| Relaxing on the beach and watching the sunset is one of life's simple pleasures. |
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| Our brief trip to the beach was a much-needed oasis in a summer of hard work. |
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| Allied fire support was grossly inadequate and the raiding force was largely trapped on the beach by obstacles and German fire. |
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| Two of those sank in deep water, and 12 more became bogged down in the soft shingle beach. |
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| Kenneth Anderson's 1940s John Deere Model H could also double as a beach hut or lifeguard stand. |
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| The German architect Rudolph Schindler also contributed to American modernism with his design for the Lovell beach house in Newport Beach. |
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| Some people believe that the ghost of an old sea captain haunts the beach. |
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| Near the beach side of the area, there are the remains of a tower built by Ptolemy II Philadelphus. |
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| Tourism in Bangladesh is a developing sector, with the beach resort town of Cox's Bazar being the center of the industry. |
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| He would typically take a postmeridian stroll along the beach. |
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| Surrounded by marshes, Dunkirk boasted old fortifications and the longest sand beach in Europe, where large groups could assemble. |
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| Beach huts, owned or leased, are not habitable but can be used as a shelter and changing room on the beach. |
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| During the later 19th century, Dieppe became popular with English artists as a beach resort. |
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| When Flora translates her mother's wishes, he initially refuses, but the three ultimately spend the day on the beach with Ada playing music. |
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| They also started clearing the draws of enemy defences so that vehicles could move off the beach. |
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| The marina, first French port of call, extends beyond the Plage Verte, old beach redeveloped into lawn after the creation of the port. |
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| In spite of these difficulties, the Canadians quickly cleared the beach and created two exits to the villages above. |
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| He left his cell phone behind and enjoyed a carefree summer day at the beach. |
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| As a result, prevailing overcast skies limited Allied air support, and no serious damage would be done to the beach defences on Omaha and Juno. |
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| Local commanders also seemed incapable of the task of fighting an aggressive defense on the beach, as Rommel had envisioned. |
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| A swimming beach known as Sandways lies a short walk out of the village across the rocks towards Fort Picklecombe. |
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| Mr Middleton said that the environmental sensitivities in the Lyme Bay area were fully assessed before the decision to beach Napoli was made. |
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| Aside from the main salvage operation of Napoli, a local salvage firm was appointed to clear up the beach and remove the containers and flotsam. |
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| Others claimed that removing the flotsam contributed to the cleanup of Branscombe beach. |
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| The agency said people taking goods would now be asked to deliver the items to the acting Receiver of Wreck on the beach. |
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| This effectively meant that no further items could legally be removed from the beach. |
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| At the same time the salvage firm erected fences on the beach to prevent public access. |
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| Volk's Electric Railway runs along the inland edge of the beach from Brighton Pier to Black Rock and Brighton Marina. |
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| The area covered by the designation comprises the land between the mean low water mark and the top of the cliffs or the back of the beach. |
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| There is also an from time to time a beach soccer competition in a temporary stadium on imported sand on the beach. |
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| The footprints were found in sediment, partially covered by beach sand, at low tide on the foreshore at Happisburgh. |
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| The beach encloses an intertidal lagoon which is an internationally important Ramsar Convention site known for its biodiversity. |
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| As the shoreline is subject to severe coastal erosion, new material is constantly being exposed along the cliffs and on the beach. |
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| In January 1877, a great storm swept huge ironstone slabs from the sea bed onto Happisburgh beach. |
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| In 2000, a black flint handaxe, dating to between 600,000 and 800,000 years ago, was found by a man walking on the beach. |
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| The entire beach was my backyard, from the Hiltons' house in the south all the way to Steele Hunter's house in the north. |
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| Long stretches of beach, sand dunes, marshes, and maritime forests create a unique environment where wind and waves shape the topography. |
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| A midden, by definition, contains the debris of human activity, and should not be confused with wind or tide created beach mounds. |
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| One must exercise caution in deciding whether one is examining a midden or a beach mound. |
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| Grey rhebok are less commonly seen and are scarce, but may be observed along the beach hills at Olifantsbos. |
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| Types of placer deposits include alluvium, eluvium, beach placers, and paleoplacers. |
