If rideable, with wind not lashing against us, we clamber hastily into our wetsuits and lift foam surfboards to the beach, practicing our statue-like pop ups on the sand, before paddling out to the real thing.
As a city kid splayed out on the beach, practicing popping up on a surfboard for the first time, I knew that I was out of my element.
Some of the German players have been spotted on local TV on the beach practicing with a local dance teacher but are perhaps waiting for the later stages to break it out on the pitch.
Under the town's proposal, driving onto the narrow beach, a practice that has rankled environmentalists, surfers and federal officials, would be prohibited.
I think you may conclude that it's high time President Bush left beach volleyball practice!
Since all of President Bush's stern warnings have been made between attending beach volleyball practice in Beijing, I'm a little concerned about the proportion of our own response!
Be it a moving meditation during a sunrise surf session off the Island of the Gods coast or a sunset beach yoga practice at Magic Island, we find solutions precisely where formal education meets the daily lessons of the outdoor classroom.
Beach nourishment practices such as artificial nourishment, replenishment and scraping are increasingly used to combat beach erosion but the extent and scale of projects is poorly documented in large areas of the world.
To test this hypothesis we implemented an innovative approach utilizing large amounts of monitoring data (n > 150,000 measurements per FIB) to determine associations between the frequency of contaminant exceedances and beach management practices.
Intensive long-term monitoring of a leatherback nesting population on Sandy Point (St. Croix, US Virgin Islands) offers a unique opportunity to quantify basic population parameters and evaluate effectiveness of nesting beach conservation practices.
The findings of this research have important policy implications because the selected beach management practices that were associated with low levels of FIB can be implemented in other parts of the US and around the world to improve recreational beach water quality.
