This barrier island, with beach dwellings dotting its thick sandy brush, is home to around 300 residents year-round but thousands pour in on summer weekends.
The gingerbreaded wooden beach dwellings along the shore have been declared UNESCO cultural landmarks, and Germans, Brits, Israelis, Finns and, of course, Russians are coming back to stay at the major hotels, several of which have started to undergo Western-style refurbishments.
The Beach is the story of Richard, a young traveller (British in the book yet American in the movie, funnily enough), who opts out of the Lonely Planet-led, trans-Asian amble favoured by the backpacking fraternity, and joins a secret community of beach-dwelling Utopia-seekers.
We detected no scavenging activity of raptors on urban beaches, where scavenging birds of prey were functionally replaced by nocturnally foraging, non-native mammals (red fox, Vulpes vulpes) or feral species (cats, dogs) known to threaten beach-dwelling wildlife.
Here in Florida, we love our beach-dwelling turistas.
Our favourite of the lot, though, is the one we've got premiering above, courtesy of beach-dwelling, star-gazing crate diggers Pyschemagik.
In Sri Lanka, mega-corporations had long been desperate to clear the old beach-dwelling communities of fishermen away and open up the coastline to much-more-profitable foreign tourism.
As shown in table S4, the smallest population haplotype diversity values are for seven inland Papuan groups on different large islands (the Mali, Kaket, Anêm, Ata, Aita, Rotokas, and Nagovisi), while 2/3 of the highest haplotype diversity values are for beach-dwelling Oceanic groups.
The lowly mollusk should rightly be credited with creating the world's first beach house in the brilliant form of the seashell, that Cambrian-era dwelling that today is sometimes prized and polished, and sometimes trampled underfoot.
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