Tag: Fourth Of July

#TBT…please use wooden dune walks.

Flagler Beach is gearing up for the biggest event of the year tomorrow…July 4th!  The day when all the west county folks pull on their only pair of shorts and come to the beach for a good time.  That was…

All Things July 4th…Take 2

There are so many things I could write beside these pictures but clearly they speak for themselves…what sticks out most in my mind were the last words my mom spoke to me when lending me her tent…she told me to be…

Flagler Beach 1980 July 4th watermelon eating contest.

All Things July 4th…

Fourth of July circa 1980… I am actually surprised that I was willing to participate in the watermelon eating contest.. I was so shy growing up. My will to eat some tasty treat must have overridden the tremendous fear I…

All Things July 4th… Where Am I?

So i wasn’t going to do this last one, I was quitting the Game I started and throwing in the towel. Finished, done, over.…and then I got a phone call and figured well, why not? seeing as how this is…

All Things July 4th…

I worked as a lifeguard in Flagler Beach for many summers.One year during the fourth of July holiday there was a man swimming in THE BOAT CHANNEL! My Captain asked me why I did not swim out there to get…