A Commonplace Book

Category: beaches and seashores...

  • The seashore is a most advantageous point from which to comprehend the world. (H.D. Thoreau)
  • Seychelles' pale pink sands sparkling against a backdrop of towering granite boulders, next to turquoise water
  • Your dream beach trip, including swimming among tropical fish
  • isolated white sandy shores with a quiet atmosphere
  • the unspoiled shoreline from Southampton to Montauk, windswept dunes and waving grasses
  • Hawaii's scenic beaches protected by coral reefs
  • the calcium carbonate remains of coral reefs adding a pink hue to finely pulverized sand
  • the beaches of Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket
  • riding boogie boards and surfboards
  • collecting exotic shells
  • people getting married on the beach
  • napping on the beach and waking up tanned
  • living in a beach house with sand for a front yard
  • a vacation on the beach, reading all the books or magazines you have saved up
  • sand the consistency of confectioner's sugar
  • a month in a stone house on the beach of a Greek island
  • volunteering for a beach cleanup
  • the dolphins of Cape Hatteras National Seashore
  • standing on the shore and roaring back at the ocean as loud as you can

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