"beach watching" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe the activity of hanging out at the beach and observing people, events, and the surrounding environment. For example, "On the weekends, I enjoy beach watching and people-watching."
A man was sunning himself on a Moroccan beach, watching the well-covered-up Mohammedan women go by.
"The tribespeople were on the beach, watching the boat come to the island," he said.
Around 50 of us early risers were standing on the beach, watching the offshore mist bank intently, the one from which the sound was emanating.
They planned to spend the hours until their 9 a.m. check-in on the beach watching the roiling waves -- and they brought a laptop to blog about it.
I walked along the beach, watching as a few persistent college students waded in the murky waters, trying to ignore the destruction around them.
Those interviewed also reported seeing an unusual number of people on the piers and on the beach, watching the refueling.
Pictures show a crowd gathered on the beach watching thick black smoke rising up from the pier.
Or do you merely hold a book before your face as a blind for better beach-watching?
One afternoon shortly before the fight, Cannon was sitting with George Plimpton at the Fifth Street Gym, in Miami Beach, watching Clay spar.
Recently, three girls from Whitestone, Queens, sat in bikinis on a blanket on the sand near the Central Mall at Jones Beach, watching a bevy of beefy boys tossing a football and chasing "errant" passes next to girls' blankets.
I'm sitting in a cozy corner of the makeshift VIP area inside a ballroom of the Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel on Miami Beach watching the entire roster of Miami Heat players prepare to sing.
