We arrived in Myrtle Beach on March 9th, set up relaxed, drove around the area trying to find the stuff we would need while we where here. The 10th was my first ever day on the beach of the Atlantic Ocean. Bill snapped this picture of me while I was picking up a rock or shell or 
something. Shortly after he snapped a pic of both of us from arms length.The Atlantic Coast is SO much different than the Pacific in so many ways. It’s extremely developed, really crowded in the public areas and mildly crowded in the private areas. The beach we are on is considered private, there is no public access, and only people staying in the resort along the coast have access to our portion of the beach. We are very close to the beach where we are parked; you could through a baseball from our house to the sand.
We’ve spent a good portion of time so far walking on the beach, it was a bit of a novelty for me to be able to stand in the surf and let the water wash over my feet and not have them turn blue. The average water temperature for this time of year is about 70 degrees, whereas the Pacific is like 40…BBRRR. Bill thought it was funny for someone who grew up around the water to have that be a novelty, for which I looked at him and asked, “Do you remember how cold the Pacific is? The Puget Sound isn’t much better.” We did run into a character on one of our walks…this guy wasn’t giving up ground at all, we almost stepped on 
him. The seagulls here are about the size of crows in the Pacific NW, roughly half the size of the seagulls you see in Washington and Oregon.All in all I’m really enjoying the Myrtle Beach area. The place we are staying is more family oriented so whereas there are a lot of people here for spring break, we’ve so far (knock on wood) avoided the drunken, rowdy college kids.
The same day we took these pictures we had an awesome dinner at a restaurant called SeaFare. It’s an all you can eat buffet, but is so much nicer than any buffet style restaurant I’ve ever been to. You are seated by your server who brings you your drinks and keeps cleaning your table and refilling your drinks. Their buffet was full of awesome food. I stuffed myself with crab legs, crab cakes; crab stuffed portabellas…are you seeing a trend? They had live music and a live mermaid in a pool; the buffet itself was shaped like a ship complete with masts and rigging, really a neat place. If you find yourself in Myrtle Beach, eat at SeaFare and ask to be seated in Betsy’s area.
That’s all for now, it’s beautiful here in the mid to upper 70s most days.
;-)K
