Janay Pickens, 8, was also far from Brooklyn; last summer, she left the hot streets of Flatbush for Bayville, N.Y., where she went to the beach, caught a fish, rode a horse and played miniature golf.
A car on the beach caught fire.
Superagui, the outermost island in Paranaguá Bay, is the picture of nowhere with just a few scattered houses and 25 miles of white beach caught between the forest and a pearl-gray sea.
A two-car-garage-size house, only 200 yards from the beach, caught their eye.
Campaign journalists will doubtlessly run off to the beach, catch some rays for a few days, have some drinks, and maybe have fling with a journalist from a rival news outlet they met at the Spinnaker III in Panama City Beach.
Even more remote is the Tua Koin eco-lodge on Atauro island (atauroisland.com), where the simple life is served up with huts right on the beach – catch the Berlin Nakroma ferry from Dili to the island.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil From Anna Lynn Racho, via Facebook "I'd go to Brazil in a heartbeat with an adventurous friend of mine... watch a Spain match at FIFA World Cup '14 (seats with the perfect view), stay at Caesar Park Rio by the beach, catch amazing sunsets, and go hang gliding in Rio".
Killer whales surge onto a beach to catch seals, and then wriggle back into the water with their prey.
You can camp under the stars on nearby beaches, catch a ferry to a neighboring village or conquer some of Norway's best hikes.
One of the town's beaches catches the sun between the cliff and the rocky promontory where the church of Santa Maria dell'Isola sits in a lofty grove of olive trees and prickly pear cactus.
