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  • People paddle in the sea and walk along the sandy shoreline of Laboni Beach looking out to the Bay of Bengal in Cox Bazar,  Chittagong Division, Bangladesh, Asia.  The sunlight is reflected on the wet sand.  This is part of the coastline which is claimed to be the longest natural sea sandy beach in the world, running 120 kilometers.
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  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
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  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • People walk in and along the shoreline of Laboni Beach, Cox Bazar, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh, Asia. The sun is setting behind clouds in the sky and the warm orange sunlight is reflected in the estuary water leading out to the sea.
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  • People paddle in the sea and walk along the sandy shoreline of Laboni Beach looking out to the Bay of Bengal in Cox Bazar,  Chittagong Division, Bangladesh, Asia.  The sunlight is reflected on the wet sand.  This is part of the coastline which is claimed to be the longest natural sea sandy beach in the world, running 120 kilometers.
    Bangladesh-Cox-Bazar-Tourism-4730.jpg
  • A row of sun-lounger beds and umbrellas at sunset on Laboni Beach looking out to the Bay of Bengal near in Cox Bazar, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh, Asia.  People stand around the sun-beds and others with two sleeping dogs, other people walk along the shoreline. This is part of the coastline which is claimed to be the longest natural sea sandy beach in the world, running 120 kilometers.
    Bangladesh-Cox-Bazar-Tourism-4721.jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach, this group of Muslim girls searches aroud the entrance to Traitors Gate. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach, this group of Muslim girls searches aroud the entrance to Traitors Gate. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach, this group of Muslim girls searches aroud the entrance to Traitors Gate. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach, this group of Muslim girls searches aroud the entrance to Traitors Gate. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • The last moments of street lighting illuminates the pavement and road as dawn breaks over the shoreline on the untidy and empty seafront in Nea Makri, a coastal town near Athens on the Marathon road. This town is the original route that the Athenian messenger Pheidippides ran in 490BC to deliver news of the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of (Marathonas) Marathon. Nowadays, this is a rather unattractive town with few echoes of Greece's ancient glories although the 29th modern Olympic circus came home in 2004. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad echoed both what was great and horrid about the past.
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  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Families looking for artifacts on the river shoreline at low tide on Tower Beach. This part of the Thames beach is only open once or twice a year. Totally Thames takes place over the whole month in September, combining arts, cultural and river events presented by Thames Festival Trust throughout the 42-mile stretch of the River Thames in London, UK.
    20140914_thames festival tower beach...jpg
  • Dramatic wispy clouds in the sky above groups of people swimming in the Bay of Bengal sea during sunset on Laboni Beach, Cox Bazar, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh, Asia.
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  • Canoes head out into lake Bohinj from at Ribcev Laz, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia.
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  • Chinese coach tourists enjoy the views vrom the shore of Lake Bled, on 18th June 2018, in Bled, Slovenia.
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  • A pile of assorted ropes and fibrous cord and fishing pots await removal from the coastal landscape, having been collected by volunteers from a beach on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The amount of rubbish found dumped on UK beaches rose by a third last year, according to a new report. More than 8,000 plastic bottles were collected by the Marine Conservation Society’s annual beach clean-up at seaside locations from Orkney to the Channel Islands on one weekend in September 2016. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • After her daily swim, an elderly local woman climbs out of Porthtowan Pool, Cornwall, UK. A beautifully wild tidal pool surrounded by cliffs and rocks, with a retaining concrete wall. "Weekdays are nicer, on weekends you get all the young ones coming and throwing themselves in, they don't swim". Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • View of tunnels beach Tidal Pool from Beacons Castle, Ilfracombe, Devon, UK. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • A group of young people play games on the edge of The Rock Pool, Westward Ho!, Devon, UK. Located at the southern end of Westward Ho! beach near Bideford, this renovated pool has been here for 120 years. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • The fishing fleet of Tarbert on Scotland's Mull of Kintyre lies moored at the dock of this pretty coastal village in the Western Isles. Their colourful hulls shine in late afternoon sunshine as they are tied up awaiting another outing at sea to provide for this small fishing community a living and a livelihood for its families. But in the foreground sit a young couple whose prospects are not so positive: they rest on a bench in silhouette, one smoking a cigarette while turned to the friend who stares out to distant rolling hills. It is a scene of hopelessness that reflects modern life for the youth in remote communities where jobs are scarce and their futures far from secure. In an otherwise idyllic Scottish landscape, we guess at the disintegration of society up here - the scourge of economic downturn and future social problems.
