The STENCH

Awful. I wish there was a No Bones rating available. $7 to park. When we approached the walkway over the dunes to the beach---I noticed it right away. Strong, pungent odor of dog feces. It was so strong---I thought MY dog had had an accident and I inadvertently stepped in it somehow. That's how bad it was. By the time we got to the beach...it was making me sick to my stomach. I put on my mask. Still could not filter it out. We walked about 1/4 mile down the beach---I couldn't get away from it. I thought it was my dog! I rushed him to the water and washed him down. Nope. Not him. Laid a blanket down and sat---with my full N95 mask on (I'm a Nurse)---and literally had to breathe through my mouth because of the STENCH of dog feces.

It was the worst. We drove from Roanoke to First Landing just to go to this wonderful 5 bones park! Yeah. We stayed for 20 minutes and left before I puked from the smell. What a trashy place. Humans on this beach clearly bury the feces instead of walking the poop to the garbage bins---like someone here already said... It was just no fun having to walk with a bag of poop! Whine Whine Whine....well then don't bring a dog to a big giant litterbox and expect them to not defecate.

Filthy, garbage strewn beach---bits of plastic, hair ties, garbage bags, cups...nobody cleaning a thing and the STENCH was overwhelming.

Virginia Beach seems to have literally turned into a garbage pile. This isn't what I remember from 20 years ago--and I certainly will never visit there again.

Sep. 10, 2020