We helped Olivia drag the sled up the white dunes.
Top tip: Sunset, starlight and sunrise are particularly magical against the white dunes.
There were masses of flamingos in the saline pools near the shore, and a landscape of verdant brush and white dunes.
In summer the agapanthus spill out among the white dunes, with flashes of blue and sometimes white, some of them 6ft high.
I can picture the too-loud iPods and the dozing sergeants, the landscape of white dunes and winding road, and how an uneventful ride suddenly turned into a nightmare.
North of the Kennedy Space Center stretches 24 miles of immaculate and undeveloped public beach where it's possible to stroll along white dunes without ever seeing more than a sea turtle or a bald eagle.
My friend Zaid, a thirty-two-year-old safety engineer turned revolutionary driver, lived in Suluq, and as we drove through Al Uqaylah one day he nodded toward the bleak white dunes and mentioned that his great-grandfather, his great-grandmother, and their six children had been interned there.
But elsewhere, from the Catalan-flavoured north-west to the south's white dunes, from the rocky east to sometimes surfable west, Sardinia's coast offers space, surprisingly low prices (though accommodation costs jump in August) and a friendly welcome – particularly in these euro-critical times, when fewer Italians can afford a trip.
Recuperate in the waters of Poetto beach and dream deeply on its white dunes.
Rosa rugosa patches were slightly smaller in grey dunes than in white dunes and brown dunes, and some of the largest patches were found close to villages.
From 1,500 feet above, you see its orderly layout, the round theater, the hippodrome, the enclosed area within the excavated Crusader walls, and the long ridge of the aqueduct and the low white dunes of its nature preserves.
