The white sand beach faces a small, lagoon-style bay that's great for swimming.

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Which it does: serene views of Little Narragansett Bay and Block Island Sound, spotless white-sand beaches, and a newly rebuilt, grand inn atop a scenic bluff, the Ocean House, which for decades had stood as a neglected sentinel, a reminder of grander times past.

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Byron Bay is one of a great string of headlands with white-sand bays stretching up the New South Wales coast into Queensland.

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