Hi! Welcome to The Beach Read by Bask! For those of you who are new here, this is our regular newsletter filled with interesting tidbits from around the web, travel tips, book recommendations, articles to bookmark for your next beach day, and more. Enjoy!

FROM AROUND THE WEB A troop of Balinese temple monkeys has spent 40 years running a phone-for-ransom racket. Plumbers cracked open a pipe and found an engagement ring lost a decade earlier. A man allegedly used taco seasoning packets to steal $40K from Target. Buffalo Wild Wings made a wing-flavored protein espresso martini, because of course it did. Meet the best-dressed stars of the 2026 Tony Awards. The real breakout star of the World Cup is a duck in a tiny Mexico jersey named Merlín. Every summer shoe worth packing. The Bear comes back June 25 for its fifth and final season (all eight episodes at once). Someone made off with 12 tons of Formula 1–shaped KitKats, and it barely cracks the top five food heists of all time. World Cup tourists seem obsessed with everyday America. A humanoid robot was seen chasing wild boars through Warsaw. Everyone's going to Italy this summer; the ones in the know are skipping Tuscany for Umbria. That "since 1916" hot-dog-contest origin story? A publicist made it up in the '70s. The wild, true story of the only woman who ever made a full-fledged yakuza. The 7 trends defining summer wardrobes (yes, World Cup jerseys count). A family of beavers quietly solved a London Tube station's flooding problem that had stumped engineers for years.

AS SEEN ON IG The Baskmobile has been at (what feels like) non-stop events this month. So many fun stops all around NYC and the Hamptons with partners like Rowing Blazers, Concrete Shoals, Joanna Vargas, Candor Candy, and Blue Mercury. Now off to The Cape & Islands!! See some of our recaps below!

OUR MINERAL SPF GOT AN UPGRADE June was all about giving you more ways to wear mineral sunscreen. This month we welcomed Mineral Spray SPF 50 and Mineral Serum SPF 50 to the Bask lineup, bringing higher SPF options to two of our most-loved formulas. From the silky serum texture to the ultra-fine non-aerosol spray, both were designed to make mineral sunscreen feel effortless, elegant, and easy to wear every single day.

FOUNDER FAVES

Britt

• Newly postpartum me isn't drinking, but I still want the ritual: something pretty in a glass at 6pm. Ghia over ice with soda and an orange peel is the closest thing to a spritz and I love the bitters taste.
• DÔEN has been my summer dress situation for 2 summers now. Easy, beautiful, made well with chic prints and versatile wearability. Worth it in a way fast fashion never is.
• This bag from Clare V. (a bday gift from Mikey!) has survived the beach, the grocery run, and the full diaper-bag era. Holds everything and makes me look like I have it together on the mornings I very much do not. Just packed it for St. Tropez!
• The unofficial uniform of new motherhood is a topknot, and this Emi Jay Big Effing Clip is the only clip that actually holds mine. The beachy summer colorways are worth the splurge.
• Emily Henry is at her best in Great Big Beautiful Life. It's a love story about two writers, a reclusive heiress that you'll finish in a weekend.

Mikey

• I've been through a lot of swimsuits. I keep coming back for Onia's since they're cut right, dry fast, and look like more than you paid. The earthy colors this year are the move; skip anything loud. I've also been loving the Fair Harbor solid color Bungalow shorts. These are my go-to swimsuits.
• A great investment for guys this summer is one good camp-collar shirt you can wear straight off the boat to dinner. Bather nails it without trying too hard.
• The most Miami thing I've started to do is a cafecito at home. A small ceremony that may just be a phase since I'm not really a sugar person. But I feel more connected to the city with the pot on the stove, the smell, and the little pour.
• These Baja Sabahs are kind of weird, but mostly awesome. Hand-stitched leather, broken-in from day one, somehow right with both swim trunks and linen. I have the standard Sabahs in a few colors, but just added these to the mix.
• I just picked up The Wide Wide Sea as my summer nonfiction. Captain Cook's final, fateful voyage before he was killed while attempting to take the Hawaiian King hostage. Looking forward to sinking into it, but the reviews are great. I'll report back.