![]() Take a leisurely drive along SR A1A and find a pocket park you can call your own. Take MacArthur Boulevard off A1A a few hundred yards from the Stuart Causeway and drive a half-mile past the House of Refuge.ĭon’t limit yourself to the beaches I’ve highlighted here. There’s a bathhouse with showers and pavilions for picnicking. The beach has plenty of parking, but arrive early on weekends. This may be the island’s most well-known beach, and has been completely restored since it was battered to oblivion during the 2016 hurricane season. (Photo: Bob Rountree)īathtub Reef Beach, Bring the family - A near-shore reef protects an idyllic lagoon, taming surf and offering shallow pools of water and easy snorkeling. Personally, I drive right on by this park for the more secluded beaches further north on A1A.īathtub Reef Beach on Hutchinson Island. There’s plenty of parking, although on weekends with nice weather, the cars overflow onto the shoulders of A1A. Jensen Beach Park, Where the action is - Possibly the most popular beach on Hutchinson Island, Jensen Beach Park has something for everyone: volleyball courts, picnic pavilions, restrooms and showers, a concession stand and lifeguards. You would never know this beach is there unless you’re looking for it. The dog beach is at the end of the road, but you can pull off before the end and find a more isolated beach access. I love this beach for its hard-pack-sand access road behind the dunes. ![]() The 24-acre beach is also popular for fishing, but get their early so your lines don’t get tangled by rambunctious dogs running in and out of the surf. Nevertheless, dogs need a place to play in the ocean, and this is the place. Walton Rocks Beach, Bring Fido - The pawfect place to bring your canine, although on weekends it gets crowded with dogs running everywhere. The busiest beaches are near the island’s three access roads, causeways in Stuart, Jensen Beach and Fort Pierce, but if you want to get your bare feet in the sand on a magnificent pristine beach, drive past the obvious to the middle of the island, closer to the power plant.īeach access road behind the dunes to Walton Rocks on Hutchinson Island. Lucie Power Plant, a nuclear facility that is the reason most of the island’s development is isolated to the north and south ends of the island. The island is anchored in the middle by Florida Power & Light’s twin-unit St. Hutchinson Island is actually two barrier islands, but the island most associated with the name is 24-mile-long South Hutchinson Island, from Fort Pierce south to Stuart. Parking is FREE on Hutchinson Island’s beaches! “I feel like I’m in Florida again,” opined my wife Kathy, even though she has lived in South Florida for almost 40 years. Many of the smaller pocket parks are deserted, even on weekends, and some are hard to discover. Another cool thing about surfing is that no matter where you are in the world, you know that the person who’s rocking up next to you in the parking lot – whether it’s in an SUV or in a Volvo 240 – is looking for the exact same thing as you.Warning: Blind Creek Beach on Hutchinson Island is clothing optional. To be completely at the mercy of the elements. “There is something about being in the ocean, totally devoid of technology: No phone, laptop, or Wi-Fi. No matter where I go in Norway or the rest of the world, I always have friends to hang out with.” Basically, all of my closest friends are involved in the surf community somehow, which is another thing I love about surfing. The fact that these ardent souls let people like me take part in the activity and the community they for a long time, could enjoy by themselves, says a lot about how open, cool, and incredible they are. There are people who have worked hard for decades and spent plenty of time mapping the coastline, cleaning beaches, and setting up an infrastructure to make surfing a safe, fun, and sustainable sport. “I have to point out that I haven’t been in the surf community for 30 years like some have. You must withstand ice-cold days in February and stormy days in November. You definitely need a bit of stubbornness and patience. You never know what to expect, especially not in Norway, where the weather changes all the time. While a football field looks pretty much the same 365 days a year, the ocean changes every second. ![]() To make a living out of it, you can’t live more than a couple of hours drive from the waves. “First of all, you have to be in the right place at the right time. What is it like working as a surf photographer in Norway?
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