A spotless beach slopes gently down to the harbor.
If the local council has its way, the spotless beach at the hamlet of Anderby Creek, a protected preservation area, could soon be home to a giant wind power station, much to the locals' dismay.
Each night brought the excitement of finding the perfect camping spot in a grassy dell or spotless beach and the opportunity to explore using the Canadian canoe that we towed behind the raft.
Investors are coming knocking, boasts Ahmed Tabrizi, an advisor to the Kish authorities, fresh from a week talking to investors from Japan and China.With its spotless beaches, Kish was a playground for Iran's Shah and was later designated as one of the country's free zones in 1989.
What is unavoidable as you drive along the west coast of the state to Tampa, what you surrender to and grow accustomed to finally as the best beaches begin, are the condos, miles upon miles of them, in pink stucco and white cement, standing sentinel over spotless beaches, dappled with bright yellow sun umbrellas, and then, as far as the eye can gaze, the green Gulf waters of bonefish and tarpon.
We shuffle in a heat-induced daze from the spotless, empty white beach to kayaks for slow paddles along the shore, to deckchairs set around a bonfire on the beach at sundown, to a table laid with white tablecloth under a sky thick with stars.
This is a show about knit hats, dog tags, tattered henleys, about metaphors dropped on your face with the subtlety of ACME anvils, adult humans reenacting Disney romances on spotless South American beach enclaves.
Countless tourists are also stranded in Kenya, although many of them on spotless white-sand beaches.
Which it does: serene views of Little Narragansett Bay and Block Island Sound, spotless white-sand beaches, and a newly rebuilt, grand inn atop a scenic bluff, the Ocean House, which for decades had stood as a neglected sentinel, a reminder of grander times past.
Any closer to the beach – a spotless stretch called Playa de Migjorn — and the hotel would be in the Med.
Beach and water were spotless and spectacular.
