I love exploring local beaches, and forest preserves..I wish everyday was nice enough(and not filled with work..uhhg) to just go out on an adventure.
what's one of the best places you have explored?

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my friend and I climbing from the beach out to the lake

It's great fun cruising around on a sailboat, finding good anchorages and snorkeling or taking the dinghy up to the local beaches. I've done this all my life in Florida, Belize, St. Lucia, Abaco Islands of the Bahamas and the BVIs. The yachty bum lifestyle is great. My parents actually sailed over to the States from Australia on a 36' steel ketch taking route through the Indian Ocean, around South Africa and across the Atlantic. They have many pictures of their encounters with local "tribes" that have never seen white people before and took it as somewhat of a big deal -apparently they were very friendly. This was back in the early to mid 80's and the trip took them 2 years at sea. Now I'm in college and hoping to complete to journey with my dad through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific back to Oz on the same boat. They only didn't complete it because my sister and I were born here in America and they decided to stay.

Sorry for the life story, beaches are a thrill a minute though.

that's actually very interesting, I've never been sailing (only whitewater rafting and canoeing) I would love to just get to laze around and cruise on vast bodies of water. That's my idea of relaxing fun.

If thats you in the red, i wouldn't mind exporing your body

Well, that was going to happen at some point...hehe.

Anyways, we have friends who live on a little inlet up in maine that's awesome to kayak around. Personally my favorite part of exploring the coast is finding animals, and up there it's awesome. I kayaked to the part where the land pinches the water off to about 20' wide and the rocks make little rapids everytime the tide turns, it was awesome. Lifting up some of those rocks at low tide looked like a coral reef, with green and red crabs all over the place, tons of anenomes, and about a billion different colors of sponges. It's weird to see that in maine of all places, where the water's like 60 degrees. Even starfish.

The nearest beach around me is 8-10 hours away from me.

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well that makes me feel weird...haha, Yes that's me in the red,the other girl is my friend jessie, she's my adventure partner, thanks for being a creep..haha

I will say that the midwest can be interesting if you know the right places to explore, but there are so many other states and countries I hope I will be able to see in my life. This upcoming summer I plan to save all my money for gas so I can drive to surrounding states and see what they have to offer.

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Ahem, back on topic..

Here are some pictures of a beach in Australia

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/9466/beach1bj6.jpg
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/728/beach2sf2.jpg

Overlooking the whole deal

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/9702/beach3wy6.jpg
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/9280/beach4pm7.jpg

Some pictures of preserves around where I live

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/996/preserve1ow0.jpg
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/2199/preserve2wv9.jpg
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/2665/preserve3uy5.jpg
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/5669/004gv6.jpg
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/6911/006dw3.jpg

Most recent picture of a local beach during a tropical depression a few days ago

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/6937/beach5cf8.jpg

Sailing in Belize last summer

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6464/belize1yi9.jpg
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/6544/belize5gx9.jpg
http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/1972/belize2is1.jpg

I caught a lot of little tunas but that dolphin fish broke free just after these pictures were taken

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/9519/belize3zr5.jpg
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/561/dolphinfishpg1.jpg

Finally this is my boat.

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9036/005xa8.jpg

It's no 36' steel ketch or a 46' catamaran but she's good for coastal sailing and weekends on the bay. I hope to sail her across the Gulf of Mexico this summer to Cancun just to see what's up.

I too want to see some pictures, guys. Post your adventures.

those are amazing pictures, I'm completely jealous, and itching for a road trip to someplace relaxing.
the only place i'd love to be right now is finding a new path in a forest preserve and follow it until my face is reddened with sunshine....
which is highly unlikely since it's supposed to be severe weather all night tonight.
but I guess thunderstorms can be pretty.
except I'm not in the mood to be inside....