Right there with you! We have a cold, fresh water, brisk, stream (Pensacola Branch), white sand, about 10 feet below our property line, that we call our own "beach". (About 1 to 2 feet deep) We thinks it's great!Raccoons are my #1 ground predator fear.
However, you can't help notice the coon and deer tracks one week to another. DH bought me a game cam for Christmas, so we could monitor the coon intruders around the coop.