Do you know where you are going to be staying? I’ve spent many a week in Bethany Beach. Is it the condo place—Beach Colony or Bay Colony or something?
If you want food, you’d best head up the road to Rehoboth. I think there’s a place called “The Back Porch,” which I’ve eaten at a couple of times. The first time it was really good. The second time, no so much. Just North of Bethany, on rt 1, there’s a fish place on the bay side of the road. I think it’s called the Blue Crab, or something like that. They have good food.
If you do go down to Ocean City, MD, there are a few nice places, but it’s mostly touristy kitch, and it’s hard to find the few decent restaurants. I’ve eaten at a couple on the bay—the food is passable, but it’s really aimed at a less sophisticated crowd. It depends on your tastes, I guess. I’m not a big fan of OC.
OC does have a lot of beachy stuff. I don’t know if the boardwalk businesses are still active, but the Southern end has all the standard amusements for a beach—carnival rides, Kandy Korn, Pizza, salt water taffy, and the like. You can get some of that in Bethany, but Bethany is more a family oriented place—beach houses mostly, except for the condo development.
For fun—the beaches are supposed to be great this time of year. The water is still warm enough to swim in, but the crowds are gone. The Delaware National Seashore is just North of Bethany, and there are several places to park and get to the beach. North of Rehoboth, you can get to the Cape Henlopen National Park, which has bike trails and walking trails, and really high dunes and two different kinds of beaches—one on the ocean and the other on the bay. The ocean beach has the biggest waves that I’ve seen on that coast.
You should also go to Lewes (pronounced Lewis). It’s a quaint town with several nice restaurants. The Lewes—Cape May ferry docks there, and that can be fun to watch. If you’re into it, you can take the ferry over to Cape May.
If you are staying at a house and cooking for yourself, you’ll want to go inland (rt 26) to find supermarkets. Shore Foods is ok for oj and milk and beach chairs and such, but you wouldn’t want to go there for much more. Also inland, you can find Mennonite furniture shops and such. If you go across the peninsula into Maryland, you can explore the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. Just drive around. You’ll find all kinds of interesting things, and beautiful little towns.
There is a coffee shop in a little shopping complex a block towards the shore from the intersection of 26 and rt 1. If it’s closed, it has a sister shop a mile or so West on rt 26 in another small shopping complex. There is a restaurant on the beach in Bethany—a kind of two story, pseudo upscale place. It might be nicer now there are not so many people, but the food looks pretentious. It’s the kind of place you go to sit upstairs on the deck, drink beach drinks, and watch the ocean. Not a great food place, I think.
If you have bikes, bring them. There are bike paths all along rt 1, and they are paved so that if you’re into roller blading, it’s good for that, too. Of course, you can buy a kite, or just hang out on the beach and build sand castles and such. That’s what most people do in a beach town like that.
I’d be curious to know where you’re staying, if you feel like letting me know.
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