The year-round warm temperatures draw visitors from around the world to our miles of golden, sandy beaches.
Bigbury beach in south Devon is one of the region's largest sandy beaches, said the agents selling it.
This Southern California city has all the Pacific Coast perks: coastal living, sparkling weather, temperate climate, ocean views and golden sandy beaches.
So baby sea turtles get out of the nest on sandy beaches and try to make their way into the sea.
Paddlers pass sandy beaches, protected wilderness areas where ospreys and eagles roam and a blue heron rookery with upwards of 50 nests.
Cornwall, in southwest England, has long besotted visitors with its historic port villages, broad sandy beaches, high cliffs and secret coves that were once used by smugglers.
More than merely a vacation spot, the Cape Cod hamlet of Hyannisport (aka Hyannis Port) offers squawking seagulls, sandy beaches and a very rich history.
Despite the influx of daytrippers, the island of Porquerolles is wholly unspoilt: most of its white sandy beaches and pine woods are protected by the Parc National de Port-Cros.
The small surf town of Cayucos has remained miraculously immune to over-development for decades, despite its great wines to the east and white sandy beaches to the west.
The second-largest island in the Mediterranean is blessed with more than 1, 000 miles of coast, and sandy beaches that invite nothing more strenuous than bouts of paddling interspersed with lots of basking.
Hiking among the high peaks and mossy forests is the main activity on Yakushima, but the island is also home to some excellent coastal onsen and a few sandy beaches.
On any other warm summer day, the white sandy beaches here around Jieh - a resort town about 15 miles south of Beirut - would be packed with sun worshippers.
The wellbeing of Lebanon's economy depends greatly on the travel and tourism industry which contributes 11% of the GDP thanks to the country's sandy beaches, snowy peaks and vibrant nightlife.
The tourist nation -- whose white sandy beaches lure well-heeled Westerners -- wants to set aside part of its annual billion-dollar revenue into buying a new homeland, he said at the time.
Within 20 minutes lay several sandy beaches on the Ionian Sea, there are two 18-hole golf courses nearby, and the region is teeming with historic sighs, from ancient Greek ruins to Neolithic cave dwellings.
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In addition to the bike paths and sandy beaches, the Cape Cod village offers a host of internationally acclaimed facilities, among them the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Woods Hole Science Aquarium, the National Academy of Sciences conference center and the Marine Biological Lab.
You'll dodge rockets in industrial moon colonies, score head shots on sandy alien beaches, and even hunt down hard-to-find body armor in an underwater super-structure.
Aside from its sandy white beaches that draw big tourism dollars for the Kenyan economy, Mombasa features a large port that is used for transportation by neighboring landlocked countries.
For soft, sandy public beaches, the neighbouring towns of Antibes and Juan Les Pins, 20km to 26km southwest of Nice, have some of the best in the area and both are accessible by train or bus.
They focus instead on the island's 100km (60 miles) of sandy, mostly undeveloped, shoreline, hoping it has the same pulling power as the beaches of Hainan, a (much larger) tropical island off the southern coast that has become the playground of China's rich.
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