My favourite track, What You Want, moves Elle at breathless speed from west coast pool to east coast school, via law school admissions tests, Spring Fling and a truly acrobatic Harvard interview.
And if you were invited to Snoop Dogg's Gold Coast pool party in 2011 (oh, you were?
The headquarters have the trappings of a West Coast startup — pool table, beanbag chairs — but the sensibility is New England; many of the employees are from M.I.T. From a conference room, the Amtrak line to Boston is visible beyond a large parking lot.
As the sun poured its periwinkle rays on the beachgoers, families from up and down the East Coast were pooling resources, enthusiasm and discipline, creating magic on the sands of Amagansett.
Dozens of state parks and recreation areas line the coast, featuring tide pools, seal rookeries, sea stacks and lighthouses.
This Public Art Fund piece at the Rockefeller Center, which crowns the Fifth Avenue entrance to Channel Gardens, was inspired by west coast roadside display pools.
For example, from the approach to the Triton Hotel in Ahungalla, on Sri Lanka's west coast, a reflective pool shaded by coconut trees seems to flow across the lobby to meet another pool and the Indian Ocean beyond.
Huge fortress-cities lined the coast, complete with pool complexes and crenellated turrets more appropriate to Disneyland than the modern Middle East.
The order includes well-known species from temperate regions, including the common starfish of North Atlantic coasts and rock pools, as well as cold-water and abyssal species.
With more than 6,000 acres of parkland, golf courses, beaches, pools, Gold Coast properties and a most dedicated staff, the Nassau County Parks system proudly presents a wide variety of services.
