Alabama 's narrow share of the Gulf coastline is blessed with an abundance of fine white-sand beaches, laundered by clear blue waters.
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Alabama 's narrow share of the Gulf coastline is blessed with an abundance of fine white-sand beaches, laundered by clear blue waters. |
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 If you want to explore and enjoy California to the full, you'll need a car . A city such as Los Angeles couldn't exist without the automobile, and in any case to drive down the coastal freeways invites irresistible mental images of Beach Boys-style cruising. |
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 The essential stop is cosmopolitan, half-Latin Miami , from where a simple journey south brings you to the Florida Keys , a hundred-mile string of islands known for sports fishing, coral-reef diving, and the sultry town of Key West , legendary for its sunsets and anything-goes attitude. North from Miami , much of the east coast is disappointingly urbanized, albeit with miles of unbroken beaches flowing alongside. The residential stranglehold is lessened further north, where communities such as Daytona Beach have become subservient to the local sands. |
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.jpg) The islands of HAWAII , with their volcanoes , palm-fringed beaches ,valleys , rainbows and awesome cliffs , hold some of the most spectacularly beautiful scenery on earth. |
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 Ocean City, Maryland is the place to be for fun all year long with 10 miles of the best white-sand beaches on the East Coast, three miles of world-famous Boardwalk, more than 17 championship golf courses, boating, bay and deep sea fishing, nature tours and preserves, water sports. |
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 Water surrounds the Upper Cape on three sides. The south-side beaches, on Nantucket Sound, have rolling surf and are warmed by the Gulf Stream . |
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 The North Carolina coast , which ranges through salt marshes, beaches, barrier islands and estuaries, holds most of the state's more interesting historic sites .The OUTER BANKS are a series of long sand bars, sprinkled with wispy sea oats, that stretch about 180 miles from the Virginia border to Cape Lookout, near Beaufort. |
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 The North Carolina coast , which ranges through salt marshes, beaches, barrier islands and estuaries, holds most of the state's more interesting historic sites .The OUTER BANKS are a series of long sand bars, sprinkled with wispy sea oats, that stretch about 180 miles from the Virginia border to Cape Lookout, near Beaufort. |
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 One of Texas 's most popular year-round coastal destinations, Galveston is an island in the Gulf of Mexico 50 miles southeast of Houston , connected to the mainland by a causeway and bridge. The island is a marriage of the best of both worlds: it is both city and seaside resort. |
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 Virginia Beach draws summer sun-seekers to the state's only real resort, surrounded by broad beaches and tidal marshlands |
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