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Shibumi Shades are lightweight, portable beach shades designed to be wind-powered. They are easy to set up and offer UPF 50+ sun protection. While more expensive than traditional umbrellas, their ...

Long banned during peak season on Myrtle Beach’s prized sands, sun shelters like Shibumi beach shades could finally be allowed — at least on a trial basis. Over suggestions by city police and fire ...

Just off Access 29 in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, Sandra Parker and her sisters hid from the smoldering sun. Years back, Parker’s husband had injured his head on a broken metal rod from a ...

Our biggest, boldest, baddest piece of beach gear, however, arrived only last summer like a majestic turquoise angel. We got the Shibumi, a roughly 16-by-8-foot rectangle made of parachute fabric that ...

Patches of brilliant turquoise and rich royal blue sprawl along Kure Beach, my one-traffic-light town on the southeastern tip of North Carolina. Though you'll notice these colors in the rolling ...

Thomas Blackburn looks forward to his family’s weeklong beach vacation at the Isle of Palms every year. He has been coming to the South Carolina barrier island since he was a child. Now a father with ...

Update, April 2021 :The Shibumi Shade is now sold in more than two dozen retail stores along the coast from Virginia Beach, Va., to St. Augustine, Fla. Locations are listed on the company’s website.

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