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| Down the beach, a group of mergirls and boys were facing off with the same merprince who'd spoken through the mirror. |
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| Two days after the purchase while trotting the horse on Southport beach, McCain noticed that Red Rum appeared lame. |
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| Australia is chocker with beaches strait from paradise, and Terrigal is a beach holiday mecca? I'm gobsmacked. |
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| Marina DeBris is an artist focusing most of her recent work on educating people about beach trash. |
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| Truro's bayside beaches used to be a petrified forest, before it became a beach. |
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| The beach below the bluffs where his station was located is now called Marconi Beach. |
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| The coast between Cabo Falso Bojador and Cabo Bojador, 10 miles SW, consists of a sandy beach fringed by rocks. |
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| She remembered the times they had swum at Eleni beach totally naked, the moon and stars lighting the little waves as they rolled slowly to shore. |
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| Some examples include airports, diving sites, popular beach sites, marinas, natural reserves or marine sanctuaries. |
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| The first two lifeboats were kept in a boathouse on the town beach at Hugh Town. |
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| Despite this, the territory's most popular beach still has no lifeguard presence. |
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| It is also close to the original abbey ruins, is near a fresh water pool and overlooks the sand dunes and beach at Carn Near. |
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| Eventually, when enough sediment has built up, the beach shoreline, known as a spit, will connect with an island and form a tombolo. |
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| Tombolos are more prone to natural fluctuations of profile and area as a result of tidal and weather events than a normal beach is. |
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| At the top of the beach is a small remnant sand dune system with the grassy area behind used for boat standing and repairs. |
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| Below the gardens was a private beach, where the Queen kept her own private bathing machine. |
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| As a Millerite living within one block from the beach, Miller Beach is truly a hidden treasure in Northwest Indiana. |
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| It had also become a popular site for sea bathing by the 1760s, despite the lack of a good quality beach. |
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| In May 2013, fossilized human footprints were found in newly uncovered sediment on a beach in Happisburgh, Norfolk. |
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| This would improve the visibility of obstacles on the beach, while minimising the amount of time the men would be exposed in the open. |
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| Peggotty, lives in a house built in an upturned boat on the beach, with his adopted relatives Emily and Ham, and an elderly widow, Mrs. |
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| Compton bay and beach are popular with surfers due to waves that come across the Atlantic. |
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| The lane comes to an end at the beach, where Bembridge Lifeboat station and the Bembridge Coast Hotel are situated. |
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| After a long day at the beach, our toddler had a major meltdown in the car on the way home. |
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| High in the Andes he saw seashells, and several fossil trees that had grown on a sand beach. |
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| From each developer berth, the subsea cables follow back along the seabed and then pass under the beach and into an onshore substation. |
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| A major storm battered the Normandy coast from 19 to 22 June, which would have made the beach landings impossible. |
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| Concerned about inflicting casualties on their own troops, many bombers delayed their attacks too long and failed to hit the beach defences. |
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| Omaha, the most heavily defended beach, was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division and 29th Infantry Division. |
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| Some tanks, disabled on the beach, continued to provide covering fire until their ammunition ran out or they were swamped by the rising tide. |
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| Exit from the beach was possible only via five heavily defended gullies, and by late morning barely 600 men had reached the higher ground. |
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| They also started clearing the gullies of enemy defences so that vehicles could move off the beach. |
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| The beach and nearby streets were clogged with traffic for most of the day, making it difficult to move inland. |
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| The beach was heavily mined and peppered with obstacles, making the work of the beach clearing teams difficult and dangerous. |
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| At Omaha Beach, parts of the Mulberry harbour are still visible, and a few of the beach obstacles remain. |
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| The Royal Marines of 40 Commando had the advantage of being supported by Centurion tanks as they landed on Sierra Red beach. |
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| King's Cave on the south west coast is an example of an emergent landform on such a raised beach. |
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| It is a public property and possible to walk the full length of the beach, past all the hotels, resorts, and public beach bars. |
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| Other organised sports leagues include softball, beach volleyball, Gaelic football and ultimate frisbee. |
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| Installed in a stark London gallery, Emin's work symbolized the beach hut as icon of the seaside. |
