But when you go on vacation and you walk on the beach, and you are not expecting anything but to have walked on the beach, you are doing something similar.
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It is worth skipping the pricey cruise ship excursions that often take you to the same beach you can get to yourself for half the price.
"We send our clients to Rocka, a very cool beach club where you're getting great food and great cocktails served to you on the beach, " says Paul Irvine at Dehouche.
"In those cases where the destination has overdeveloped, where it has gone over the critical limit of development, one of the only solutions is that you demolish hotels, you create green areas, you rehabilitate the beach areas, you try to bring back some of the biodiversity, " said Dr Tom Selanniemi of the Tour Operators Initiative for Sustainable Tourism Development.
So next time you are on the beach, you could charge your iPhone via sunlight.
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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.
If you are on the beach, sensors may warn you through an app in your mobile device that sharks are lurking just offshore.
And when you look out over this unbelievable beach, one of the things that you can see is that so far at least this beach has not been affected.
"We don't do that in the UK and we don't advise that either, because you would be left with bits of whale over the beach which you've still got to clean up, " said Mr Deaville.
"The whole deal with the preppy summertime lifestyle is that you go right from the beach into cocktail hour or you're on a boat, " he says.
"If you invite the federal government in, they will ultimately decide what you can do with the beach, whether or not you have to build bathrooms, whether you can charge people, " Mr. McDonough said.
If you live near a beach or a lake and enjoy being outdoors, you may want to invest in a metal detector.
Groups of cariocas often sit close to each other so do not be overly concerned if someone parks up next to you on the beach.
Puerto Rico's Vieques island is getting more built up every season, so do not wait another year if you like your beach finds DIY and your resorts small and rustic.
He believes that on the beach you are allowed to stare, as though you were looking not at the person but through the person, past the person at the water, past the water to the horizon, past the horizon into infinity.
When you want to see if a beach resort is worth visiting you can go to TripAdvisor.com.
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Where I grew up in Australia, if you're not at the beach in the summer time, you're in the backyard playing cricket.
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But if you find yourself near Fort Walton Beach this week, and if you should encounter any of the Raiders, you might want to offer them a word of thanks.
There are spring-water showers across the road from the largest part of the beach so you can rinse off.
It is of the two of you, the one time you went to the beach.
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He believes that if you build a fabulous beach resort, even in the center of Vietnam, tourists will come.
Has owning a compact wind turbine freed up time for you to toss a beach ball or play tug-a-war with your children?
What's so sublime about being on a tropical beach where you know nobody is, you can wear your unattractive, black, one-piece YMCA bathing suit with abandon.
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We can send R2D2 to explore it and still keep a whole pile of dough for important and inspiring exploration missions right here on Earth, starting at the beach nearest you.
After a few minutes on the beach, you'll be led up a bluff to see their nesting ground, where the birds often return to the same mate and same nest year after year.
You can wear what you want at the beach, but Brazilians tend to leave their baggy bottoms at home and either don tiny string bikinis or the tight trunks that you have never dared to wear.
You'll pass the small village of Sai Wan where you can refuel with a snack or a drink, but continue along the clearly signposted, paved path until you reach Ham Tin Beach (find step-by-step directions here).
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