Beaches

[pennypincher]

We want to get away for a day and go visit a beach near Orlando. Which beach is best and how long does it take to get there from Disney World.

Thanks

 

[Ecdubfan]

The most common nearby beaches are Cocoa Beach, Daytona Beach, and Clearwater. Of those, I suggest Clearwater as the best. Daytona is ok, but parts of it seems fairly seedy. Cocoa was nice the first visit, but there was some sort of work going on off shore and a big pipe going through the beach in Feb. Not sure if this is still going on or not. Clearwater was trafficy, but very beautiful.

 

[Katie]

WONDERING ABOUT MORE ON COCOA beach..anybody have any comments about cocoa beach..we have ressies there june 14-18th..after leaving Disney for 10 days!

PIPE?? what is that??? UGH...

 

[pennypincher]

Where is a nice, quiet place to go on Daytona Beach for some privacy without the crowds?

 

[Ecdubfan]

I'm not sure what the pie was for. It had a warning sign to stay so many feet away and that it was high pressure. I'm not sure if they were dredging or it was waste disposal or what. It ran diagoanl across the beach out into the ocean about 1/4 to 1/2 mile south of the pier. There was some sort of rig a bit of the way out in the water. Of course, that was February. MAybe it is all gone by now. We did see lots of dead Jelly fish and a dead sea turtle nearby as well. I probably won't go back after that.

 

[npall]

The big pipe you see offshore is part of an ongoing beach resoration project for Cocoa. After many years of corrosion there was very little "beach" left. So what they are doing is taking sand from the bottle of the ocean and pumping into a ship barge and then dumping it on the beach. This has been happening for about 8 months and YOU WILL BE PLEASED! The boardwalk use to be almost completely over water and now more than half of it is over beach area. Before this began at high tide the beach would half to be evacuated because there was no shore line. They have added over 200 feet of beach. Nothing to worry about at all.

Hopes this help

Naomi

 

[mrsmom]

I really liked clearwater, we went there a few days before we went to disney and the kids loved it, very clean, and beautiful and alot to do.
Mrsmom