Summertime is beach time! Whether with family or friends, the beach is a place to relax with toes in the water sitting on the sand. So last weekend, a few of us went down to the beach for some relaxing time. We'd heard that the only beach around here was Sandy Point, and locals didn't have great things to say about it. But dying for some sun and sand, we went to investigate anyways. And yes, it was not a pristine beach, but it was nice enough and much better than how the locals described it.
Sandy Point State Park is the last exit before the Bay Bridge on the Western Shore side, right on Chesapeake Bay. In fact, the beach looks out onto the Bay Bridge. We saw several large shipping barges shuttling cargo back and forth to the Port of Baltimore while we chilled on the sand. Even though as SERC interns, we know too much about the Chesapeake Bay water to get in it, we did anyways! We even went all the way under just for fun! The bottom was rocky near the shore, but got sandy further out. When the bottom got sandy, one of my friends went down and got a handful of sand to look for some benthic creatures. That's how we do it! Because science is everywhere, even on vacation at the beach! 
I want to end this post with this cute picture I found on Pinterest - which is an online pinboard site, where people "pin" interesting pictures onto virtual pinboards. Even though I don't personally have a Pinterest, I have definitely found myself perusing the site for baking ideas and good quotes. Especially when I want a good quote for a specific purpose. Like here on this blog. So here's a little bit of life advice from the ocean!
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