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| They were told that they had to get their men off ship and onto the beach as soon as possible as the ships were vulnerable to enemy aircraft. |
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| She sobbed herself to sleep and then dreamed she was walking on a beach on a moonful night, a strange but distantly known city on the horizon. |
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| Barra's airport is claimed to be the only one in the world to have scheduled flights landing on a beach. |
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| The remains of 350 men, women and children were buried in the dunes behind the beach and a small cairn and monument marks the site. |
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| He records that he went down to a nearby beach and, leaving a note with his clothes, walked out to sea. |
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| Another instance is the removal of her beach hut from Whitstable to be displayed in a gallery. |
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| Shoreline lakes are generally lakes created by blockage of estuaries or by the uneven accretion of beach ridges by longshore and other currents. |
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| The suburban sprawl observed in Tijuana leaves the downtown and beach areas relatively affluent. |
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| Will Rogers State Beach is a cruisy gay beach, always lots of people and lots of fun. |
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| The small shell fragments are blown up the beach to form hillocks, which are then blown inland. |
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| Duned coasts appear where sand accumulates on a beach faster than the waves can move the material alongshore. |
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| In the mornings a strange dyky-looking fortyish woman lies on the beach but does not appear to belong to the hotel. |
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| Daylight was fading quickly, but I was still keen to have a little explore of the town and beach. |
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| The village has a sandy beach, which was awarded the Blue flag rural beach award in 2005, and is on the Anglesey Coastal Path. |
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| The village was founded around the harbour and shipbuilding industry, but is now best known as a seaside resort with a high quality beach. |
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| For something less revealing this summer, take a look at the face-kini, the ultimate alternative to slathering on sunblock on trips to the beach. |
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| The retail and residential section of Doc Fictoria is built directly beside a Blue Flag beach marina. |
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| Others made a nightly trek to nearby rural areas, sleeping in tents, cars or even on the beach. |
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| It has been described as the best surfing beach in Pembrokeshire and one of the best tourist beaches in the world. |
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| A large quantity of gold was said to have been thrown up on the beach at Porth Alerth, with some families becoming rich overnight. |
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| Orcas and bottlenose dolphins have also been known to drive their prey onto a beach to feed on it, a behaviour known as beach or strand feeding. |
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| This is accomplished by driving a pod together with boats and usually into a bay or onto a beach. |
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| In addition to such endeavors, the individuals swim with and surface near surfers at the beach. |
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| You shouldn't get too anxious about your vacation next month. The beach is not going anywhere. |
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| A beach of sand, shingle and rock curves two miles between the headlands of the Great Orme and the Little Orme. |
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| Who wants to nag, if you can go to the beach and eat a Gatsby with smoked salmon and cream cheese? |
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| A day at the beach is the best way to spend a weekend, no two ways about it. |
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| Oxwich Bay ends in the large wooded promontory of Oxwich Point, which leads west to the beach front villages of Horton and Port Eynon. |
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| Earlier, 250 more had flown to Rattray beach, nearly all pinkfeet although I saw four greylags and heard others. |
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| Leisure activities available in the county include beach activities, rambling, cycling, sea fishing, canoeing, sailing and horse riding. |
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| Other seaweed may be used as fertilizer, compost for landscaping, or a means of combating beach erosion through burial in beach dunes. |
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| The beach looked like a small swatch of an industrial wasteland.... He had promised me a crowd-free break that was off the grid, and here it was. |
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| Some coastal areas have one or more sets of dunes running parallel to the shoreline directly inland from the beach. |
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| They can also originate from beach sands and extend inland into vegetated areas in coastal zones and on shores of large lakes. |
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| Large sculpture by Maggi Hambling titled The Scallop erected in 2003 on the beach at Aldeburgh, England. |
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| Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack. |
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| In 2010, at a New Hampshire beach, pieces of a single dead lion's mane jellyfish stung between 125 and 150 people. |
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| The girl's name was Sherry and she was from England and was staying at the backpackers' near the beach. |
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| The beach of Rantau Abang in Terengganu, Malaysia, once had the largest nesting population in the world, hosting 10,000 nests per year. |
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| While other sea turtle species almost always return to their hatching beach, leatherbacks may choose another beach within the region. |