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  • Wrecked fishing boats beached on shore at Salen, Isle of Mull. Lying on their sides, they sit rotting in the harsh northern winters after a lifetime of fishing in the seas off western Scotland. Salen (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Sàilean) is a settlement on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. It is on the east coast of the island, on the Sound of Mull, approximately halfway between Craignure and Tobermory. The full name of the settlement is 'Sàilean Dubh Chaluim Chille' (the black little bay of St Columba).
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  • On a bright summer afternoon, a young spoiled girl shows-off by riding her favourite motorized Barbie trike along The Parade, the main promenade in the north Welsh seaside town of Llandudno, Wales. Wearing a bright pink helmet and travelling on the matching pink toy bike, she trundles along with the low-tide coast over her left shoulder. Barbie is a best-selling fashion doll launched in 1959 and produced by Mattel, Inc. The brand's merchandising reaches far and wide to countries and cultures around the world and this little girl seems to be the happiest on the beach, enjoying a generous present perhaps from a parent. She is the exact age that Mattel are targeting when they market these toys to accompany their dolls and accessories though the industry has come under fire for its controversial stereotyping of gender and subtle sexuality.
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  • Across the calm waters of a Scottish bay, isolated houses and crofts sit before the dramatic Cuillin Mountains that rise up in the distance on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Sunlight from unusually fine weather spreads across this beautiful landscape seen from the road to Dunvegan, near the hamlet of Harlosh. Farming practices have changed irreversably in a generation and many southerners have English accents rather than that of native Scots islanders as city dwellers from the far south seek an alternative to urban lifestyles. The weather can have adverse effects on those unprepared for such wild conditions, especially during harsh winters when violent storms batter these Atlantic coasts. But old crofts have been converted to bed and breakfast homes, catering for tourist visitors who adore this form of idyllic escapism.
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  • Warm glow of sunset through woods in on the edge off Laboni Beach looking out to the Bay of Bengal near in Cox Bazar, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh, Asia.
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  • A baby is passed into a rowing boat at a shore of Lake Bohinj near Ucanc, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia.
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  • Visitors to Slovenia enjoy the view from the bridge at Ribcev Laz, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia.
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  • A visitor to Holy Island sits on a picnic table to read a book at a location overlooking Victorian lime kiln ruins and the North Sea, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • Piles of stones and rocks in the coastal landscape on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-15-27-09-2017.jpg
  • A woman throws a drinks bottle on to a pile of assorted plastic materials awaiting removal from the coastal landscape, having been collected by volunteers from a beach on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The amount of rubbish found dumped on UK beaches rose by a third last year, according to a new report. More than 8,000 plastic bottles were collected by the Marine Conservation Society’s annual beach clean-up at seaside locations from Orkney to the Channel Islands on one weekend in September 2016. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-07-27-09-2017.jpg
  • An art instillation entitled Technofossil by the artist Helen Paling blends with the coastal landscape of Coves Haven on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Consisting of baler twine and pebbles, the art comments on the problem of accumulated coastal waste. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-06-27-09-2017.jpg
  • A lone walker rests on a bench at Emmanuel Head on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-11-27-09-2017.jpg
  • A pile of assorted ropes and fibrous cord and fishing pots await removal from the coastal landscape, having been collected by volunteers from a beach on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The amount of rubbish found dumped on UK beaches rose by a third last year, according to a new report. More than 8,000 plastic bottles were collected by the Marine Conservation Society’s annual beach clean-up at seaside locations from Orkney to the Channel Islands on one weekend in September 2016. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-04-27-09-2017.jpg
  • A beachcomber trips on a rock while exploring the northern shore of Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • With a population on the entire island of only 800, few swimmers visit the turquoise waters of English Bay, 27th May 1997, on Ascension, a small area of approximately 88 km² isolated volcanic island in the equatorial waters of the South Atlantic Ocean, roughly midway between the horn of South America and Africa. It is governed as part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Organised settlement of Ascension Island began in 1815, when the British garrisoned it as a precaution after imprisoning Napoleon I on Saint Helena. In January 2016 the UK Government announced that an area around Ascension Island was to become a huge marine reserve, to protect its varied and unique ecosystem, including some of the largest marlin in the world, large populations of green turtle, and the islands own species of frigate bird. With an area of 234,291 square kilometres 90,460 sq mi, slightly more than half of the reserve will be closed to fishing.
