I prefer sand to pebbles. what's awesome, tho, is when ur at Sea Isle 4 the 4th, they do all of the rockets in Ocean City, only, like, two miles away, and you can see the blasts of light exploding in the midnight abyss, and you feel whole, like something has been missing in your life and now you are complete. and then my cousins and I gather all of the little fire crackers, go into a vacant parking lot next to our beach house, and launch a bunch of stuff. it's amazing.