Santa Marinella Beach

Last week we went to the beach again. We thought we would try something new and go to a beach north of us instead of the other beach we went to last time. Our roommate recommended it so we thought we would go give it a try. We had to take a train about a half an hour north of us to Santa Marinella. The beach was just a short walk from the train stop. Adam gave us really good directions, John had sketched out a map and he was spot on. Took us a couple minutes to walk down there. When we got there we were pretty bummed about coming to this beach cause the extent of the free beach can be seen below.. There was only about 20 feet of beach because there was a private beach right next to it. We were kind of pissed that we listened to Adam. The bottom was really thick with seaweed and coral and rocks. There were also lots of minnows we could see, the water was crystal clear. We swam out to the rocks and climbed up and rested for a bit.

We swam in and talked with some of the locals, one of them translated what the other was telling us. She asked us who we were, what we were doing here and this and that.. We told her we were studying abroad from the States and she gave us some information about the area. 
We went to lunch. Had some margaritas, which is a cheese pizza personal size in Italy, and had a beer. We walked down the coast going to lunch and we found a spot we wanted to try out.. The free beaches don't have umbrellas for you in the sand, and this one was wide open so we knew it was public. 


There was also more than 20 feet of beach which was good! The sand was really nice and this beach was so much better than the small one we went to in the morning. We took a short nap then saw there was also rocks off in the distance. We decided to swim out lay on the rocks, after that we had to wade in to get John's camera so we could take some pictures on the rocks.. Once we took some pictures we called it a day and headed in to dry off and catch the train home. Below is a link to the rest of the pictures we took at the beach.