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  • The shore of Boca do Inferno, Sao Tome. Boca de Inferno Hells mouth, is an inlet where waves flow into a narrow ravine that leads to a cave with a hole in the roof. The water then builds up to be forced up through the hole to create a cascade of water that shoots up into the air. Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and later a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • The shore of Boca do Inferno, Sao Tome. Boca de Inferno Hells mouth, is an inlet where waves flow into a narrow ravine that leads to a cave with a hole in the roof. The water then builds up to be forced up through the hole to create a cascade of water that shoots up into the air. Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and later a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • A man casts a fishing line from the shore of Boca do Inferno. Boca de Inferno Hells mouth, is an inlet where waves flow into a narrow ravine that leads to a cave with a hole in the roof. The water then builds up to be forced up through the hole to create a cascade of water that shoots up into the air. Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and later a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • Dancing Ledge, Langton Matravers, Swanage, Dorset. Blasted into the rock to provide bracing exercise for pupils from a nearby prep school, Dancing Ledge was so called because of the area of stone cut from this disused quarry is the size of a ballroom dance floor. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • Two girls jump in and swim in Chapel Pool, Polperro, Cornwall, UK. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • 2 young women float in Chapel Rock Pool, Perranporth, Cornwall, UK. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • Three men fish in Cape Cornwall Pool, Priest's Cove, St Just, Cornwall, UK. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • The Swimming Pool, Treyarnon Bay, Cornwall, UK. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • Plymouth City Council employees clean Devil's Point Pool at low tide, a man-made tidal pool on Plymouth Sound, Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon, UK. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • A family paddle and play with a fishing net whilst three elderly women swim in Portreath Pool, Cornwall, UK. Created by adding a retaining wall to a rock pool, until the 1970s this tidal pool was used by a local school for swimming lessons. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • Summerleaze Sea Pool was built in the 1930s when seawater swimming pools were all the rage, Bude, Cornwall, UK.  Nestled at the foot of the cliffs, Summerleaze Sea Pool is part man made and part natural rock pool and it cleaned daily by the tide. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • Tunnels Beach Tidal Pool, Ilfracombe, Devon, UK. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • A father chases a runaway tyre (tire) along the wet sand before it crashes into the man's young child, otherwise unaware of the impending impact. Chasing the object is the priority on this winter day at Whitley Bay, a North-Eastern English seaside town. The beach is dark and it has been raining but father and child are enjoying the freedom and common bond during this outdoor game. Waves of the icy North Sea crash onto the seafront and the child is preoccupied with the force of nature and the exhilaration of being outside in the cold.
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  • A mid-morning mist sweeps across the seafront's South Beach at Scarborough, the seaside town in North Yorkshire. Kids run about on the wet sand, some leaping and some just carrying buckets of salt water for sandcastles elsewhere. With the freedom and open-space, children who perhaps live in bleak industrial towns in northern England can enjoy the fresh-air on this north-eastern coast. Their reflections are also seen on the shiny sand and although it appears to be as grim as their home may be, it is in fact a warm day but the daily sea fogs that roll across this beach, a microclimate exists and is unique to this area.