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| The typical nesting environment includes a dark forested area adjacent to the beach. |
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| The North Sea coast of the United Kingdom has tourist destinations with beach resorts and golf courses. |
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| Mayumba National Park in Gabon, Central Africa, was created to protect Africa's most important nesting beach. |
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| Heading for the ocean on a beach at the Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park. |
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| Let the hellmen down the beach tilt against 100 yards of whitewater trying to paddle out. |
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| Every so often families in bikinis, boardies and sarongs traipse past on their way back from the beach and look in. |
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| During a specific time of year, approximately December to March, these whales beach themselves in high numbers along the coast of New Zealand. |
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| Off the Crozet Islands, mothers push their calves onto the beach, waiting to pull the youngster back if needed. |
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| Oceanic debris tends to accumulate at the center of gyres and coastlines, frequently washing aground where it is known as beach litter. |
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| If a male leaves the beach to feed, he will likely lose mating opportunities and his dominance. |
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| In particular the flat, wide beach at Earnse Bay is popular for this sport. |
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| Oceanic debris tends to accumulate at the centre of gyres and coastlines, frequently washing aground where it is known as beach litter. |
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| The intertidal zone is also a good place to find plant life in the sea, where mangroves or cordgrass or beach grass might grow. |
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| This is accomplished by driving a pod together with boats, usually into a bay or onto a beach. |
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| In the same month, Sardinians stopped the attempted French landing on the beach of Quartu Sant'Elena, near the Capital of Cagliari. |
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| Gearhart is worth taking a bit of time to ogle the highborn homes along the backroads near the beach. |
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| Get your freak on at LA's most hipsterific beach paralleled by the Venice Boardwalk. |
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| Beach sand is also moved on such oblique wind days, due to the swash and backwash of water on the beach. |
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| Thus beach sand can move downbeach in a zig zag fashion many tens of meters per day. |
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| They go to the beach when they should be hitting the books and then they wonder why they get bad grades. |
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| A spit or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores. |
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| The drift occurs due to waves meeting the beach at an oblique angle, moving sediment down the beach in a zigzag pattern. |
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| This is complemented by longshore currents, which further transport sediment through the water alongside the beach. |
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| Prior to the 1950s, the general practice was to use hard structures to protect against beach erosion or storm damages. |
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| Erosion continued, but the structures remained, resulting in a loss of beach area. |
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| Projects attempted to replicate the protective characteristics of natural beach and dune systems. |
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| Beach hogwort and beach primrose probably also contribute to the diet of these birds. |
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| Soft options such as beach nourishment protect coastlines and help to restore the natural dynamism, although they require repeated applications. |
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| However, there is a corresponding loss of beach material on the updrift side, requiring another groyne there. |
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| At Sandwich, Kent the Seabee seawall is buried at the back of the beach under the shingle with crest level at road kerb level. |
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| Revetments are slanted or upright blockades, built parallel to the coast, usually towards the back of the beach to protect the area beyond. |
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| The shoreline is protected by the beach material held behind the barriers, as the revetments trap some of the material. |
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| We found Viri and his friend Miki Aikau, a legendary boardsman, waiting for us on the beach. |
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| My aunt would bring a stack of torrid bodice rippers with her to the beach, and would unfailingly blush if disturbed in her reading. |
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| Stabilising dunes can help protect beaches by catching windblown sand, increasing natural beach formation. |
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| Noticeboards, leaflets and beach wardens explain to visitors how to avoid damaging the area. |
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| Beach drainage or beach face dewatering lowers the water table locally beneath the beach face. |
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| We checked into adjoining rooms in a beach motel near the center of Santa Teresa... The keyboy opened the door between our two rooms. |
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| Ederle walked up the beach at Kingsdown, England after 14 hours and 34 minutes. |
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| Children who have seen a small lake surrounded by a white sand beach have beginning ideas of what lakeness is. |
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| Twenty four beach drainage systems have been installed since 1981 in Denmark, USA, UK, Japan, Spain, Sweden, France, Italy and Malaysia. |
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| The major landmark in Folkestone, apart from the harbour, is the Leas, the cliffs above the beach. |
