
DSC_8999: the sun is setting over the ocean and the water
This photo features a serene beach scene with a wooden pier extending out into the ocean. The pier is situated near a bench, which is positioned at the end of the pier, providing a perfect spot for relaxation and enjoying the view. The sun is setting in the background, casting a warm and inviting glow over the ocean. The scene is further enhanced by the presence of a few birds flying in the sky, adding a touch of life to the peaceful atmosphere.

Rochers aux Avirons
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Rochers et plage de sable noir aux Avirons
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Île d'Aix, Charente-Maritime, France
Île d'Aix - Pointe de Montrésor, dans une baie orientée vers le sud - à l'horizon, l'île d'Oléron
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At the Beach
Neshotah Beach, Two Rivers, Wisconsin

Pebbles And Poetry.
Rocky beach in Calabria, Italy.

O'Side Under Pier Dawn 80D 8X15mm
Sunrise Under Oceanside Pier
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A Story.

Montebruin
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Jekyll Island, Georgia - January 1, 2023: Woman photographs a washed up driftwood tree on Driftwood Beach during a very foggy, hazy day

Sea City
Tall Residential High Rises along the Lower New York Bay in Coney Island

Nerja_07877
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Píllara
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Honeymoon vacation
Many yacht's in moorings on the dyfi estuary beach at Aberdyfi in Gwynedd.

Honeymoon vacation
More boat's in the water at the estuary at Aberdyfi in Gwynedd

Two Rivers Beaches
Neshotah, Two Rivers, Wisconsin

Rochers et plage de sable noir aux Avirons
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Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Sant'Avendrace, Cagliari
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The Strip, Fort Lauderdale Beach, City of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, USA
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.

The Strip, Fort Lauderdale Beach, City of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, USA
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.

Saint Michael's Mount
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Hale O Keawe panorama
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Kukio Honu D
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Porto Venere
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Easing Back to Port
La Playa Piedra del Cura

moments of freedom
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The Wind in the Willows
Lazy Summerdays By The Sea

Portsall dans le couchant
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Lake Michigan beach day
Getting back into the game. New 6700 and 75,27 1.2 viltrox

Morning at Point Wilson
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Sylter Landschaft bis an den Atlantik...
Sylt scenery to the shore of the Atlantic...

Monday Afternoon
Neshotah Beach, Two Rivers, Wisconsin

The Strip, Fort Lauderdale Beach, City of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, USA
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.

Pontal do Atalaia em Arraial do Cabo
Arraial do Cabo - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

Postcard from Procida, Italy🍦🌊
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Alignements // Alignments
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O'Side Life Guard Tower 9 Sunrise 80D 8X15mm
SoCal Sunrise South Beach Oceanside Life Guard Tower 9
The Best Part Of Life, Is
Sharing Things You Love
With People, Like Beautiful
Photographic Moments,
That Lift Ones Spirits
The Moments To See The Beauty
Of Life For Themselves,
And Yes Every Picture Tells
A Story.

Honeymoon vacation
Harbour view of Aberdyfi estuary with fishing boat's in the water and colourful houses.

Summertime
De Kerfissien aux Amiets

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Black Beach is a unique beach made of black sand.
The sand is caused by the graphite deposits around the beach.

Resting
Beach chairs (Strandkörbe), nested together, on the beach of Kołobrzeg (Kolberg), Baltic Sea coast, Poland.
On Ilford HP4Plus

Badetreppe am Grünstrand in Cuxhaven-Altenbruch - 1
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French trip 2023 - tree trunks St Malo (04)
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Praia Fluvial de Monsaraz
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Praia Fluvial de Monsaraz
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Praia Fluvial de Monsaraz
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,, 30/2c/248/1f - Playa de Los Pocitos, Montevideo 2009
Apr 14/25 (66)

Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand (2019)
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Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand (2019)
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Avoca Beach Rock Pool, NSW
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Peter Stokes Photography.

Footsteps
Not off the beaten path yet ;-]

Stranddag - Kralendijk, Bonaire, Caribisch Nederland
Brown Pelican

Árnafjørður
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Árnafjørður
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Couleur Bassin ...
Petite pose sur le Bassin d ' Arcachon .
Village ostréicole de l ' Herbe . France .

Sunset above Saint-Pol-de-Léon
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Early Morning Sun
Mijas Costa

Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand (2019)
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Pembrokeshire sunset
Take a look at my top 50 shots: www.flickr.com/photos/andygocher/sets/72157646224415497/

Beach , clouds and pier
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Clachtoll Beach
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Ilha de Cataguases
Ilha de Cataguases - Angra dos Reis, RJ - Brasil

N-G-C Corsica-somewhere in
A beautiful beach, small. Welcome to paradise island

Beach
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The striped way to the sea
At the beach of Scilla, Calabria

Encontro em Trancoso
Arraial D´ajuda e Trancoso - Bahia - BrasilEncontro da falésia com o marDisponível para licenciamentoNegativo escaneado - Foto original com Canon EOSFoto participante da Mostra: Dez Fotógrafos Brasileiros
De 6 a 27 de Fevereiro de 2010 em Napoli - Italia
De 8 a 30 de Abril de 2010 em Jacareí - São Paulo
De 2 de Setembro a 31 de Outubro de 2011 - São Paulo, CapitalCopyright © Marcelo Nacinovic, all rights reserved
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Praia de Copacabana no Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro - BrasilDrone DJI - Mini 4 Pro - El. 30m

Netanya, May 2025
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O'Side Tangerine Sunset 6D 24X105mm
SoCal Tangerine Oceanside Sunset
The Best Part Of Life, Is
Sharing Things You Love
With People, Like Beautiful
Photographic Moments,
That Lift Ones Spirits
The Moments To See The Beauty
Of Life, Every Picture Tells
A Story.