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  • An elderly gentleman has just emerged from a swim in the cold waters off Paignton, the seaside town in Devon, south-west England. Still to towel himself down, he looks chilled to the bone but stands talking to friends out of view. The man wears dark trunks (costume) and has a large belly but otherwise looks fit and healthy, a true picture of health for a man of his age, after swimming in these seas for many years and enjoying the endorphins that are stimulated after wild, outdoor swims.
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  • Household refuse pollutes a coral beach on Meedu Island, an indigenous community in the Republic of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Packaging, foodstuffs and general waste has been tossed away on this otherwise beautiful place, north of the capital Male. Unfortunately, the practice of tossing away one's rubbish is a normal practice in this culture, the local people selfishly unconcerned about the future of their habitat and the health of their community. Only a few miles from Meedu are islands that serve as holiday resorts where families from Europe travel by air for the perffect vacation - unaware that fly-tipping is so widespread that it threatens this nation's worldwide status as a paradise on earth.
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  • A group of young boys play in the calm waters of the Indian Ocean on Meedu Island, in the Republic of the Maldives. The shallows are a safe playground for these kids who swim and splash about in the clear shallows next to two small dhoni boats often used to fish using traditional hand and line, an important source of income for remote communities in this island nation. The sea is perfectly clear blue and the sand coral-white, in jeopardy to rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
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  • An aerial view of a completely uninhabited, deserted island seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead atolls and islands, an hour's flying time north of Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding a tiny flat island of white coral beach sand, ringing tropical vegetation and scrub that is in jeopardy to rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
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  • An aerial view of unidentified islands seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead the atolls and islands to the north Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding the islands and tiny sandbanks of white coral beach sand, all of which are in jeopardy of rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to being overwhelmed. The only sign of life is the tiny island in the bottom right of frame where holiday resort accommodation ring this dot in the ocean. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
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  • An aerial view of an unidentified island community seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead atolls and islands, a few miles to the north Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding an island of white coral beach sand, a harbour, holiday apartments and importantly coastal defence barriers that may defend against rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
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  • A solo teenage player takes a shot at the net on a basketball court at the Cyprea Marine Foods (CMF) processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives in the Indian Ocean. It is dusk near the equator and soon dark. The landscape is barren except for some young trees on the waterfront where two people are walking in the cool tropical air. Seen in the last, darkening light of day, the player leaps upwards and his arm stays where his ball left his hand to roll around the ring. The man is enjoying some leisure time at the end of his working day, possibly an employee of CMF who handle newly-caught tuna fish for export to the EU and the UK's supermarket food industry.
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  • Beached fishing boat on shore at Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Pennyghael is a small community on the shores of Loch Scridain, and the boat sits rotting in the harsh northern winters after a lifetime of fishing in the seas off western Scotland. Loch Scridain is a long sea loch, with a west-south west aspect, on the western, or Atlantic coastline of the island of Mull.
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  • Wrecked fishing boats beached on shore at Salen, Isle of Mull. Lying on their sides, they sit rotting in the harsh northern winters after a lifetime of fishing in the seas off western Scotland. Salen (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Sàilean) is a settlement on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. It is on the east coast of the island, on the Sound of Mull, approximately halfway between Craignure and Tobermory. The full name of the settlement is 'Sàilean Dubh Chaluim Chille' (the black little bay of St Columba).
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  • Wrecked fishing boats beached on shore at Salen, Isle of Mull. Lying on their sides, they sit rotting in the harsh northern winters after a lifetime of fishing in the seas off western Scotland. Salen (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Sàilean) is a settlement on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. It is on the east coast of the island, on the Sound of Mull, approximately halfway between Craignure and Tobermory. The full name of the settlement is 'Sàilean Dubh Chaluim Chille' (the black little bay of St Columba).
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  • A man tucks in to his in-flight meal on-board an Air France Boeing 777 flight from Paris Orly to Cayenne, French Guiana. Putting more food into his mouth while watching an in-flight movie, the male passenger has an aisle seat on this airliner. We also see on another seat back, the progress of this journey across the Atlantic Ocean towards the mainland of South America, seen on the moving map system screen which reveals statistics such as altitude, airspeed, distance to destination, distance from origination and local time. Using GPS avionics, the capital Cayenne is seen as the destination as well as Caracas, Georgetown, Kingstown and San Juan in the Caribbean. On the viewer's lowered tray is a light lunch of fruit, natural yoghurt, bread roll, orange juice and empty up. This is the best of Economy class.
