Going To The Beach With Your Friends? Here Are Some Fun Ideas To Try Out
Spending time near water is excellent for your health. Your stress levels plummet, you tend to have your shoes off, meaning you get grounded, and you’re breathing in the fresh air. Going to the oceanside, to the lakeside, or enjoying water sports with your friends has the added benefits that come with socializing with people you love and enjoy. Tahiti yacht charters offer exciting water sports.
The following will explore some fun ideas to help get you and your buddies to the beach and keep you there longer, soaking up that marvelous vitamin D. The goal here is to keep things fun and simple.
Sandcastle Building Contest
Chances are, when you’re at the beach with your pals, someone is absentmindedly moving sand around with their hands or feet anyways. Why not take the relaxing feeling of grains slipping through your fingers to the next level? If you make sandcastle building into a friendly contest, you might just be surprised to find you’ve got a sandcastle connoisseur in your friend group.
Make Your Own Sandwiches
Time spent swimming and frolicking about on the beach tends to also be the time that produces quite an appetite. Why not bring all the ingredients you need for sandwiches or wraps and let everyone put together their own wrap. This reduces the time needed to prepare snacks or meals and also reduces the amount of wasted food should it turn out too much was prepped.
Beach Toys Are Welcome
Modernity has its problems. Beach toys are not one of them. Just take a look at this website, and you’ll get a few ideas. Inflatable devices you can lounge on. Paddleboards for exploring the nearby coast. Kayaks. Canoes. Paddle Boats. There are a lot of fun things you can rent, borrow, or buy and bring to the beach. As a bonus, many of these toys feel relaxing while you’re using them, but workout muscles that don’t normally get attention. If you’re going to be out on the water for an extended period of time, be sure to bring enough water to keep everyone hydrated and appropriate protection from sunburns.
It’s also worth noting that not all beach toys are water-dependent. When was the last time you flew a kite? Did you realize how inexpensive beach balls are? You can pick up a frisbee at the dollar store.
Consider Music
This point comes with a big caveat. If the beach you’re going to has lots of other people around, skip this one. If you’re going to someone’s cottage lakeside or to a beach not often frequented, take some time to build a few playlists and pack a portable speaker. If your friend group has wildly different tastes when it comes to music, it’s extra important that you prepare so you don’t have that one techno friend taking over the speaker or that one country music aficionado or that one rap-obsessed music lover selecting the tunes. Try to find songs that everyone likes. Again, if there are other people around not within your friend group, don’t play your music; that’s rude. They might have come to the beach not wanting to listen to your music.
Go Beachcombing
Beachcombing is a wonderful activity that can leave you with a few treasures to set on your windowsill too. Walking up and down the beach looking for pretty shells, uniquely colored rocks, sea glass, and other trinkets can surprise you. Once you start looking, you’ll see that there’s an endless array of wonderful items to find.
Bonfire
Depending on the beach nearest you, you might be allowed to have a bonfire at night. There is nothing in this world quite like a bonfire at the beach. Watching the stars come out over while the waves rustle in the background and you make yummy snacks on a crackling fire is soothing and pleasant. It’s also a fantastic way to keep yourselves outside for long as it provides enough light to keep hanging out and enough heat to cook something as, often, if you’ve spent the whole day at the beach, you’re pretty hungry from all the swimming. To prepare for this one, you’ll want to look up what the beach’s burn policy is and bring some firewood and kindling and more than one box of matches or lighter (these small items are all too easy to lose in the dark).
The above should help you develop some ideas for what you can do when you and your friends go to the beach. Of course, this is just the beginning. Depending on your friend group and their interests, there are countless things you could be doing. Ask your buddies for ideas as well; they might just suggest the most nostalgic, bonding, picture-perfect moment activity for everyone that you’ve completely forgotten about.
