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That looks amazing!
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Old Posted Jun 23, 2020, 9:22 PM
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Singing Sands Beach (Dorcas Bay, near Tobermory, on Lake Huron) is great.

very warm, due to shallowness (you can walk for hundreds of meters into the lake). A bit like Miracle beach on Vancouver Island in this respect.
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Down the lake is Sauble Beach, also great.

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I spent the day at the Cap-Saint-Jacques beach yesterday. It's on the northwestern edge of Montreal Island, about 30 minutes by car from downtown (with no traffic). The beach is nice enough but after living near the ocean for so many years a lake just can't compare.



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Hadden Park Beach in Vancouver, the city's year-round, off-leash beach. You can also see English Bay Beach in the distance, across the water.

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Down the lake is Sauble Beach, also great.

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Dreamy. I went there a lot growing up. And while you wouldn't mistake the waves for anything along an ocean shore, they can still be fun.
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Dreamy. I went there a lot growing up. And while you wouldn't mistake the waves for anything along an ocean shore, they can still be fun.
If the waves aren't dangerous, and there's no pile of beach rocks or dunes, it isn't a real beach.

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The Pinery. 45 mins north of London. Plenty of Dunes.

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Alas the water is at record high levels, putting most of the beach underwater.

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Not exactly an ocean beach, but my neighbourhood's beach, in Verdun, is only 5km away from Montreal's city centre, not even 500m away from De l'Église métro station (here on Google maps).

It's on a branch of the St.Lawrence river, between Île-des-Soeurs (Nun's Island) and Verdun.

It opened last year, and has been very popular ever since.



















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Found some nice photos of Sandbanks Provincial Park(Burgeo, NL) on twitter: https://twitter.com/DonnieOK/status/1290077539084333058








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^You sure that isn't the Canary Islands, there?
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^You sure that isn't the Canary Islands, there?
Exactly what I tought!
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Some of Newfoundland's best beaches are on the northeast coast around Lumsden.

This is one of a series of beaches along a twenty to thirty mile stretch of coast. Social distancing is no problem here.

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My annual pilgrimage to Port Elgin/Lake Huron.

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I'm not a beach person (the sun is bad news for redheads) but I did like Dwight Beach on the way to Algonquin Park. My favourite beaches are on Oregon's southwest coast.

Last year when my girlfriend spent the day on that Port Elgin beach I went on a real estate tour. My favourite Lake Huron beach towns: Bayfield, Amberley and Old Woman's River.)
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Cape Breton/Cabot Trail hosts some gems on the west and east sides, but I stumbled across pure magic coming down the east side (don't have a pic but sumptin' like the one below).

I saw the "Perfect Wave"*, all by itself, break for what seemed like minutes... then the cove was still... then another one arrived...

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Balm Beach is one of those "beach towns", just on a really small scale. No boardwalk, but a tiny strip and it's got the typical establishments of a grill, arcade, tacky gift shop, go karts and mini golf, cheap motels and a couple of "resorts".

This is 10 minute drive from the family cottage. Where we are it's just beach, cottages and a parking lot nearby with one convenience store and some porta potties. Balm Beach is where you go with the kids to go play some games.

Too bad it's flooded early in the summer two years in a row. Water on the parking lot. Water levels high on our beach too but doesn't affect anything.

I read it was because they opened the locks from Lake Superior to let all that water flow down to the rest of the Greatl Lakes.


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Don't know if this has been covered here before, but what makes a place a "beach town"? Does it have to be seasonal (in Canada) as in the population explodes in the summer? Does it have to have arcade, boardwalk, tacky shops, a pier, mini golf and go karting on a strip? Tonnes of cottages for rent and "resorts"?

And what's the line between a town on the water that happens to have a small beach and a "beach town"? Are there any towns that straddle that line?

I consider Wasaga, Sauble, Grand Bend and the small one I pass by, Balm Beach, to be beach towns. Doesn't necessarily have to have all those things I mentioned, but it just feels like a beach town and has that beach culture. I'm not sure about Port Elgin, Lambton Shores, Kincardine and Southampton, all on Lake Huron along with Sauble and Grand Bend. Port Dover on Erie is arguable, considering it has a couple of these features and palm trees! But really, it's known more for Friday the 13th biker rallies.

And of course, provincial parks don't count, unless there's one I don't know about that has those things.

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Don't know if this has been covered here before, but what makes a place a "beach town"? Does it have to be seasonal (in Canada) as in the population explodes in the summer? Does it have to have arcade, boardwalk, tacky shops, a pier, mini golf and go karting on a strip? Tonnes of cottages for rent and "resorts"?

And what's the line between a town on the water that happens to have a small beach and a "beach town"? Are there any towns that straddle that line?

I consider Wasaga, Sauble, Grand Bend and the small one I pass by, Balm Beach, to be beach towns. Doesn't necessarily have to have all those things I mentioned, but it just feels like a beach town and has that beach culture. I'm not sure about Port Elgin, Lambton Shores, Kincardine and Southampton, all on Lake Huron along with Sauble and Grand Bend. Port Dover on Erie is arguable, considering it has a couple of these features and palm trees! But really, it's known more for Friday the 13th biker rallies.

And of course, provincial parks don't count, unless there's one I don't know about that has those things.
I think your definition and examples basically cover it. So a place like Cobourg isn't a beach town per se.

Bayfield is a tricky one, because it's meets most of the criteria but feels a bit snooty, i.e. the businesses aren't targeting teenagers and twenty-somethings looking to get hammered. Also, the main drag doesn't run directly to the beach.

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The White Rock strip has a bit of that stuff. Ice cream shops tshirt shops etc. But no patio lanterns or faded plywood.
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