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  • Three dads are looking their respective children of varying ages - from a baby to an infant and 8-year old. In the foreground a father reads his tabloid newspaper as his toddler sleeps contentedly in its pushchair, a dummy in the mouth and a blanket scross its body to keep out a chilly breeze. Further back another man stands waiting for his partner with a baby, also asleep in the buggy. And thirdly, a male pushes his daughter in pink up a small slope on a bicycle that uses stablizers. It is a busy scene on Paignton seafront on the Devon coast. Elsewhere children and adults of all ages walk along the esplanade enjoying an overcast and windy day on holiday. This theatrical scene is about the ideal father and the family unit.
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  • On a wooden boardwalk that stretches across a sandy beach landscape, a young girl runs at full speed away from her mother and younger brother who walk along this walkway on the beach at Calais, France. It is low-tide, hazy winter sunshine makes soft shadows on the sand but there are few people out in the cold beyond except for a family in the surf approximately 200 yards away in the distance. Half-way back to the shore is a lone lifebelt attached to its pole in case of emergency. This near-deserted beach is an idyllic and tranquil place, allowing children to let off steam. Ffrom a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released.
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  • The pretty coastal town of Menton on the French Cote d'Azur is seen beneath a cloudless blue sky in later afternoon spring sunshine. Looking across the water, in the foreground is the marina populated with assorted yachts, launches and other boats safely moored to jetties and pontoons. The bell-tower of baroque basilica Saint-Michel-Archange, houses and buildings of Menton rise up along hillsides and the mountains of the Ligurian Alps rise up in the distance, all bathed in orange light. Mediterranean Menton - near the Italian border - is known as Le perle de la France ("The Pearl of France") for its famous beauty. It is also known for La Musée Jean Cocteau which is located in the town.
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  • A class of schoolboys accompanied by their teachers play on the shingle at the water's edge in the south coast seaside town of Brighton. The East Pier is resplendent with amusement rides and attractions that populate its long structure, jutting out into the calm English Channel beyond which is the French coast further south. The children are still in their school shirts, shorts and ties but have taken off their shoes and socks to frolic and enjoy some precious fresh-air and the freedom that childhood brings. According to British legal requirements, schoolchildren on away day visits must have accompanying adults with a ratio of 1:xx though it appears this group's quota is less with two teachers per 28 boys.
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  • As foamy waves washes up on the shore, an Instructor from a Brighton seafront kayak operator, pushes a rather large beginner out into the surf to join friends already at sea. The amateur canoeist holds on to his paddles in the correct position as he enters the water. In the distance, his mates have made their way out and are now small in the distance and the last man has to wait a frustrating few more moments to launch in the right wave. Timing is important for this helpless novice who needs to have the expert teacher push him in.
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  • The last light of day fades on the still waters of Sgeir Nam Biast, a bay overlooking Waternish Headland, near Dunvegan, north-west Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. A solitary light bulb glows from an upstairs room in this isolated cottage across the calm lake. The weather is perfect but unusual for one of the wildest parts of Britain. Farming practices have changed irreversably in a generation and many residents have English accents rather than that of native Scots islanders as city dwellers from the far south seek an alternative to urban lifestyles. The weather can have adverse effects on those unprepared for such wild conditions, especially during harsh winters when violent storms batter these Atlantic coasts. But old crofts have been converted to bed and breakfast homes, catering for tourist visitors who adore this form of idyllic escapism.<br />
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  • Three elderly women swimming in Portreath Pool, Cornwall, UK. Created by adding a retaining wall to a rock pool, until the 1970s this tidal pool was used by a local school for swimming lessons. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • Mousehole Tidal Pool, Cornwall, UK. Until the 1950s and the rise of the heated indoor swimming pool, children learnt to swim outdoors. For those close to the sea, many man-made tidal swimming pools were constructed around Britain’s coastline. Heated by the sun, these tidal pools were often built to keep bathers safe from high and rough seas, which explains why so many of them are clustered in Scotland and around the surfing beaches of Cornwall. Whether they are simple swimming holes made by shoring up natural rock pools or grand lido-like pools complete with lifeguards and tea huts, they are all refreshed by good high tides.
