I would never have thought that a small park in my hometown would mean so much to me. Beach Park is little more than a peninsula of grass and sand a few blocks south of the small Scandinavian downtown of Lindstrom, Minnesota. The park is located on a peninsula in South Lindstrom Lake. The locals who I waited on at our local café, The Swedish Inn, told me that the park had been the first location of our town’s cemetery. They said that the coffins were dug up when the water levels started rising and the land was made into a park. The current park includes a grassy area, children’s playground, a fishing pier, and a sandy beach. I never really went there much as a young child, as I grew up about twenty minutes away in a neighboring town. However, it was walking distance from our middle school and high school, Lindstrom’s downtown, and also near where many of my friends lived, so I visited the park countless times when I was nearby. When I was in elementary school, my babysitter for the summer, Becca, took me to Beach Park a few times. She pushed me on the swings, I slid down the blue plastic slide, and climbed on the metal monkey bars. We swam in the cool lake on the hot, humid days. When I was that age, I preferred the playground at Paradise Park, which was closer to my house and had a see-saw and a tire swing. Beach Park is the site of Lindstrom’s annual town celebration, Karl Oskar Days, which takes place the second week of July. The whole town packs into the park with their folding chairs and bug spray to enjoy the culmination of the town celebration – the firework show – on Saturday night. My friends and I attended the fireworks and festival every year. Along with the whole town, we too packed into the grassy area of the park with our folding chairs and bug spray. Mosquitos were rampant, but that did not keep the stubborn, heavily Scandinavian residents away. The fireworks shot off from a barge on the lake and lit up the sky with a colorful display. Shapes with brilliant reds, bright golds, and breathtaking blues covered the sky above the park. Noise from the fireworks pierced my ears. It used to bother me when I was younger, but I got used to it with age. Watching the fireworks show at Beach Park was
On the morning of June 17, 2016, I woke up with a smile on my face like it was Christmas morning. I launched myself out of bed to take a quick shower before I was to meet my friends to leave for Daytona Florida. We planned this trip months ahead of time when we found out there was a truck meet on the weekend of June 18th and 19th. The truck meet we went to was where anyone who owned a pickup truck could come down to Daytona Florida and drive on the beach to get to mingle and entertain one another for the weekend. We met at a local gas station in Morgantown Kentucky at eight that morning. There was eleven of us total going on the trip, my father, Robbie Henderson, my friend Seth Gaskey and his father, Jimmy Gaskey, my
It was a beautiful sunny day and my family and I were driving on the expressway. We were in my Dad’s blue truck with the fifth wheel behind us. We had the windows down in the amazing 80 degree weather. We were around our exit, Myrtle Beach! I was so excited for the trip and couldn’t wait to put my foot in the blue, cold, salt water. After the like 15 hour drive we had just suffered through I was expecting a pretty great trip.
The best choices for eating and dining near the park are on the island of Islamorada. On that island you will find a wide variety of hotels, resorts, and restaurants that can suit your needs while you are in the area.
There is a towing company in central florida that does something similar on the beach boardwalks, they put the signs up facing AWAY from the lot so you can't see them until you actually get out of your car and go to the beach, and they will have an employee in plain clothes and a binocolar calling the towing truck so by the time you go to move your car, it's already loaded up and there's "nothing they can do" so you have to pay hundreds of dollars to get your car back. It's basically extortion, its terrible.
On the far Northern border of Dundee Wisconsin, a small Scout Camp was founded in 1946 and a legend was born. This camp was named Long Lake, after the lake upon which it resides, and it would experience its fair share of storms and turmoil over the ensuing years. Some of its visitors only ever viewed it as a mosquito infested swamp while others would go on to call it their second home. To me however, I have always had a love hate relationship with its wooded trails and murky waters, yet I shall always cherish my memories of it in my heart. Regardless, Camp Long Lake is still one of my favorite places to visit with its quaint ecology conservation lodge, the various activities its main waterfront has to offer, and the thrills of sleeping
There were full of environmental sounds around the Fort Snelling State Park. I recorded the sounds for about 5 minutes and I could hear a lot of sounds I can imagine and reconsider the soundscape and landscape of the Fort Snelling State Park. There were sounds of winds, several different kinds of birds, water, grass when I stepped on, and even sounds of breathes. The Fort Snelling State Park is located in the center of Twin Cities and it is really close from the MSP airport. It is also right next to the highway, so there could be heard various sounds of human resources such as flights which are departing and landing, cars which across the highway, and other sounds from buildings around the park. Because of these reasons, I relatively went to
My friends and I had taken a weekend trip to Orange Beach. We decided to stay in a condo for the entire weekend. The day that we were going to Orange Beach my friend Hasan was graduating from Madison Central High School in 2015, and he was getting his parents to drive him to Orange Beach so that he could hang out with us for the weekend. We did multiple events such as driving down to Orange Beach and back home, going to the beach, biking, waiting for dinner, living in a condo, and celebrating a friend graduating High School. The events on this trip had many fun and horrific event happen in them. This may be a reason why a person does not take a high school graduate.
