I grew up in a relatively small town on the Gulf Coast of Florida. It was a typical beach town with a large tourist population in winter. My friends and family spent most of our time swimming at the beach. Fridays and Saturdays were typically spent at friend's houses, going to the mall or movies and on Sundays we would go to the beach with my family then come home and have pot roast for dinner. My favorite beach was Venice Beach, approximately a half hour away. Venice Beach is known as the shark tooth capital of the world and we would spend the entire day looking for shark teeth. After hurricanes we could find thousands of sand dollars and would throw them back in the water hoping they could survive. Beaches were the most common