He swallowed some sleeping tablets, put on his wetsuit and entered the sea at Manhattan Beach, not far from his home.
As each colourfully painted wooden fishing boat returns from three or four days at sea, the beach rapidly transforms into a market and large metal bowls of shiny silver herring and tuna are hauled ashore by men who look like Olympic medal-winning body builders.
Volunteers would care for injured sea turtles, monitor the beach for nests each morning and make sure that baby sea turtles made it safely to the water each night.
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"How much you make has to do with how much you work, " says Dan Costello, vice president of sales at CaddieMaster, a company that manages caddy programs at 47 clubs like Pebble Beach and Sea Island.
She had sometimes looked for sea glass on the beach in San Clemente, and her housekeeper Fina had cautioned her about picking it up, because the edges could cut you even when the rest had been worn smooth.
Now the rooms are buried in palms and sea grape trees in fact, there are stretches of the long, crescent beach on which the sea grape trees have become palapas.
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Half a million tonnes of sand has been pumped onto a Conwy county beach to improve sea defences and tourism.
Fifteen people, including members of the public, were rescued after being pulled out to sea at Blue Water Bay Beach.
Hundreds of people would come to visit the home each day, but even more would take the free walk along the sea that started near Easton Beach off Memorial Boulevard.
Pods of surfers bobbed on their boards, watching eagle-eyed as white-capped waves rolled in and paddling fervently for sea-sprayed ride towards the beach.
Lifeguard supervisor Ben Mitchell added: 'The RNLI exists to operate a seamless rescue service from the beach to the open sea.
But the Gold Coast can also surprise even the most dedicated beach snob with its sea hazed dunes, warm waves and soft, clean sand.
From the hills of nearby Killiney Hill Park, soak up the sweeping views of pebbly Killiney Beach, the Irish Sea and the Wicklow Mountains.
Soon they walked, drunk, surrounded by a pack of hungry strays, toward a glaring white strip of beach and the black sea and blue froth crashing on the sand.
Rumoured to be the most beautiful sea kayaking spot in the country, the small fishing village on the west side of Glandore Harbour has a secluded beach cove and a network of around 10 sea caves and inlets.
You can "hold the line" with expensive sea walls, retreat and leave the beach, or compromise with sand dunes and beach replenishing.
It also said the beach was covered by the sea for 42% of the time and there was no public right of access.
The sand has been dredged by boat from a sandbank 20 miles (32km) out to sea, then pumped onto Colwyn Bay beach through a pipeline.
Last year saw a slight rise, but most tourists go to the beach resorts of the Red Sea, staying away from Nile Valley sites like Luxor.
These mini-narratives allow the visitor to experience Mr. Adams's oscillation between tragic environments destroyed by humans, and the renewal he subsequently sought in other subjects, such as the tranquil beach landscapes of his "Sea Stories, This Day" series.
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Melnyk and I find an open slot among the crowd of surfcasters on the beach and duckwalk backwards into the rough sea.
Here on Brandenburg Beach, the combination of rough North Sea waters and strong winds draws windsurfers from more than 30 nations for the biggest event of its kind.
The Banyan Tree Lang Co has 49 villas all with their own pools, 17 of which sit on Canh Duong beach with views of the South China Sea.
The Peruvian Sea Institute surveyed about 43 miles (70km) of beach coastline on Sunday and estimated that 592 birds were dead along the shore.
The old front on Beach Road long ago lost sight of the sea and the hotel itself nearly disappeared in a concrete jungle of new hotels and office blocks.
The beach is gorgeous and fronts the same enticing Ionian Sea that is such a draw in Ithaca.
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In Kau, go caving at Kula Kai Caverns, hike to Green Sands Beach, and follow the rugged Road to the Sea.
As there is no harbour, the boats are launched off the beach, allowing Mr Williams about four hours at sea depending on the tide.
But there have been beach libraries dotting the Dutch coast of the North Sea for six years now, including branches in Katwijk, Makkum and Kijkduin.
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