Photoblog: Rehoboth Beach, DE

All photos were taken Friday, June 10 through Sunday, June 13, 2004 using a Canon Powershot S400 Elph.

At the beach

Rehoboth Beach, DE watertower

Rehoboth Beach, DE: close enough to be a weekend getaway, far enough not to be a day trip.

View from the room

Friday started out overcast and gray and just got worse with the drive east. The view from the room was thrilling, but not uplifting.

Not a beach to sit on

Lots of wind and rain makes for a gray, cold sea.

Saturday morning, on the boardwalk

Saturday brought much better weather. This is the boardwalk about 8:30am.

Saturday morning, on the beach

A wider view of the boardwalk, from down by the water.

Saturday morning, birdy tracks

One thing I like about the beach is the peaceful intersection of humans and wildlife. Saturday morning's walk revealed some avian activities.

Sunday morning, there were dolphins!

Sunday morning's walk brought a pod of dolphins swimming about 500 yards off-shore. I was lucky to get this picture (lower right hand corner).


To do and eat

Golf, anyone?

If you're of a mind to climb the short flight of stairs, Ryan's Mini-Golf is right on the boardwalk.

Derby races

The boardwalk also hosts four arcades. There's a small amusement park inside Funland, the largest arcade. Funland also has this, which we do with horses here.

The culinary triptych

This corner gives you an almost complete view of the perfect beach food culinary experience. From the left: Thrasher's French Fries (with the blue awning and the time/temp sign) are the perfect fried potato experience (vinegar is a must); Dolles salt water taffy is, I'm told by those who know, the best on the east coast; and Kohr's Frozen Custard can not be missed.

Vanilla frozen custard with a dip and sprinkles

Vanilla frozen custard on a cone with a chocolate dip and rainbow sprinkles: a little bit of heaven.

Hey, I like fries!

Even the birds like Thrasher's fries.


Between here and there

Sweet, sweet corn not quite ready to pick They make bread out of this?

Delaware is amazingly flat. Inland it is home to just a few major agricultural endeavors so you end up driving by miles and miles of corn (left) and wheat (right), and the occasional chicken farm.

East and west-bound spans Suspension span

You can't get to the Eastern Shore, or the beach, without crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. It's a double span bridge, one east-bound (left side, left photo), one west-bound (right side, left photo). The middle portion is a suspension bridge (right photo). You only pay a toll going east-bound.

Sailboats, from the car

Lots of folks took advantage of Sunday morning's good weather on the Bay. It's a little blurry at 50 miles per hour out the car window.