One thing that is not my favorite thing in the world is that when you are walking to beach and the sand is so hot you are jumping and running at the same time to get all of your chairs set up. But I love going to Florida and going to the beach. We are really lucky though, my grandma that goes with is used to live down there in Florida so we would go down all the time. But she lives up here now and we still try to go every chance we get.
Lake homes hold a special place in a person’s heart. A place that will never be removed or replaced. I still remember my lake home in immense detail. Lake homes aren’t just a building next to water. They hold memories of childhood and family. When you think back to a lake home, it isn’t just where you went in the summer. It’s where you found your first pets. Or had your first Fourth of July. I remember every Fourth of July we would travel up to our lake home. There my mom’s side of the family would come. All of our cousins from my mom’s side are about my siblings, and I’s age. Everytime we are together we have a blast. When it was the Fourth of July we would all go outside with Sparklers. (A type of firework you can hold, and then it will sparkle.
This photograph was taken on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2015. It was taken during sunset and as the tide had gone out, revealing a wider coastline. The world-famous beach is manmade and since 1951, over 80,000 cubic meters of sand has been imported to replace sand lost through erosion from heavy rainfall, sea swells, wind and tropical storms.
At the end of the dock is a sign that reads; "No Fishing, No Swimming, No Dumping"; a sign that is quite often recognized by all visitors of parks and lakes and as big as the windshield. Around the lake there a hills and valleys around Lake Lavon. $200,00 home are springing up like mad. Retirees, former airline pilots, and people generally burned out on big cities are discovering Lake Lavon. The small lake but the perfect weather, and the safe-quiet atmosphere are drawing people like a cover-up draws Ed Bradly. Without thought or hesitation we smiled and warmly held ourselves in each other arms and slowly sat down together at the end of the dock, put out feet in the water and the water was so cool like melted water from snow (to eat the strawberries we brought). The strawberries were delicious; red, ripped, and plumped; sweetness caressed our mouth with very bite. Some were quite sour, but was washed it away by an ocean of water every time. As supplies ran short she decided to play lazy and had me carry her to watch the people fishing by the dock. Although very distinctive and precise, I was like a bear; very step was heavy and short. To the left side of the dock about 200ft people ware fishing and kid's playing soccer on the field near the lake. By watching them play I remember my childhood, that my mother always took me to the Lake Lavon every weekend to fishing, and now I'm with my girlfriend holding her hand and watching people fishing and
I walked along the beach. As I was walking I could feel the fresh smell of the beach like it was an air freshener but it also smelled that gave me a tingle in my nose. As I kept walking along the beach I could feel the light breeze coming against me. This fresh air felt warm as I felt like I was sleeping in a comfortable bed. I kept walking in the beach, as I did it felt like an escape to all my problems and also my stress. Beach felt like a solution to all my problems and could be open with anything.
On a Saturday afternoon, Carlos Muñoz, a resident of San Francisco, gazes at views of San Francisco Bay while listening to electronic dance music at a street fair in Hunters Point. His friends who live near the area invited him to the fair, so he brought his baby son, Maxwell.
The place where I feel most comfortable is a place where I am calm. A place that is peaceful in its own ways. It is the place to go to get away from all my troubles. It is the one place where I could sit forever, and never get tired of just staring into the deepest blue I have ever seen. It is the place where I can sit and think the best. A place where nothing matters but what is in that little moment. The one place capable of sending my senses into an overload. This place is the ocean.
The warm breeze of the ocean air flies past my face. The heat of the yellow sun was sizzling, beating down against my skin, tanning and burning it within seconds. Beach goers were crowded around in all directions. Seagulls gliding past the groups of people, scouting for dropped or forgotten food to eat. Their little footprints marking a trail in the sand all over the place, going in a million different directions, searching for their next meal. I take in the exquisiteness of it all, the blue-green waves crashing into the sandy shore, making white foam and bubbles wash into the sea, little boys and girls that are digging in the bright white sand running away from the small waves before they get wet. The beach is a stunning place to be; there's just something about the ocean waves and the sand between my toes that makes me just want to stay there forever.