surf side 15

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I do have quite a bit lined up here to write about our recent trip to Surfside Beach, SC. For those of you that don’t know Surfside Beach is just south of Myrtle Beach, SC. We just got back yesterday and have mostly finished unpacking and getting ready to get back into the routine of things. Now, in some ways it will be good to get back into the swing of things, although overall it was a good trip.

We stayed in a nice condo in the Surfwatch building. It was nice to be on the top floor, we had a nice balcony view of the beach and ocean and the kids had fun. Fortunately we were all over the stomach bug that we got the week prior to heading down. (We thought we may have to delay the drip a bit.) But, all went well, we got the rental van and loaded up. Now, if you’ve traveled with kids, you know that it’s easy to bring EVERYTHING along. I’ll try to talk about the in-car entertainment in another post because there’s just so much I can talk about in one posting.

Surfside Beach is a really nice little town. It’s quieter than Myrtle Beach and they intend to not allow large high-rise condos. In fact our 4 floor of livable space condo building was one of the taller ones along the surfside oceanfront. There are good sidewalks on both sides of Ocean Blvd. heading up and down the beach which we made some good use of. There are also sidewalks down Surfside Avenue towards Business 17 and down 10th street. There are several parks including one all Childrens park on 10th street that we had scouted out beforehand as a diversion if we needed it for the kids, but ultimately we didn’t make it to them.

We weren’t there for many days, the day we arrived it was raining and we got in rather late, so there wasn’t time to go out to the beach. Our next day though was the day to go to the beach. Although it was quite cool (mid 60s with a cool breeze), our oldest (7 years) had a ball playing in the water and some in the sand as well. We had brought a kite with us to try out which did quite well in the breeze and we also had a Frisbee that Dunes Realty had given to the kids on our arrival.

We had walked down to the pier at Surfside Beach that day and taken a bit of a look around there, getting a bite of breakfast at a great restaurant at the pier called Nibils. I HIGHLY recommend getting something to eat there. I think we ate there about 3 times while we were there and everything was very good. The Scallops for dinner were exceptional, their breakfast fare was good and the shrimp was very good as well. There is a pay to park lot at the pier, but really it was walking distance for us, so two of the times we ate there we just walked.