110 Best Beach Instagram Captions for Your Sunny Shots in the Sand

Summer is the season of photos. After a long winter indoors, you'll find yourself going on vacation with the kids, having sunset dinners with friends and finally, hitting the beach. So naturally, all of your sun-filled photos spent in the sand and sea call for the perfect Instagram caption.

Now, there are a lot of ways to go about picking the best beach Instagram caption. For starters, you can go with one that's travel-inspired if you've decided to hit the road this season. You could also try a short but sweet summer quote from one of your favorite celebrities and authors. Or, you can get very specific if you happen to be spending a holiday, say like the Fourth of July, by the ocean.

Luckily, we've got all the inspiration you need, regardless of which way you want to go. Check out this collection of beach sayings, pun-tacular phrases and summer-inspired captions that will elevate your photos, no fancy filter required.

• 99 problems but a beach ain’t one!
• Don’t be crabby!
• Summertime PSA: SPF’s your BFF.
• Tropic like it’s hot.
• Shell yeah!
• Eat, beach, sleep, repeat.
• It’s a hard-knock life.
• The only BS I need is beach & sandals!
• Letting my worries wash out with the tide.
• Beach, please!
• Life's a beach!
• I'm done adulting. Let's be mermaids!
• Girls just wanna have sun.
• Call me on my shellphone.
• A change in latitude would help my attitude.
• No one likes a shady beach.
• Beach vibes only.
• Everyone should believe in something. I believe I'll go to the beach.
• Gone to the beach. Back never.
• How to get a beach body: Step 1: Have a body. Step 2: Go to the beach.
• Nama'stay at the beach.
• Resting beach face.
• Shell-abrate good times, come on!
• Sun of a beach!
• The beach gives me porpoise.
• Feeling fin-tastic.
• Talk to the sand.
• Beach to you it.
• I'm getting some beach therapy.
• Hanging with my gull-friends.

• Long time no sea.
• Vacation mode: activated.
• Whatever floats your boat.
• Sunny skies and butterflies.
• Soaking up the summer sun.
• Lost at sea? I’m not shore.
• Forget the glass slippers. This princess wears flippers.
• You can find me under the palm trees.
• Happiness is the sunset and the seashore.
• A swimsuit a day keeps the winter away!
• The beach and I have a sun-derstanding!
• Having a whale of a time.
• Happy as a clam.
• A good beach day keeps the doctor away.
• Keep calm and go to the beach.
• Life takes you down many paths, but the best ones lead to the beach.
• The beach is calling and I must go.
• Memories are made in flip-flops.
• All I need is a good dose of vitamin sea.
• Home is where the anchor drops.
• Good times and tan lines.
• When in doubt, paddle out.
• Sandy toes, freckled nose.
• Drown out pier pressure.
• Don't worry, beach happy.
• Happiness comes in waves.
• I can sea clearly now.
• We mermaid for each other.
• You're the piña to my colada.
• Happier than a seagull with a French fry.

• The ocean's roar is music to the soul.
• Saltwater cures all wounds.
• You can find me where the sand meets the water.
• Let the sea set you free.
• If there's a will, there's a wave.
• Nothing soothes the soul like a day by the water.
• Me and the ocean: Love at first sight.
• You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to leave the shore.
• We dream in colors borrowed from the sea.
• Dear ocean, Thank you for making us feel tiny, salty, humble and inspired, all at once.
• Keep palm and carry on.
• The ocean breeze sets my mind at ease.
• High tides and good vibes.
• I love you to the sand bar and back.
• The days are long, but the years are short.
• Seashells are love letters in the sand.

• Sunkissed
• Golden
• Thalassophile
• Coastal
• Oceanfront
• Seaside
• Shore
• Tide
• Currents
• Underwater
• Coral
• Peaceful
• Paradise

• "I'm gonna soak up the sun." — Sheryl Crow
• "Meet me where the sky touches the sea." — Jennifer Donnelly
  
• "The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul."— Robert Wyland
  
• "We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came."— John F. Kennedy
  
• "I followed my heart and it led me to the beach." — Anonymous
• "Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya."— The Beach Boys
• "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." — Jacques Yves Cousteau
• "To escape and sit quietly on the beach — that’s my idea of paradise." — Emilia Wickstead
  
• "On the beach, you can live in bliss." — Dennis Wilson
  
• "If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it." — Jimmy Buffett
  
• "The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective." — Beyoncé
  
• "The waves of the sea help me get back to me." —Jill Davis
  
• "You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean." — Mitch Albom
  
• "There's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away." — Sarah Kay
  
• "At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun." — Sandy Gingras
  
• "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this." – Susan Branch
• "Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly." — Van Morrison
  
• "In summer, the song sings itself." — William Carlos Williams
• "A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in." — Robert Orben
  
• "If you're not barefoot, then you're overdressed." — Anonymous

Lizz Schumer

Senior Editor

Lizz (she/her) is a senior editor at Good Housekeeping, where she runs the GH Book Club, edits essays and long-form features and writes about pets, books and lifestyle topics. A journalist for almost two decades, she is the author of Biography of a Body and Buffalo Steel. She also teaches journalism as an adjunct professor at New York University's School of Professional Studies and creative nonfiction at the Muse Writing Center, and coaches with the New York Writing Room.