Dr Beach’s Top 10 Beaches List Exposed
Each year Dr. Steven Letherman, “Dr. Beach,” releases his list of the “Top Ten Beaches” in the US. 2008’s press release just arrived. Caladesi Island State Park, Dunedin/Clearwater, Florida was named #1. Only two beaches from Hawaii even made the list. We wondered why?
Then we came across this article on HawaiiMagazine.com which answered the question. It seems Dr. Beach excludes from his list any previous winner. Since the list has been published for 17 years, that means 17 beaches have been excluded from consideration.
Dr. Beach’s press release says nothing about this, but after a little poking around on his website we found this page which lists the winners along with the small print. A quick look at the previous 17 winners shows 11 of them were in Hawaii and have been excluded from consideration.
The HawaiiMagazine.Com article summed it up this way:
So OK, Dr. Beach. We get it. You retired these fine beaches because otherwise Hawaii would be No. 1 pretty much every year.
Kind of makes the list less useful, though, don’t cha think Doc?
We couldn’t agree more. We won’t be using it as a reference in our articles anymore.
Photo: Kaanapali Beach, Maui, the 2003 winner
