Bernadeet Beach

**Bernadeet Beach**, known by locals or some as just Bernadeet, is a coastal resort town located in the southeastern portion of The Royal North with a population of just 80,540 but with up to 5 million visitors per year. The city is known for exceptionally large, picturesque and touristic beaches with the most notable being St. Bernadeet Beach with a large reputation of being very busy, an average of up to 35,000 can visit the beach a day with busiest times being in July or on holidays such as Christmas Day and New Year's Day, the busiest record was on December 25th, 2019 with an estimated 52,000 individuals visiting that day. The beach is 1.5 km long and despite its quite small size to fit up to 35,000 people, it supposedly can fit that much. With more people visiting the beach means more lifeguards, up to 200 lifeguards are working a day in the beach and patrol each section of the 1.5 km long beach. Some people nickname the city Berny.

## Geography

**Bernadeet Beach** is about an hour east of Hustlekeep and is located at the exact same latitude as the major city; many people in Hustlekeep go to Bernadeet for holiday or a day-trip, some to retire. The city itself is known almost entirely of the beach, but also for its unique charming gift shops and recreational activities on and off the boardwalk. The neighborhoods are located mainly off the coast including the infamous Eudolice District located directly beside the beach, about 33.0% of the total population (26,578) live in the large district and 31.0% of the neighborhood's population are families (8,329 peoples). The iconic Lady of the Sea Hotel with an average of up to 800,000 guests per year staying in the grand hotel with around 1,000 rooms and is likely popular as it is directly next to the beach in the Eudolice District. The city is very sunny with an average of 325 days of sun per year with most rain occuring in the months of winter and fall, but being so close to the sea can greet wind that can chill the air. Plants such as coyote brushes, sagebrushes, and tanoak are the most common native plants in the city, others are coast live oaks and weeping willows. Along the coastline; fan and date palms are incredibly common but are usually all cultivated but can be considered an icon for Bernadeet. The Eudolice District has many cultivated populations of callery pears, wisteria, sassafras and northern red oaks which can then lure in wildlife. Common wildlife include over five species of gulls, haunting crows, great blue herons, toads, newts, bullfrogs and deer. Despite Chuliana having an incredibly scarce population of them, Bernadeet has a very common and large population red foxes; but all are introduced, up to 23 foxes per square kilometer are in the city making them an incredibly common sight, much to the dismay of many's small dogs and cats. While they don't come into the same league as those in the West, Bernadeet has some of the highest fox densities in Parania and the most in Chuliana and are mainly concentrated in the Eudolice District where they are commonly found resting under shady and large trees. Coyotes, jackrabbits, skunks, and porcupines are absent from the city and stay more prevalent up in the Hustlekeep area; but squirrels are incredibly common in the city and are most concentrated in Eudolice where they rest in the large deciduous trees. Though exact populations are unknown, up to 2,000 foxes can be spotted in the city and surrounding areas.

The city is the closest major city to regions of Talim north of Kutwhe's Cailoon region.

## Demographics

Bernadeet has 80,540 residents with 33% residing in its most populous and popular residential neighborhood of Eudolice and 66% residing elsewhere in the town, but up to 5 million people visit the town a year, over 50% of the tourists are Asian, with most being from Kutwhe, Mako Mako, Orchid Isle and the Marima Islands and 25% being Hispanic. 13% are African and 12% are Caucasian. Bernadeet is a popular retirement town with about 28% of the total resident population being over the age of 60 and 72% being below 60, the median age for the city is 30. The city is 59.3% Caucasian; most having British and Irish roots, 40.7% of the population were apart of a visible minority group; 32.0% are Asian, 7.6% are Hispanic, and 1.2% were other races. About 20.3% of the population are two or more races or biracial. The city is 63.4% irreligious and 36.6% religious of some sort, most likely being Christian, but with a high Asian population, Buddhism and Jainism may also spike up there alongside Christianity.