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Originally Posted by njbchbum
senior citizen - as a jersey girl who LOVES her beach - i learned LONG AGO that one can develop a monster of a sunburn sitting under an umbrella just because of the reflection of the rays of the sun off the sand and the water! combine that with a day of deep sea fishing as well as just being out and about in the summer sun is a sure recipe for disaster.
long gone are the days of sunworshipping for this fair skinned and freckled beach bum! but i have not given up my love for sunshine - taken in appropriate doses! since we snowbird in the villages, i don't worry too much about a sunburn of any degree between jan and the end of april. lazy days are spent on the lanai - active days are spend washing the car/golf cart and/or shopping. the amount of sun exposure from either enables a gradual development of what i've heard called the 'natural' florida tan - the one picked up just from being outside doing the same things we do outside anywhere else.
were i to be a permanent resident - it's for sure i would have a wardrobe of hats for the summer/fall and an ample supply of spf 50 - 35 and moisturizer with vitamine and aloe!  |
You said it. Appropriate doses is the "key". Plus just getting the sun naturally without actively pursuing it. I know you are right about the reflection of the rays off the sand and the water.....plus the umbrella really not helping.
Thought you'd get a kick out of this.....our Jersey cousins from Westwood, Bergen County thought the Maine sand looked like "mud" compared to the soft whiter Jersey sand of Long Beach Island. Some of the pics she saw were of the grandkids digging a big hole right after "high tide".....so now, it's the competition of the war of who has better sand????
Obviously, it is New Jersey, our home state........that has the softer sand.
But Maine's seashores are pretty and quaint and what we've known for the past 43 years.......plus love the cliffs and the bold open ocean crashing against the rocks.......