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  • Dead tree at the shoreline at East Railay, Thailand.
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  • Flagstaff limestone quarry, near Penmon on Anglesey, was working eight acres at the end of the nineteenth century with offices, buildings and inclined planes taking the stone to a landing stage on the shoreline at Porth Penmon.The kiln was mainly producing kiln burnt lime for agriculture and this continued until 1948 when all production ceased.
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  • An aerial landscape looking down to the remote Lip na Cloiche, a garden, arts shop and bed+breakfast cottage run by Lucy McKenzie, near Ulva ferry, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Beyond is Loch Tuath and the headland of the Island of Ulva. Lip na Cloiche is a small, densely-planted garden on the Isle of Mull, open to the public. Lip na Cloiche garden is beautifully situated close to the shoreline of the Isle of Mull, and has stunning views of Loch Tuath and the Isle of Ulva. A wide range of such plants is available for sale throughout the year, as well as fresh eggs and many craft items made from locally "found" materials. There is no admission charge. http://www.lipnacloiche.co.uk
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  • Groups of people stand at the shoreline to admire the dramatic sky at sunset on Laboni Beach, Cox Bazar, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh, Asia. The wispy clouds are glowing orange from the sun set.
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  • Groups of people stand at the shoreline to admire the dramatic sky at sunset on Laboni Beach, Cox Bazar, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh, Asia. The wispy clouds are glowing orange from the sun set.
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  • Dead tree at the shoreline at East Railay, Thailand.
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  • Flagstaff limestone quarry, near Penmon on Anglesey, was working eight acres at the end of the nineteenth century with offices, buildings and inclined planes taking the stone to a landing stage on the shoreline at Porth Penmon.The kiln was mainly producing kiln burnt lime for agriculture and this continued until 1948 when all production ceased.
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  • Flagstaff limestone quarry, near Penmon on Anglesey, was working eight acres at the end of the nineteenth century with offices, buildings and inclined planes taking the stone to a landing stage on the shoreline at Porth Penmon.The kiln was mainly producing kiln burnt lime for agriculture and this continued until 1948 when all production ceased.
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  • A family paddles and enjoys the experience of shallow waters and open spaces of the south coast, an aerial view from the deck of Hastings Pier in southern England, UK on 29th May 2016. Walking along the shoreline is the small group with trousers rolled up to knees and the refreshing cool water. The tide is coming in and soon the flat sands will be underwater.
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  • A night landscape landscape of the remote Lip na Cloiche, a garden, arts shop and bed+breakfast cottage run by Lucy McKenzie, near Ulva ferry, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Beyond is Loch Tuath and the headland of the Island of Ulva. Lip na Cloiche is a small, densely-planted garden on the Isle of Mull, open to the public. Lip na Cloiche garden is beautifully situated close to the shoreline of the Isle of Mull, and has stunning views of Loch Tuath and the Isle of Ulva. A wide range of such plants is available for sale throughout the year, as well as fresh eggs and many craft items made from locally "found" materials. There is no admission charge. http://www.lipnacloiche.co.uk
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  • A life belt hangs on a cross-shaped post, all painted a vivid red as the sun sinks down below the horizon and beyond the historic Bamburgh Castle, in Northumberland, northern England. Lit with a strong off-camera flash we see the slightly blurred device, invented for saving lives at sea, with a ghostly corona around its form, against a fading blue sky. The rope dangles near the ground, around which the grasses of the dunes blow in a faint breeze. Only the foreground is lit by the flash and the distant castle building and shoreline. We see such equipment and imagine safety and rescue and also jeopardy and hazards at sea. Supplied for those taking risks and making stupid decisions makes these items essential on coastal areas.
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  • Dead tree at the shoreline at East Railay
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  • Dead tree at the shoreline at East Railay
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