Dear NP,

You can drink most anywhere here. But be sure to include lots of water ... for every drink have a bottle or hald a bottle of water. Alcohol drains you. I was raised in North Florida and am still amazed after all the years here how different it is just simply due to the latitude I suppose. So, yes you can pour your own.

I was amazed when I moved here that it isperfectly acceptable to take your own drink - a traveler - into a bar as long as you ordered another from them before you left. It's been years since I've been bar hopping so don't take that to the bank for these days but this should not be a problem at all!

Also, please take the bottle and the empty cups, napkins and other debris with you when you leave. Leave only footprints.

Pamela

You should avoid glass, though, so people don't get hurt. You can get mini bottles of Cruzan rum, and those are in plastic bottles. Also cans of beer instead of bottles. You can get a plstic flask and pour your liquor into one of those before you leave home. You can buy the Rum Runner flask online.

I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE ARRESTED FOR DRINKING ON A BEACH UNLESS THEY WERE DRUNK AND SOMEONE CALLED THE COPS. I WOULD SUGGEST SEVERAL THINGS:

1. TAKE THE EMPTY BOTTLES WITH YOU OR PLACE IN A WASTE CAN.

2. DO NOT DRINK WHILE IN THE WATER. THIS IS THE WORST TRAILER TRASH YOU CAN BE.

3. AVOID ANY GLASS.

4. DON'T DRINK SO MUCH THAT YOU ARE OUT OF CONTROL. WHEN EVER I SEE ANYONE ON SAPPHIRE BEACH THAT HAS HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK I SAY SOMETHING.

SO ENJOY, BUT TOO MUCH.

BILLD

You asked one simple question "Can you drink on the beach", the answer is yes. We bring a cooler and drink on the beach all the time. It's quite accepted. On Magens and most beaches you cannot have a glass bottle out. The lifeguards usually will ask you to pour it in a cup. As long as you keep the bottle in a cooler you'll be fine. Feel free to drink in the water as well, you're not "white trash", just people on vacation having fun. Oh and you're aloud to drink too much as well (if you're taking a taxi), again, enjoy your vacation. We'll have many bottles of rum on Magens today as we have guests in visiting us! Dare I say we'll even bring in a drink into the water (we're so trashy!).

Come on, Billd. One of the most relaxing things in the world is to be on a floatie at Megans bay or the west side of STX with an adult beverage in hand.

I guess it all depends on what you like. Drinking in the water generally means that you have a bottle. Not all times, but many, I see the bottle get dropped. When I do I just walk, or wade, up to the person and ask him if he would not mind diving down and getting the bottle. Having it was ashore or to have someone step on it is not exactly PARADISE in my mind. Paradise is a beautiful untouched beach with beautiful water not one with bottles all around. I don't mind people having a drink or two on the beach. But the water is for swimming and snorkeling or what ever. And without saying getting drunk is the most stupid thing one can do. Drinking by nature dulls the mind. A drink or two is great and should all be done in moderation.

Again it is all in what you like and of course consideration for the others.

Sorry if I offended anyone. Drink where you want.

Billd

So Billd --- What do you actually say to someone on the beach "that has had too much to drink" -- ?? -- you must end up having some interesting conversations with some somewhat irrational people -- and I would guess you are pretty happy they don't have the Sunday parties at Sapphire anymore -- you must have been really busy 'saying something' to lots of overserved folks on those days.

I "think" I understand what bllld is trying to say, but just not wording it right. Tho I am not sure.....
But as far as drunks go, my Dad once told me that "you cannot reason with a drunk"!

I had to laugh, I never considered myself "white trash", but I have had a drink in my hand while wading in the water. At Magen's Bay the cocktail waitresses actually wade in the water to take and deliver cocktail orders. At our condo, I bought a cooler called the "Big Bobber", it looks like a giant fishing bobber and can hold a 6 pack of beer, it floats on the water.

Billd, you sound like a great guy, disagree on the drinks in the water, but completely agree with glass at the beach and anyone that litters. We always clean up after ourselves. One thing that a lot of people that might not be aware of is all of the danger to the wildlife that cigarette butts bring. The fish and the dolphins will eat them but not digest them, they expand and make them feel full so they stop eating and ultimately can starve to death. Very sad.

Just got back from Magens, went through 2 bottles of margaritas (stored in our handy dandy cooler) and 6 beers (alum). All done in the infamous plastic red cups. God how I love the red cups.

Try the blue plastic cups. They make the drink taste better.

Bassman, cheat on the red cup? Never!