Bird and sails
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Baie du Kernic
Paysage de carte postale, la baie offre un panorama exceptionnel et changeant au fil des marées. La luminosité qui la baigne tout au long de la journée et en toute saison, la couleur turquoise de ses eaux lui confèrent, ici et là, les allures d’une destination lointaine et exotique. Certains amateurs vous inviteront à la découvrir depuis les Dunes de Keremma pour une vue d’ensemble, d’autres indiqueront préférablement le point de vue depuis la pointe de Pen an Théven à Plouescat pour un aperçu depuis le goulet…bordée par le GR34 le randonneur aura tout loisir de l’observer et de s’émerveiller sur plusieurs kilomètres.
www.roscoff-tourisme.com/fr/a-voir-a-faire/visites-et-dec...

Across Fuengirola
Mijas Costa

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Poetto, Cagliari, Italy
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Llanddwyn Island
Llanddwyn Island (or ‘Ynys Llanddwyn’ in Welsh) is a small tidal island off the west coast of Anglesey, and is part of the Newborough Warren National Nature Reserve. It’s home to one of North Wales’ most photogenic lighthouses, as well as a stunning Blue Flag beach, some beautiful deserted coves, the ruined remains of an ancient church, and a local maritime history museum housed inside a small terrace of pilot houses (unfortunately, closed at the moment).

St Peter Ording - windy and cold July North Sea beach, Germany
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Palm Oasis
Atlantic Beach,New York

LONGNOOK BEACH
CAPE COD, Massachusetts

WATCHING
Watching the sea and the swimmers.

Riding a Wave - Waikīkī Beach - Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
"It's not tragic to die doing something you love."
-- Mark Foo (professional surfer who, unfortunately, drowned while surfing at Mavericks (universally considered one of the biggest and most dangerous waves in the world), Half Moon Bay, California, in 1994)-- Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff) --
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‧ Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
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‧ Focal Length – 210mmThe original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6."For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/

Northern Lights Wrapping Around Vestrahorn
Northern Lights overlooking Vestrahorn, Iceland, March 22, 2025.

Corsica-Palombaggia- Mes Bonzaï
Beautiful beach in Corsica, a famous one, near Porto Vecchio. According to me awful to be there in July and Agust -too much people.
Mes Bonzaï, j'aime les appeler ainsi, la nature est coriace , il n'y a pas grand chose a cet endroit, du sel, du caillou, du sable, mais ils ont su aller chercher avec leurs racines , la vie ....
Bref la Corse quoi!

North Sea
For me, a natural beach is always a place I long for, a place I would need for a daily walk...

The Strip, Fort Lauderdale Beach, City of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, USA
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.

Honeymoon vacation
The Hut is an ice cream and hot & cold drinks kiosk on Aberystwyth South Beach.

Hayle Beach, Cornwall, England.
Hayle's wonderful empty golden beach sweeps around Carbis bay for a glorious 3 miles, a mecca for walkers and surfers alike. Godrevy Lighthouse sits off the point on it's own island in the centre distance
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Perched
Overcast day by Worthing beach.

La digue de Porsguen
Les travaux commencent en 1909, sur des plans d'architecte prévoyant une digue de 163 mètres de long. La raison l'emporte et l'ouvrage ne fait que 93 mètres de long à l'arrivée. Assez pour protéger sur un lit sableux et sûr une petite centaine d'unités spécialisées dans la pêche et l'activité goémonière.

October relaxation
Cape May
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Long White Cloud [IMG_4111]
Photo taken in Ngāmotu (New Plymouth), Taranaki Region, Aotearoa New Zealand.

sun bathers
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Wellington Point Park sunset
Wellington Point Park is a serene destination located in Delta, BC, ideal for family gatherings and recreational activities. Visitors appreciate its beautiful views of the water, especially stunning sunsets that create picturesque backdrops.
Ladner Delta BC
Canada

Edge of the World
Wild, desolate, rugged and incredibly beautiful. This stretch of takayna/ the Tarkine coast where the 'Roaring Forties' howl in from the Southern Ocean is a truly special place.

Enseadinha
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Late Afternoon at the Beach
About one hour before sunset at Haeundae Beach, a popular urban beach in Busan, South Korea.Device: Samsung Galaxy A21 Simple SCV49.
Edited with GIMP.

Hazy Seascape
Take a look at my other Explored shots: www.flickr.com/photos/andygocher/albums/72157650429437882Take a look at my top 50 shots: www.flickr.com/photos/andygocher/sets/72157646224415497/

Saint Catherine's Island
Saint Catherine's Island at dusk

Panorama Dune du Pyla . (3)
Panorama de deux photos .

Thursday Morning on Neshotah
Neshotah Beach, Two Rivers, Wisconsin

The Strip, Fort Lauderdale Beach, City of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, USA
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.

Glaros Beach, Geropotamos
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Rincon de la Victoria Cycleway
Rincon de la Victoria