----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:11 AM, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/8/19 Christine Aguila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Where's this beach? > > Sadly, the water's often not fit for swimming due to high e-coli > counts. Since this summer's been quite cool (we really haven't had a > heatwave yet) there are been very few "red flag" (no swimming) days. We've got a bit of that problem too, but it's been very nice this summer as well--very cool summer for a Chicago summer. > There's a beautiful boardwalk (yesterday's pic of the dog gazing at > the ice cream cone was taken on it) that runs most of the length of > the Beaches. > > http://tinyurl.com/5c6pas > > http://bp0.blogger.com/_EaTEtfR4WJw/RwYsYsA-_0I/AAAAAAAAAxo/75SbSkylNlc/s1600-h/oct_5.jpg Very nice! Reminds me of Chicago Beaches actually. > > You guys have large urban beaches in Chicago, don't you? Oh, yes, about 18 plus miles of public beach front, which we're quite proud of. My home beach is Foster Beach. I grew up off of Foster Ave & it's about 15 mins by car or a quick bus ride if the buses are quick, but they never are in Chicago. The sandcastle shot I just posted was taken at Foster Beach. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
