What I love about summer - Lifeguards
Days 'till Memorial Day: 7Days 'till A Little Light Magic: 8
Days 'till the Summer Solstice: 34
Ah, lifeguards. You just can't get tired of looking at these guys. When I was a giggly fifteen-year-old on the beach, my friends and I used to dare each other to go talk to the hunky guardians of swimmers.
Wearing my tiny-weeny bikini, I'd screw up my courage, suck in my gut, thrust out my virtually non-existent bust, and saunter over to the lifeguard stand to stare up at one of the bronzed gods.
The conversation would go something like this:
Me: "Do you know what time it is?"
Lifeguard: "Yeah. One-thirty."
Me: "Um, thanks."
Needless to say, I never got an invitation to the lifeguard ball!
Lifeguard competitions at the Jersey Shore are always fun to watch. Typically, there are swimming, rowing, and lifesaving contests. Each shore town sends its own team of lifeguards, who haul boats emblazoned on the side with the name of their own town to the host town.
A Little Light Magic takes place in a real New Jersey beach town - Margate, New Jersey. Here's a fun video of a recent Margate NJ Invitational lifeguard competition. Catch a glimpse of Margate's most famous landmark, the six-story Lucy the Elephant in the background.
Enjoy!
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Coming May 26!
A Little Light Magic
Summer at the Jersey Shore has never been so hot!
Note: lifeguard photo credit
Labels: a little light magic, countdown to summer, joy nash, lifeguards
posted by Joy Nash | 6:00 AM
17 Comments:
Love the idea of lifeguards. I grew up in the mountains. I only got to see lifeguards on vacation but I remember I always wanted one for myself. LOL Have a great day.
I've always enjoyed lifegurads be them at the beach or the pool! In fact I use to be one...not one of those bronze goddess types, just your normal flat chested type! : }
Love the t-shirt saying...to cute!
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Darby
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One of my favorite movies as a kid was called Lifeguard with Sam Elliot.
Margay
I love the beach, but you want be seeing me in a bikini, oh and I do so love the life Lifeguards, they are usually hunks! a little Light Magic sounds like a great read.
I wish it was summer right now! Would love to be on the beach with these lifeguards!
Not many beaches with lifeguards in southwestern Oregon.
I'm with you, Virginia - my bikini-wearing days are looong over. :-)
Where I have lived, there were never lifeguards. So I missed out on all of that.
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I remember being young and putting our beach blankets down right near those sexy lifeguards, even now when my aunt and I go to Rhode Island, we've done it a few times, lol.
Growing up, we had a lot of fun with the lifeguards at our local beach as many of them were wrestlers, one of whom we was a lifetime friend we lived next door to. I remember Hulk Hogan being there, too. When I was 12, they filmed a B-movie horror movie, The Horror of Party Beach there.
I already have both of those books, but love that T-shirt saying.
Ha! My DH was a lifeguard at the Jersey shore many years ago! Too bad I didn't know him then! It built up nice muscles rowing those boats!
Gee, most of the lifeguards were females when I was growing up. The only guy I remember was the skinny brother of a friend. Of course, in small lakes and pools you don't need the muscles to fight the waves, tides, and currents.
Good shot of Lucy in the video. Just may have to make a trip to see her.
Not being a swimmer I can't say lifeguards have had any kind of presence in my life.
LOL on the questions we ask just to get them to talk to us! I watched I think the show was Baywatch a few times :)
Growing up in WI, there really wasn't much of a need for lifeguards. I knew a couple of lifeguards when I was military stationed in AZ. Of course then they were guys I worked with. Sometimes it's better if they just don't talk.
The closest I'd ever came to a lifeguard was at this lake they have in my area or the pools. I would never get asked out by them. But then I was too self conscious of my bust to truly care.
Wow, our lifeguards never looked like that!
The Jersey Shore is symbolic to my youth, As I am sure for most New Jerseans. :)The lifeguards were the best once you hit 14 or 15. The things we did just to get one to talk. :) Like they knew we existed.
Looking forward to reading this book.
Carol L.
Lucky4750@aol.com
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