Even though its the beach, pack one just in case.
Depending on your activities, If at the beach, pack hats, sunglasses, sun screen, bathing suits and plenty of beach towels.
The last thing on my beach packing list is a game of some description.
Trails to an overlook called Artists Bluff, near Echo Lake in Franconia, N.H., eluded us, so we headed right to the lake, which looked docile when we got to the beach, packed with swimmers and picnickers.
AFTER a terrible battle on April 3rd-5th, Sri Lanka's surviving Tamil Tigers withdrew to a government-designated "no-fire zone"—a narrow beach, packed with refugees, on the country's north-eastern coast.
President Ulysses S. Grant summered in Long Branch, and its grassy bluffs inspired the artist Winslow Homer, whose 1869 oil painting "Long Branch, New Jersey," depicts two Victorian ladies, parasols in hand, peering at a beach packed with bathers and cabanas.
The promotional photo for the beach at the Gran Bahia Principe Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, for example, shows just a few beachgoers and about a dozen unoccupied chairs, while the Oyster.com photo shows a beach packed with chairs and vacationers.
We spent one day at Cefalù, famed as the location of the film "Cinema Paradiso," dividing our time between its fine sandy beach packed with Italian holidaymakers (middle-aged men with paunches jutting out over precipitously narrow Speedos) and its pretty old city of ancient clustered houses.
Just days before the report's release, a pilot flying over northwest Alaska as part of a national marine-mammal survey photographed an estimated 35,000 Pacific walruses on a single beach, packed so densely that they looked, from a distance, like a mass of termites.
Our beach packing list also includes clever yet low-tech items like the Waboba ball -- an alternative to the traditional volleyball or Frisbee -- and stylish customizable Ray-Ban sunglasses (you choose the color, frames, and personalized engraving).
For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico and dangerously near the oil it's come to this: Officials are planning to dig up the approximately 700 nests on Alabama and the Florida panhandle beaches, pack the eggs in Styrofoam boxes, and fly them to a facility in eastern Florida where they can mature.
