Surfer Dude: Hands Down the Best Beach Toy for Kids (And Grown-Ups, Too!) Recently, I was at the beach with my family. My son just loves the beach – it’s his favorite place to be. He loves digging in the sand with his… Johnny Jet , June 20, 2023
These Quick-Dry Beach and Pool Towels Are a Summertime Essential My sister from Toronto came to visit us in California recently and we spent a fair bit of time at the beach, relaxing and watching the cousins play together. When… Natalie DiScala , May 28, 2023
The 10 Deadliest Beaches in the USA for Shark Attacks Every summer, I joke to my friends that I should sue Steven Spielberg because when I was young, I made the terrible mistake of watching the movie Jaws and it… Johnny Jet , February 7, 2023
The PeaPod Prestige Travel Bed Makes Life Easier For Parents Living near the beach is really wonderful, especially when you’ve got little ones. It’s the perfect playground, where they can run to their heart’s content, dig, discover and build, all… Natalie DiScala , July 30, 2021
The Ballast Beach Pillow Is The Beach Accessory You Never Knew You Needed This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. For an explanation of our… Natalie DiScala , July 30, 2021
What’s It Like To Travel and Live in Anguilla When people ask me where the most beautiful beaches in the world are, I give them three answers: Whitehaven Beach in Australia, Florida’s west coast and the island of Anguilla…. Johnny Jet , February 27, 2021
How to Find Out the Tide Schedule at the Beach There’s finally been some good news concerning COVID-19: Cases are drastically going down and the vaccines are working, though of course there’s still concern about different mutations like the one… Johnny Jet , February 26, 2021
Travel Hack: Never Get Your Valuables Stolen On The Beach This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. For an explanation of our… Johnny Jet , January 16, 2021
Reader Travel Tip: A Cheap Way To Remove Tar From Your Feet Each Friday, we try to feature a reader-inspired tip as our Travel Tip of the Day. This week’s tip comes from three readers, who left the comments below on my… Johnny Jet , September 10, 2020
Two Ways to Remove Beach Tar From Your Feet I’m not sure if this is just a Southern California problem or not but oftentimes, when we go to the beach, we find patches of tar in the sand that… Johnny Jet , September 3, 2020
This Collapsible Beach Bucket Is Easy to Travel With We just returned from Hawaii, and while we were at the Four Seasons Lanai, the hotel’s “beach boys” gave our two-year-old son a few beach toys to play with. One… Johnny Jet , January 15, 2019
How to Survive a Shark Attack Hopefully, none of us will ever have to use the learned advice of Bill Lytton, who was attacked by a shark while vacationing on Cape Cod in mid-August. But just… Johnny Jet , September 3, 2018
How to Use a Beach Umbrella Safely Umbrella safety may not sound like a serious topic to everyone, but the fact is that many beach umbrellas are heavy, sharp and/or dangerous. Case in point: “A woman in… Johnny Jet , July 26, 2018
How to Take a “Phoneless Vacation” If you’ve ever felt you’re too tied to your phone/devices, listen up: Several companies are now selling “phoneless vacations” and the response has been very positive. As the New York… Johnny Jet , March 26, 2018
Aruba’s Renaissance Island: A Private Island for the People “Accessible private island” seems an obvious contradiction in terms. There are those who vacation on private islands, and then there are the rest of us: hoi polloi who make due… Meaghan Agnew , January 23, 2018