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.
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.
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.
Any closer to the beach – a spotless stretch called Playa de Migjorn — and the hotel would be in the Med.
In 1993, the ASA criticised Jersey for making exaggerated claims after it ran a newspaper campaign boasting that "our sandy beaches are always spotless and all of our golden beaches are scrubbed and rinsed twice by clear blue water".
Grassy hills and dunes lead you towards the spotless sands of this west-facing beach (stay for sunset if you can).
