Ohh, the beach. Sunshine, sand between your toes, and volleyball. When it’s gray, cold, and rainy outside in the Seattle area, sometimes you just need a break. Sometimes the best thing you can do is grab your gym bag, pack your shorts and your favorite T-shirt, and leave your sneakers behind.
4th Ave. Beach is Seattle’s largest indoor beach volleyball center. It’s the brainchild of Matt Merry and Serena Ho. All you really need is a very large building with high ceilings, flat open floors, and about 2 million pounds of sand.
Lots of fun with your toes in the sand
In the Seattle area, there is a vibrant community of beach volleyball enthusiasts that play all spring and summer long. But when fall and winter comes and the skies turn Gray, they need to have some place to go and that’s what 4th Ave. Beach is all about.
According to Seattletimes.com,‘ The creamy sand was brought in from Wisconsin, carefully selected for its softness, cleanliness and lack of dust. The temperature and color of the lights was chosen to match daylight as closely as possible, and the ones on the ceiling are offset so that players looking up to find or serve the ball don’t stare directly into a lamp. Games are played barefoot, the sand kept punctiliously clean and rakes are provided to encourage players to courteously comb their own sand before and after play.’…