Long Beach — Attraction in Stock Island

Long Beach is a berm beach, a collection beach where grasses, sea beads, shells, and even sponges can be seen along the shoreline. This is not a swimming beach. This is an exploring beach. Check out the tidal pools during low tide, walk through the sea lavender and watch for skippers and other butterflies. Enhance your life list with sea and shore birds fishing in the shallows offshore, and relax with a picnic at the high tide line on the coral sand. You might be visited by hermit crabs, or little lizards. It does require a bit of finessing to get through the mudflats behind the beach, but if you have the correct footwear, and a bit of patience (and a good eye for poisonwood) you will get there no problem. Use Google satellite view to spot the best paths through the flats. Watch for deer, raccoon, large egret and pelican tracks in the mud and get a good plant guide to spot saltwort, gumbolimbo or porterweed. This is Refuge land, so removing objects from the beach is prohibited. That said, take all the photos you like. It is especially beautiful at sunrise and...

Don't visit. It is private, and you can get there only if you are staying in the RV park in the entrance of the street or if you go to the natural reserve and cross the mud at the end of the walk. The beach is not cleaned and therefore you can find all types of stuff. It is dangerous. You can twist or break your leg easily if trying to enter the water as there are large coral rocks with huge holes that are covered with seagrass. Place must be...

Don't advertise as a beach if you can't get to it. Recommend remove from...