To ask what you do with your belongings when you go to the beach solo?

[drinksdilemma]

I’m not new to solo travel, but I am new to solo summer travel.

I have a few beach visits planned and don’t really know what to do with my stuff if I go to the beach? Do I just leave my bag on the beach and hope it doesn’t get knicked, or do I accept that I just won’t be going in the sea unless I book into a beach club?

But they'd just nick the safe, surely?

Any I’ve had have been fabulous (not expensive) test at home with tissues in it in the sink. As long as you follow the sealing instructions, they work fine. I always put my phone in one to go in the sea on holiday as can also take photos too. I also have a bigger one that doubles as a float for lake swimming in the uk. Phone, car keys, even towel/clothes in that one if needed.

I went to Rhodes for two weeks by myself and was on the beach from 7am to 7pm. I left my belongs on my sunbed when swimming, which was often as it was over 40. I don't take much tho just a cover up towel and ereader. My phone and about ten euro to cover water for the day were ina plastic pouch round my neck for swimm8ng.

Locally I leave my stuff on the beach all the time without concern.

thinking on it, I do this everywhere I swim,
but away from home I’d be more minimalistic with what I take to the beach.

Get a dry bag we use them. My other half uses it when take camera to beach the essentially float https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChsSEwj_4Jbl796UAxVQllAGHbetJ3YYACICCAEQPBoCZGc&co=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw8uTQBhAdEiwAVvtJymtReAt3qrCctjYsRBCaEhmAVrUOAlFzorCXEs20fk_m_NY3qL4u9hoCljAQAvD_BwE&sph=&cce=1&sig=AOD64_1lMvurTGVi4ueRvHw9eL0ahUUz_w&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwitt5Dl796UAxUHa0EAHcsCJTwQwg8oAHoECAwQQQ&adurl=

I use a tow float for valuables. They’re also good for being spotted.

i have several now of various types.

i have this one:

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the cheap waterproof cases for phones also do actually work (somewhat to my surprise)

I don't take anything I can't afford to lose.

So leave phone and credit cards and Kindle at the apartment.

Take a bit of actual cash (rare sight!) and a paper book. And some suncream.

That way I'm not bothered the whole time I'm in the water.

(I did buy a phone waterproof lanyard thing once but didn't fully trust it so just leave phone behind)

Would be trickier if on full day out and having to carry other belongings. If I REALLY had to, I'd bury them under my beach towel. Assuming most beach thieves are opportunistic and just wanting to grab and go. But still more of a risk than I could relax in the water with, really.

I don't leave my stuff. I paddle in the sea carrying my bag.

You're making this very hard work. People are giving you cheap answers to your (not really a) problem and you're complaining that they're not expensive enough! Why should they be more expensive? It's just cheap plastic.

Either leave your camera at the place you are staying or get a dry bag and take it in the water with you.

Someone should put the lockers at beaches, it'd be a real money maker since so many people would use them

as pp's have said - take minimal valuables and then stick those that you do take in a waterproof pouch. I've just used cheapy ones and they've been fine. to be extra careful I've either double-bagged them (sandwich bag within a 'proper' one) or put the waterproof bag within a tow float - the additional bonus of a tow float is once inflated you can hold onto it for a lazy float as well.

I also do the same whenever I go paddleboarding as need to take my car keys with me. Never had an issue.

I wouldn’t leave my phone on a beach in a million years!

Yes

I would! I've been dreaming of taking myself off to a beach for the day but I've got nobody to go with and I wouldn't take the car.

I have an awesome towel that has a secret zip pouch in one of the corners, fits my phone & key. It’s great as nobody would steal a towel laid out on the sand so valuables go in there! I can’t remember the brand but there are lots of things like it out there.

You can get flotation bags for open water swimming. They are really waterproof with a compartment to put valuable. Bright orange and have a foot leash.

I'd take a tow float, camera and phone in another waterproof bag inside it just in case, but if you don't overfill them they are brilliant (the ones labelled dry bag, the doughnut ones tend to leak ime) and you can pop it in a drawstring pe type bag then use it as your bag for stuff in the day

A friend of mine has a waterproof camera to at she takes in the sea with her attached to her wrist

I have a vision of beach thieves arming themselves with tiny amounts of explosive to blow up the mini safe, or carrying little acetylene torches to cut their way in. Or more likely just picking up the mini safe, shoving it in a back pack and carrying it back to their thieves den to break in at leisure.

Random one but put your valuables in a clean but folded over nappy and leave under your towel- people won’t go near it.

We use a waterproof phone pouch - DH had it around his neck. It has worked for several years. Just from Amazon

Waterproof bag clipped to a waist belt. DH and I were once at the most incredible waterfall in the Philippines but it was a known theft spot and we had a rented moped that we couldn't risk the keys getting nicked for. We ended up taking it in turns to swim which was rubbish, so now we always have a little dry bag with us big enough for phones and keys.

I don't know, so many people share the 'nappy tip' that thieves must know that most nappies with people's stuff on beaches are full of keys, wallets and phones.

Huh?

what’s the reason you don’t go?

you can go in your own, I frequently do.