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| Shorelines are generally derived by interpolating from a series of discrete beach profiles. |
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| It is native to the coastlines of Europe and North Africa where it grows in the sands of beach dunes. |
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| The plant's spread has changed the topography of some California beach ecosystems, especially in sand dunes. |
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| When waves are breaking on a line more or less parallel to the beach, they carry considerable water shoreward. |
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| It is used to refer to going down to sea level, mainly a beach or water mark. |
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| The great majority of large breakers seen at a beach result from distant winds. |
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| Wind wave models are also an important part of examining the impact of shore protection and beach nourishment proposals. |
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| The Leas Lift, a Victorian water lift that opened in 1885, connects the Leas with the beach. |
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| Proceeding from the mouth the estuary inland, there are initially beach sands at the margin, thence shingle beach and mudflats. |
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| The eggs of most gulls and terns are brown with dark splotches, so they are difficult for predators to spot on the beach. |
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| Sometimes there was a false outer keel to take the wear while being dragged up a beach. |
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| Bombies were everywhere, as plentiful as seashells at the beach and sold the same way conch shells are in Florida. |
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| Nourishment gained popularity because it preserved beach resources and avoided the negative effects of hard structures. |
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| During storms, sand from the visible beach submerges to form sand bars that protect the beach. |
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| During calm weather smaller waves return sand from bars to the visible beach surface in a process called accretion. |
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| When not enough sand is available, the beach cannot recover following storms. |
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| An eroded beach with substantial submerged sand surrounding it may recover without nourishment. |
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| Nourishing a beach that has little submerged sand requires understanding of the reason that the submerged sand is missing. |
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| A cannonproof breastwork, built during the previous war, extended along the beach from the hills to the rocks. |
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| Beach Profile Nourishment describes programs that nourish the full beach profile. |
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| While this protects structures, it doesn't protect the beach that is outside the wall. |
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| The beach generally disappears over a period that ranges from months to decades. |
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| Generally a beach is wet during falling tide, because the sea sinks faster than the beach drains. |
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| In many coastal areas, the economic impacts of a wide beach can be substantial. |
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| Prior to nourishment, in many places the beach was too narrow to walk along, especially during high tide. |
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| The setting of a beach nourishment project is key to design and potential performance. |
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| Possible settings include a long straight beach, an inlet that may be either natural or modified and a pocket beach. |
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| The project designers and the government committed to invest in beach maintenance to address future erosion. |
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| The 1971 Delft Report outlined a series of works for Gold Coast Beaches, including beach nourishment and an artificial reef. |
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| On the beach he always wore a straw hat with a red band and a brief pair of leopard print trunks. |
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| Sands are supplied periodically, especially after typhoons, to keep the beach viable. |
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| This hike is going to be burly, but worth it because there is good body surfing at that beach. |
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| Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy. |
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| This can be used to build up beaches suffering from beach starvation or erosion from longshore drift. |
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| It stops the movement of the original beach material through longshore drift and retains a natural look to the beach. |
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| Adventure then turned toward the beach of Ocracoke Island, heading for a narrow channel. |
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| Shelley's body was washed ashore and later, in keeping with quarantine regulations, was cremated on the beach near Viareggio. |
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| In his graphic account of the cremation, he writes of Byron being unable to face the scene, and withdrawing to the beach. |
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| The old man wandered away from his retirement home, dropped dead on the beach and was picked up by the meat wagon and sent to the morgue. |
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| Ada, Flora, and their belongings, including a hand crafted piano, are deposited on a New Zealand beach by a ship's crew. |
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| As there is no one there to meet them, they spend the night alone on the beach amongst their crated belongings. |
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| Blocked from going further, they were forced to return to the beach where they provided fire support for the now retreating infantry. |
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| Proponents of this view point out that elements of the Canadian forces, such as at Green beach, landed without trouble. |
