The gray and colorless ocean floor.

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The UK book launch was attended by Dr Wendy Watson-Wright, IOC Executive Secretary and IOC Assistant Director-General of UNESCO who also gave the IMarEST Stanley Gray Lecture on 'The challenge of ocean governance: An IOC perspective'.

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Atop a bluff and offering nose-bleed views of the major highway for gray whales -- aka the Pacific Ocean -- is this Cape Cod-style seaside estate from 1901, with slatted ceilings, vintage photographs, and piles of firewood near the basement.

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Unlike KPL and Sonora, where you fish in protected passages, here you cruise right out past the gray whales lollygagging in Cow Bay and into the open ocean.

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"We built the house so you can see the ocean from any point, " says Eleanore, a trim, active woman whose gray bob neatly frames her ready smile.

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