Should you somehow become bored with the view, it's less than a half-day hike along the empty shore cliffs to the most beautiful mangrove swamp this side of the Florida Keys to fish for dinner.
The coastline measures about 200 km long and is composed of different shore types (categorized as sandy shores, rocky shores, muddy shores, mixed shores, calcareous limestone shores, cliffs and coastal wetlands) whose landforms are related to the coastal geomorphologic features.
I learned to swim in the large rock pool in Kiloran's shore, under cliffs of overhanging slate, with purple sea anemones under my toes and the frightening waves far out beyond this calm still water.
People might be surprised by my choice of locations – I was shown the park, the shore, the cliffs, but I chose semi-derelict buildings in the town, specifically an empty shop and a staircase in a house, which I have covered in clay.
"However we have seen a rise in the number of fishing boats needing our assistance and in rescues of people ashore, that's folk who are perhaps injured, trapped or cut off by the tide around the sea shore and cliffs.
Passing round the edge of the tidal Hooe Lake, the path regains the countryside above Jennycliff Bay, part of the Plymouth Sound, Shores and Cliffs (Site of Special Scientific Interest), and follows the cliffs past Bovisand to Wembury, Wembury Marine Centre.
He was also echoing the sentiments of a plucky battalion of those I'll call the "Anzac birthers" – historians, writers, military leaders and politicians, beginning with Billy Hughes – who've insisted the Australian nation was somehow forged on the shores and cliffs of Gallipoli.
Writing from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., I set out in my car every afternoon to travel down empty roads en route to seldom visited precolonial homesteads; parking at the edges of steep shore-side cliffs framed by vast marine skies a friend termed "deluxe"; wandering down a time tunnel into a past that, to renew an overused paraphrase of Faulkner, is not dead and not, for that matter, even past.
If an ocean once lapped at the rusty shores and cliffs of Mars, it left no clear traces of an ancient coastline on the planet's surface.
According to the Indian naval hydrographic charts, the mainland coastline consists of the following: 43% sandy beaches; 11% rocky shores, including cliffs; and 46% mudflats or marshy shores.
The island's bird life is particularly rich in waders such as curlew and redshank, found at The Ouse and Veantro Bay, and gull and tern colonies on the rockier shores and cliffs.