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| He tells Ada that there is no room in his small house for the piano and abandons the piano on the beach. |
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| A beach, where sand and gravel is deposited, is usually bounded by a deeper marine environment a little offshore, where finer sediments are deposited at the same time. |
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| A stranding is when a cetacean leaves the water to lie on a beach. |
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| I went to the Venice beach body building competition and noticed the competitor from Athen, and boy oh boy lemme tell ya, that's what a call classic Greek anatomy. |
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| His father had a franchise from the Burnaby estate that allowed only him to put bathing boxes on the south beach for which he paid a rent of perhaps a shilling per box. |
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| But you'll have to wait in line in the morning to reserve a beach hut, and one never gets used to the sad sight of parrots, toucans, and cockatoos squawking in their cages. |
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| We had to leave the beach because the sun was really beating down. |
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| He was hanging out at the beach, checking out the young women in bikinis. |
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| These are used for beach nourishment, land reclamation and construction. |
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| Other less formal variants include beach rugby and snow rugby. |
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| After a day at the beach, we made our way hotelward for dinner. |
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| In the absence of archaeological evidence at the landing point, this beach was most probably at Walmer, which is the right distance up the coast from the White Cliffs. |
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| The intertidal mud or sand flat habitat is continuous with many other habitats. Landward, it may be bordered by a beach, marsh, bulkhead, or stretch of riprap. |
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| I'm out in Lawn Guyland for the summer at my dad's place at the beach. |
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| Increasingly, these craft are being used as yacht tenders, enabling yacht owners and guests to travel from a waiting yacht to, for example, a secluded beach. |
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| Boats on the Cox's Bazar Beach, the longest natural beach in the world. |
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| The five concrete shells of the structure resemble seashells by the beach. |
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| They depart from the same beach on which she first landed in New Zealand. |
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| There was a fatality in 2012 when 400 tonnes of rock fell onto the beach at Burton Bradstock and another cliff fall took place in 2016 at West Bay, near Bridport. |
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| The 19th century marks the birth of the first beach resorts. |
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| There are also long stretches of beach in the centre of the region. |
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| The coastal suburb of Portobello is characterised by Georgian villas, Victorian tenements, a popular beach and promenade and cafes, bars, restaurants and independent shops. |
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| Several exits from the beach were created, but not without difficulty. |
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| Another attractive feature of the town is the long beach facing the North Sea, with large cliffs at either end sheltering small rock pools and inlets. |
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| It is predominantly of a brown forest soil type with some gleying, the lower parts being formed from raised beach sands and gravels derived from Old Red Sandstone and lavas. |
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| Many homes are essentially beach huts and lack basic amenities. |
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| In later years, Lowry spent holidays at the Seaburn Hotel in Sunderland, County Durham, painting scenes of the beach and nearby ports and coal mines. |
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| It was common to see groups of fishermen, holding lights in their hands, making a pilgrimage to the Cape's chapel throw the beach in Saint Andrew's Eve. |
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| Kelp in the sea next to the machair softens the impact of waves, reducing erosion, and when it is washed ashore by storms, forms a protective barrier on the beach. |
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| Voted the world's most stunning landing spot, Barra's airport is claimed to be the only airport in the world to have scheduled flights landing on a beach. |
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| Sand dunes on the beach, which have long protected the golf course, are themselves in danger of eroding away, and are the subject of a restoration project. |
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| Popular recreational activities focus on the beach and watersports, such as windsurfing, kitesurfing, fishing, crabbing, sailing, and canoeing on the estuary. |
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| The West Shore is the quiet beach on the estuary of the River Conwy. |
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| The stars are as numberless as the grains of sand on a beach. |
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| The Queenie Festival includes all kinds of events including sailing, diving, barbecues, beach days, sea swims, entertainment and plenty of queen scallops. |
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| Finally, the beach is a place for kitesurfing, windsurfing and surfing. |
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| The Parismina Social Club is a charitable organization backed by American tourists and expatriates, which collects donations to fund beach patrols. |
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| Mature turtles often return to the exact beach from which they hatched. |
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| In human form, she looked after the children playing on Punalu'u beach. |
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| It stands on Talacre beach, at the entrance to the River Dee estuary. |
