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Affordable Luxury at a Stunning Florida Resort

February 27, 2023
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As the black night sky yielded to twilight over the calm Atlantic, I gasped in awe as the tippy-top of the sun’s sphere pierced the horizon. Like the first brush stroke from a new color palette onto a watercolor painting, the whites and blues were met with bursts of warm glowing orange. Instantly, a myriad…

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Lifesavers Plead for Safety Following Deaths at Unpatrolled Beaches

January 5, 2023
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Lifesavers have pleaded for people to wear flotation devices when trying to save others from waterways after two fathers died rescuing their children from rips. Sergeant Peter Stone lost his life rescuing his son caught in a rip at a New South Wales (NSW) south coast beach near Narooma on New Year’s Day. Another father,…

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Former Santa Monica Mayor Dies in Small Plane Crash on Beach

December 23, 2022
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SANTA MONICA, Calif.—A former mayor of Santa Monica, California, died after a small plane crash-landed and flipped upside down on a beach in the coastal California community, authorities said. Rex Minter was a passenger in the single-engine Cessna that took off from Santa Monica Airport about 3 p.m. Thursday en route to Malibu. The pilot…

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Arches, Beaches, and Butterflies in Santa Cruz, California

November 15, 2022
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On a sunny autumn day in Santa Cruz, California, my friend and I walked the paved path along West Cliff Drive. Our route lay between Natural Bridges State Park to the west and the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse to the east. During our four-mile out-and-back walk, we viewed sandstone arches, beautiful beaches, and wintering monarch…

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PHOTOS: Family Creates Stunning Artwork Using Pebbles, Turning Beach Time Into Wellness Time

October 16, 2022
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When Leva Slare and her family started making art from pebbles on the beach, they did it just to get out and be creative during the first lockdown in the UK. But they soon realized its therapeutic impact on their mental well-being and turned it into a shared hobby. Their handiwork was so incredibly good that…

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A Captain’s Story of Fort Bragg’s Glass Beach

September 13, 2022
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FORT BRAGG, Calif.—Millions of smooth glass pebbles blanket the shore near Fort Bragg, giving the famous site its name: Glass Beach. Though the glass pebbles are not quite an all-natural formation, they’ve been drawing tourists for decades. Joseph Cass Forrington, a former sea captain and owner of the Sea Glass Museum, said it was just…

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Good Samaritans Work Together to Rescue These Stranded Giants

August 23, 2022
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The power of kindness and cooperation. …

Sand Replenishment for California Beaches to Start in 2024: Officials

August 17, 2022
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A project to replenish sand along the coastline in Huntington Beach and Newport Beach is expected to start in 2024, local officials announced Aug. 16. The project was made possible after Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Huntington Beach) helped secure $15.5 million from Congress for the project. Steel was joined by local officials and the representatives of…

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The Moving Story Behind Dog Sitting All Alone, Staring at the Sea: ‘It Broke My Heart’

August 2, 2022
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On a family outing to the beach near her home in Peru, a woman came across a little dog sitting all alone and watching the ocean. As it turned out, there was a sweet, sad story behind his sea-gazing. Jolie Mejía, 23, of Lima, first saw the dog on the nearby sandy shores of Punta…

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Orange County Beaches Among the Cleanest in California

June 27, 2022
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Some Orange County beaches topped the list for some of California’s cleanest in Heal the Bay’s annual Beach Report Card (pdf). The non-profit environmental advocacy group assessed 500 California beaches in its 2021–2022 report and categorized them on a scale from A to F based on sewage-related pollutants measured by county health agencies. The water…

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