Chesapeake Beach, Virginia
Chesapeake Beach and Chicks Beach are a stretch of beaches running about two miles from the Lynnhaven Inlet to just west of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. The area began in the early 1900s as a beachfront, residential community. It is a diverse area consisting of beach cottages, condominiums, townhouses, duplexes, apartments, and single-family homes. The neighborhoods of Baylake Pines and Baylake Beach hug the east side of the community. The beach community is bordered on the north by Shore Drive. Shore Drive is one of the corridors leading to the tourist destination of the Virginia Beach oceanfront and is currently undergoing many improvements to the biking and jogging trails. Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base caps the west side of this community, merging longer stretches of undeveloped, protected beaches which harbor dolphin and other marine life.
The residents of this community enjoy less public traffic due to restricted parking and private beach postings. The favorite activities of these neighborhoods include boating the four lakes winding through the area, jet skiing, kayaking, and sailing on the Bay, and the kids engage hours of skim-boarding and sand-dune creating. More local information including low-tide reports: [1]