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| In 2005, Aglientu, hosted the Kitesurf World Cup in the Vignola's beach. |
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| Vai has a palm beach and is the largest natural palm forest in Europe. |
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| It is perfectly located near the beach as well as the centre of town. |
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| These techniques include beach nourishment and sand dune stabilisation. |
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| This is generally used to absorb wave energy and hold beach material. |
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| The imported sand should be of a similar quality to the existing beach material so it can meld with the natural local processes and without adverse effects. |
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| In one study a high watertable coincided with accelerated beach erosion, while a low watertable coincided with pronounced aggradation of the foreshore. |
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| With the beach in a saturated state, backwash velocity is accelerated by the addition of groundwater seepage out of the beach within the effluent zone. |
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| The location of the shoreline also provides information regarding shoreline reorientation adjacent to structures, beach width, volume and rates of historical change. |
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| For many beach areas there is only patchy information about the wave climate, therefore estimating the effect of wind waves is important for managing littoral environments. |
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| From the beach boat trips frequently leave to tour the Needles. |
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| Otherwise, the beach is unstable and the replenished sand quickly erodes. |
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| A project at Sugar Cove transported upland sand to the beach. |
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| A pipe was to transport sand from deeper water to the beach. |
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| The performance of a beach nourishment project is most predictable for a long, straight shoreline without the complications of inlets or engineered structures. |
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| Between the summers of 2003 and 2008, an artificial beach was created at the Boompjeskade along the Nieuwe Maas, between the Erasmus Bridge and the Willems Bridge. |
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| Sea fishing, from the beach, pier or out at sea, is carried out here. |
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| News of his departure had been sent by radio to Dover, but it was generally expected that he would attempt to land on the beach to the west of the town. |
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| Though the Type A barges could disembark several medium tanks onto an open beach, this could be accomplished only at low tide when the barges were firmly grounded. |
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| In order to allow a better defence of the coast against a possible Allied landing, the Germans destroyed the mauresque casino that was located near the beach area. |
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| Their infantry were meant to be supported by Churchill tanks of the 14th Army Tank Regiment landing at the same time, but the tanks arrived on the beach late. |
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| This would improve the visibility of obstacles the enemy had placed on the beach while minimising the amount of time the men had to spend exposed in the open. |
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| Some 1,200 aircraft departed England just before midnight to transport three airborne divisions to their drop zones behind enemy lines several hours before the beach landings. |
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| They quickly cleared the beach and created several exits for the tanks. |
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| The Palace Pier section of the beach has been awarded blue flag status. |
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| The layer of sediment underlies a cliff on the beach, but after stormy weather the protective layer of sand was washed away and the sediment exposed. |
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| The beach was also featured in the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony. |
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| Sargassum is commonly found in the beach drift near Sargassum beds where they are also known as gulfweed, a term also used to include all seaweed species washed up on shore. |
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| Floating oceanic debris tends to accumulate at the center of gyres and on coastlines, frequently washing aground, when it is known as beach litter or tidewrack. |
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| Additionally, hermit crabs have been known to use pieces of beach litter as a shell when they cannot find an actual seashell of the size they need. |
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| Heal the Bay is another organization, focusing on protecting California's Santa Monica Bay, by sponsoring beach cleanup programs along with other activities. |
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| For example, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted beach tourism and fishing along the Gulf Coast, and the responsible parties were required to compensate economic victims. |
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| Shovell was temporarily buried on the beach at Porthellick Cove. |
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| The beach sediments that are moving by lateral transport on the lee side of the island will accumulate there, conforming to the shape of the wave pattern. |
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| Greek scholar Aristotle realized that fossil seashells from rocks were similar to those found on the beach, indicating the fossils were once living animals. |
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| Sandown Bay is the name of the bay off the English Channel which both towns share, and it is notable for its long stretch of easily accessible golden sandy beach. |
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| At extreme low tide a petrified forest is partially revealed in the northern part of Sandown Bay, and fragments of petrified wood are regularly washed up on the beach. |
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