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Virginia Beach has a Secret

Will Layton is a Realtor with The Layton Realty Group in Virginia Beach. Visit https://www.williamlayton.com/ for more neighborhood information. [email protected] 757-621-8995 Check out our YouTube channel    / @livinginvirginiabeach   While you can see some beach and water while you’re standing on the boardwalk at the ocean front, you’re only seeing a sliver of what’s there. And that little sliver is the only thing most people see. I know it doesn’t look small. That’s a lot of beach and a lot of boardwalk. But it’s only a sliver. Some of the beaches in The North End are 500 feet wide with amazing dunes covered in beach grass. You won’t see that as a tourist. This is where there are no crowds. You always get a front row. It’s not stacked up five umbrellas back like in the touristy areas. And you can buy a house there for a fraction of what it would cost on Long Island. There’s ten times more beach on the Atlantic Ocean in Virginia Beach than what you see on the boardwalk. That includes the beaches in The North End and Sandbridge. And still there’s more. You also have another five miles of beaches on the Chesapeake Bay. And then all the interior waterways off Broad Bay like Linkhorn Bay and Crystal Lake, and both the eastern and western branches of the Lynnhaven River. This is all salt water, and tidal. And it’s full of wildlife and natural beauty. And the vast majority of it is residential and quiet and beautiful. And it just goes on and on. You’ll find everything from small teardowns to 10 million dollar estates, and everything in between. You can get a glimpse of Broad Bay as you drive over the bridge from Great Neck to Shore Drive. But just a glimpse. There’s no riverwalk or promenade providing public access to take in the sights. And you can’t see it from the neighborhood roads because it’s hidden behind houses and trees. So unless you’re standing in someone’s backyard, you have to hike two miles through First Landing State Park to see it. Or you can take your boat. When you do, it’s you and the nature around you. If you go there on July 4th weekend, you’ll definitely have some company, but most days it will only be you. I usually take out my jet ski first thing in the morning. Sometimes I’ll be out there for 30 minutes and not see another boat. If I want to see more people, I can go on a Saturday afternoon. On a beautiful summer weekend you’ll see crowds at the narrows. That’s the beach at the state park where the water narrows between Broad Bay and Linkhorn Bay. Clearly that’s no secret, but it’s almost all locals. But the most amazing part of it to me is the fact that almost all of it is hidden from the general public unless you happen to go looking for it, even though it’s right in the middle of it all. And still there’s more. One of my favorite things to do in the whole world is right here in Virginia Beach. Keep in mind that I’ve been around the world a few times and I’ve seen some things. Still, this ranks up right up there at the top. I take the boat out on the Chesapeake Bay when the winds are from the south. It’s like being on a lake. There are no ocean swells and no wind driven waves because the land is blocking the wind. There’s a long section of First Landing State Park on the Chesapeake Bay that is almost always empty because the public entrances are so far away. Sometimes we are the only ones there. You can see how shallow the water is. Sandbars everywhere. We’ll anchor in knee deep water that’s clear and 85 degree from May through September. It’s easy to pretend you are on a deserted island in the Bahamas. I know it’s not the Bahamas. Because if it was the Bahamas it would have taken me 10 hours and thousands of dollars to get there. Here, it only takes me 20 minutes and I can do it every day if I want to. Or you can go find the dolphin. Most of the time you see a small family of four or five. But sometimes you find a school of 50 dolphin. Please forgive me, a pod of dolphin. 50 or one, the kids act like it’s their first time seeing a mermaid. They go crazy. What are your chances of seeing a dolphin. I’d say about 100%. They live here and there are a lot of them. Same with the pelicans. And you can spend hours just sitting there watching the osprey dive for fish. Sometimes we will cruise out off the beach for a mile or two and just sit there and watch the sun set. It’s like you’re the only people on the planet, even though there are 1.8 million people in Virginia Beach and the surrounding towns. And that’s the real beauty of it. You get all the benefits of living in the largest city in Virginia on one hand, and you can experience the beauty of the empty white sandy beaches on the other. You get to have both and it feels like the rest of the country doesn’t have any idea what they’re missing...