>A Great Sight at Night

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>Go to the Beach

>When I was young, my parents didn’t like the beach. I don’t think they liked the sand. As a teenager, I couldn’t get enough of it. My Friends and I would drive the hour and a half to get  there, spend the day in the surf and sun and still be in work by 5 o’clock. When I was 18 we probably averaged twice a week, driving back and forth. As an adult, every couple of years we’ll take a non-Disney vacation to Ocean City Maryland,

 and there are times that I can lay on the beach read a book and enjoy the sun for a little while, but I don’t do it like I did when I was younger. Back then, we’d take our “Boom Box” and enough money between us to share a coke. We’d either be in the water, watching girls or catching some rays. Now I take a good book, sun tan lotion and a nice drink, I  mostly watch my wife and don’t enjoy catching the rays anymore. But some people are die hard Tanners. They sit out in their yards, or on their balconies and they live for that weekend run for the sun at the beach.

For those people I present today’s Unknown Magic. Not many people know that Walt Disney World has many wonderful Beaches. These are basically tanning and playing in the sand beaches. You cannot swim at any of the Beaches in Walt Disney World. Disney has signs up stating that this is not allowed, because of a strain of amoeba that lives in lakes in Florida. With that said, the beaches are still a wonderful Unknown Magic, for sun tanners and beach walkers alike, because without the swimming aspect, there are a lot fewer people trying to find a place to sit and still fewer loud families and kids, to interrupt your reading and tanning.

Not all of the Resorts have Beach front, but many of them do. For example, each

village at the Caribbean Beach Resort has its own beach front, wonderful for lying in the sand and tanning. The Beach Club Resort has a great Beach. There are chairs, volleyball net and a swing. On certain nights they even set up a huge blowup movie screen and show Disney Movies. The Contemporary Resort has a nice Beach Area also. It is just behind the Pool and out past the boat dock, to the right. The Wilderness Lodge Resort even has a very nice beach, although it is kind of out of the way, a true Unknown Magic. To get there you need to walk past the bike rental area.

Other Resorts have Beaches also, but the nicest two beach areas in my mind are the Swan and Dolphin Beach and the Beach at the Polynesian Resort. The Swan and Dolphin Beach is actually a semi-circled beach that goes around the water between the two resorts. There is a volleyball net and a neat play area for the kids. It was a very inviting area to walk on and hang out at. My all time favorite though is the beach at the
 Polynesian Resort. How can you not enjoy sitting on a lounge chair, catching some rays, reading a good book, enjoying your drink, all while looking across at Cinderella Castle. If this doesn’t make for a Magical Experience, I don’t know what does!

So, know you know, if you just want to catch some rays and enjoy a good book, a cold drink and maybe a view of a castle, without the noise and crowds of the pool, Go to the Beach, and still enjoy all the Magical Experiences that Walt Disney World has to Offer.