On a recent summer afternoon in downtown Santa Cruz, a mile away from the city's main beach and waterfront amusement park, homeless residents filed into the public library, carrying piles of personal documents and half-completed housing applications.
This is the main beach and tourist area.
The massive 1953 flood overran the main beach, and only the highest dune tops remained above water.
Students come from far and wide to discover the secrets of the region's cuisine, and it makes an ideal place to learn: seafood bars line the main beaches, and the streets of Ban Sala Dan and Ko Lanta's old town are lined with shacks selling staples such as pad Thai (stir-fried noodles), tom yum (hot and sour soup) and gaeng pah (spicy jungle curry).
Lazy beach day: Las Arenas Las Arenas is Valencia's main beach, closest and most accessible to the city.
Trearddur Bay, Anglesey While the main beach is sandy and full of holiday-makers, there are a number of quiet, shallow bays in the area that offer great snorkelling; the easiest to find is opposite the dive shop on Ravenspoint Road.
But on the main beach on Tuesday afternoon, Vanessa and Toni, both in their early twenties and from the UK, were among the numerous promoters still illegally canvassing to get people to sign up for various pub crawls and parties happening that night.
A long table for 40 lighted by torches and sprinkled with bougainvillea and copa de oro had been set up on the main beach by the charming pink and thatched Italian restaurant that's the nexus of the social scene.
Beaches which were failed by the guide this year ranged from Church Beach in Lyme Regis, Dorset, to Hele Beach in Ilfracombe, Devon; Haverigg in Cumbria and Broadstairs main beach in Kent.
(AP) — A leaky truck filled with oil-stained sand and absorbent boom soaked in crude pulls away from the beach, leaving tar balls in a public parking lot and a messy trail of sand and water on the main beach road.
Merón is its main beach, with great conditions for learning and more difficult peaks for more advanced surfers.
