Its pristine dunes and fields of corn and grapevines provided a beautiful setting for incidents like the Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd's drunken driving arrest last summer and the model Nick Gruber's fistfight at SL East two weeks ago, tantalizing summer fodder for the Page Sixes of the world.
Walking across these pristine dunes is a mind-blowing experience – you feel like Lawrence of Arabia discovering Antarctica.
Sandy Hook (New Jersey) Seven miles of pristine beaches, dunes, bird sanctuaries, holly forests, hiking trails, an old lighthouse and an even older fort.
"It's important to understand that the Xolobeni mining lease area does not impeach [on] pristine coastal dunes, [and] rehabilitation will leave the land reshaped for arable farming use.
The Coskata-Coatue area, as it's known, consists of several adjoining wildlife refuges and encompasses sand dunes, pristine beaches, salt marshes and an old maritime red cedar forest.
The landscape is like a wild, untamed playpark of towering dunes, pristine sand and spiky grasses.
Between 1997 and 2009, birds were surveyed via transect counts in 9 survey years at two relatively pristine old-growth coastal dune forest sites and nine regenerating forest sites of known age (Table S1) within a mining lease area maintained by Richards Bay Minerals RBMM).
When we returned at sunrise, we found dunes so pristine that they looked as though no human ever had crossed them.
The road was clear except for burnt-out armored vehicles and tanks and pickups and the attendant groups of scavengers and onlookers — surreal additions to an otherwise pristine desert panorama of rolling dunes and tussock-adorned hills.
Of course, the Jersey Shore is more diverse than mythology would have it, with Seaside Heights, the home base of MTV's "Jersey Shore" menagerie; the dunes, woods and pristine shoreline of Island Beach State Park; the Victoriana of Cape May; the casino empire of Atlantic City; the mix of poverty and renewal in Asbury Park; and expensive places like Bay Head.
"We're trying to put the dune back to its original pristine condition".
