They scuba dived in the morning, played on the beach in the afternoon and had drinks on the deserted beach at night.

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Romance, a deserted beach, a beach party or child-friendly travel?

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And I do fantasize about filing my blogs from some Windows 8 lap-tablet while on some deserted beach, sipping a fruity cocktail with a little paper umbrella in it.

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Stepping onto the white sands of the deserted beach, crunchy with fragments of seashell, I get an inkling of what New Zealand's first European settlers must have felt when they arrived in this tropical Eden.

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As I paddle out into the surf on a crystal clear California morning, brown pelicans swoop low over the ocean, and a flock of seagulls of Hitchcockian proportions soar above a deserted beach where a harbor seal lolls in the sunshine.

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Circumstances conspire to place a seriously wounded Tristan on a deserted Irish beach, where Isolde secretly nurses him back to health without revealing her royal status.

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Ringed in white stone beaches, the island has numerous deserted coves, a small, fully equipped, modern marina, a handful of seaside restaurants and one very cool beach bar.

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