waters peaking from around the sand hill so you take a deep breathe in smelling the oceans salty aroma. The beach is yours. 

There’s not a soul in sight besides a few fisherman to your far right with just two poles in the water because they never seem to catch anything, I think they just enjoy the view. You put your bag down and immediately go up to feel the temperature of the water; it’s a perfect 74 degrees. You run back up and set up shop, giggling with friends about last night’s festivities as you rub tanning oil all over your body preparing to soak up the roaring summer sun. Eventually you get too hot so you run up to the shoreline and the water kiss your toes sending shivers all the way up your spine. I love to ride the waves even when they are crazy because it’s funny when your friends fall or get tumbled over. Beach thirteen is the most serene, relaxing place in my world and it represents my home.