campingtasmania.com APeterGill South-west from Cape Reinga, the most northerly tip of New Zealand, is Twilight Beach, with all the ingredients for the perfect night: ocean, starlit skies, white sand, grassy area for your tent, and two new long-drop toilets.
The new exhibit, The Elephants of Asia, opened in Nov. 2010 and stretches across 3.8 acres that include mud holes, sand, grassy hills, swimming pools and a waterfall.
Some lay their towels in the grassy dunes, sheltering in the sand's folds like gophers on a prairie.
This was a seaside of primary colors -- green grassy marsh channels, white-yellow sand, blue river fading to the paler blue of the sky.
What I like best is returning to that same house, knowing that if the wind is blowing a certain way, I can hear the waves on the sliver of sand between the grassy cliff and the ocean.
The islands' barren and rock-strewn eastern coasts contrast sharply with the white sand beaches backed by grassy plains (the machair) found along the western coasts.
Even worse than the sand, though, was the grassy bank that comes down between the bunkers, where the rough was so thick it amounted to bogeyland.
George Grosz inserted an amusing trompe l'oeil element in "Resting," in which a lion-shaped sand dune, complete with grassy mane, looks about to pounce on the plump morsel who sunbathes in an isolated hideaway.
Emanuel Ungaro went astray with a "Fantasy Island" scenario that had models swathed in chiffon that was too brightly colored as they traipsed romantically along pink sand paths set amid grassy knolls and tried not to giggle as their dyed-to-match pumps plunged into the damp sod.
