Bush surrounds meet enviable beach stretches with rock pools aplenty (keeping kids amused for hours).
Backing vocals are taken from the Beach Boys school of rock, sung in carefully orchestrated group harmony.
The name Elephant Rock, which refers to an elephant-shaped rock on the beach, came from actress Mary Astor when she bought the house in 1960.
Lee was discovered several hours later sitting on a small rock ledge 10ft above the beach with the dog.
Once you plunge in you find sections that alternate between slow streams where you can beach yourself against a flat half-submerged rock, and fast currents of waterslide fun.
Dangling like a raindrop from Africa's rock bottom, the city is all beach, barbecue and beautiful people.
Beachrock: ledges of rock formed within the body of the beach consisting of sand grains cemented by calcium carbonate and formed by chemical processes.
At Deal, a new 400m wall has been built either side of the pier designed to reduce the power of the waves, further north a rock barrier has been built and the beach has been strengthened with tonnes of shingle.
The church sits in the shadow of Mesa Vouno, a gigantic rock that dominates the northern edge of the beach.
There's plenty on offer for the more traditional naturalist too with a panel of experts on hand to help identify that fearsome spider you've cornered in a matchbox, the interesting rock or fossil you picked up on the beach, or potential meteorite that's been sitting on the mantle piece.
Four of the options involve replenishing the beach and installing different combinations of groynes or, in one case, a rock revetment.
The villas' greatest amenity, however, is their proximity to Eden Rock itself, built atop a craggy promontory rising out of the beach just a few feet away.
When Cold Chisel's Jimmy Barnes sang about pushing surfboards through turnstiles in Misfits, or Midnight Oil's Peter Garret howled "catch the bus to Bondi, sit on the beach and wonder", they were not only conjuring a scene familiar to their '80s pub rock audience but more importantly, they captured a uniquely sunlit Australian branch of angst.
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