Captain Steve Savidge: Rehoboth Beach is great for families.
The boardwalk in Rehoboth is a mile long. It’s a great place to take a walk. You can shop;
there’s plenty of things for the kids to do. A perfect day on the beach for me would be to get
there early before the crowds arrive, get a little swimming in, get a little sun, and then go to
one of the amazing restaurants there for lunch. Dogfish Head brewery got started here in Rehoboth
in the early ’90s. They have a restaurant, store and a small brewery there still.
Lewes, Rehoboth Beach and Dewey Beach are all very close in proximity. Rehoboth is more of
a family-oriented restaurant scene. Dewey is more of the party, the bar scene. And Lewes is more of
a historical town. Lewes has a lot of historical sights. There is a museum from the origination of
Lewes called the Zwaanendael Museum. There’s a historic lightship that’s docked in the canal.
Cape Henlopen State Park is almost a 1-mile-square area between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach. It is one
of three kind of rare dune habitats that are in the United States. The trails at Cape Henlopen
are the best way to really experience the park. We have elevated platforms so that
you can actually walk through the dunes and the wetlands. My favorite activity at Cape
Henlopen is to fish. We have a surf-fishing beach so you can get a permit to drive out on
the beach and actively engage in fishing. The Fort Miles Museum & Historical Area is
what is left of the original Fort Miles that was built during World War II. We have fire
control towers at Fort Miles and Cape Henlopen. One of the fire control towers is open and you
can actually climb up it and get an amazing view of the park and the town of Lewes.
If you’re here just for a day or two, I would recommend walking on the boardwalk,
walking on the beach, watching the sunrise first thing in the morning and eating out.
Lauren Weaver: Well, the unique
thing about Bethany Beach is that it’s family. My grandfather vacationed here; my father vacationed
here as a boy. And there’s just such a timeless tradition that you have in Bethany Beach.
One of the coolest things that you can do here is take a wildlife paddle. We have a really unique
ecosystem that is host to birds from all over the world. The inland bays ecological system is
unreal. So, we have the horseshoe crab, which is the symbol of Delaware. We have the largest
population outside of Japan of horseshoe crabs. The beach culture here is a fun mix of vacationers
and year-round people that love the beach. When you love a sunrise or the smell of the
ocean and the breeze and the sand, it’s just something that everyone gets excited for.
The boardwalk in Bethany Beach is really unique. There’s no real loud neon signs
coming at you. It’s just a real fun family feel. I think nobody leaves without a box of
fudge or a box of taffies to take home and show off that you were down at the shore.
Fenwick Island State Park is on the narrows in between Bethany and the town of Fenwick Island,
and you have oceanfront and bayside, so you can go and have a beautiful day on the beach,
or you can cross the street and have a day in a stand-up paddle or a kayak, and get
the best of both worlds: the ocean and the bay. The Shipwreck Museum, which is in Fenwick Island,
has been there since Dale Clifton found his first coin. He decided that he wanted to create
a museum to tell a little bit of the story about the unique history and shipwrecks all
up and down the coast of the Atlantic and some of the treasures heading up into the Delaware Bay.
The Assawoman preservation area used to be farmland that has been given over for a
wildlife refuge. It’s a really beautiful area. They have observation towers, so you can get a
view of the marshes and the birding nurseries. Bethany Beach is beautiful. It is quaint,
it is small, it is friendly – all the things that people come to the beach for in the summer.