Homes & Gardens

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Soft painterly and textural steely blue-grey tones perfectly echo our oh-so often cloudy skies. Like a warm summer’s day, yellow brings an uplifting smile to our interiors this season. All the florals have come into bloom in a riot of colour and

Grit

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There were four of us there, four of the devil’s own, and a hard lot by any man’s count. We’d come together the way men will when on the beach, the idea cropping up out of an idle conversation. We had nothing better to do, all of us being fools or wo

Space

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This building’s site is located on an elevation facing the shore end, the sea, and beyond. The site is exposed to a high levels of wind from the sea. The client requested a facility that would accommodate cafés, restaurants, and small craft shops. At

Top Sante

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AS THE SAYING GOES ‘LIFE’S a beach’ and there are so many reasons to make that your mantra this summer by spending quality time by the coast. Few destinations can match the raw, natural beauty of the humble seaside: the fresh sea air, the sand betwee

TechLife News

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A British-led marine scientific mission off the Seychelles succeeded on Thursday in retrieving a key underwater drone from the sea bed, where it had fallen after its cable was cut two days ago. The camera-carrying drone is a vital piece of equipment

Women's Fitness

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Remember the excitement of seeing the sea for the first time as a child? For most of us, that thrill never goes away. From the exhilaration of playing in the surf to the soothing sound of the waves, there’s nothing like being beside the sea to lift y

White Horses

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The rugged southwest coast of Tasmania. A place of ancient quartzite mountain ranges and heaving cobalt seas. A place that punches giant, ragged holes through the limits of our language. Where time warps and shifts, becomes geological. Where you can

Digital Camera World

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HEAVY mist has descended on Dumfries, turning its bridges picturesquely monochromatic. The mist gradually ebbs and flows in opacity, so I wait with the camera for the optimum moment of abstraction. A mischievous lad approaches me by the river; with a

Lonely Planet Magazine India

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A six-hour ferry ride from Athens, the Greek capital, brought me to the small town of Mykonos. From the room keys and the door frames to the walls of the neighbourhood, everything was painted blue and white. This calming combination left me with a re

Practical Boat Owner

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Just sailing round the island, dear” is no joke when you live on a teeny one, as I do. The beauty of Guernsey is that it’s so small I can get back in time for supper. Though I’ve sailed round it many times in all conditions, I’ll always remember a vo

Anorak Magazine

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Which bus crossed the Atlantic Ocean? Christopher ColumBUS. What is the strongest creature in the sea? A mussel! What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches? A nervous wreck. Why do seagulls fly over the sea? Because if they flew over the bay t

Backpacker

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AT FIRST, I’M SURE it’s a trick of the light. But there really is a cluster of shells embedded in the white rock 10 feet above our heads. The sight of fossilized sea life is a welcome distraction from our current predicament: Our hiking party is temp

Coast

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Sea lochs are often connected to the sea by narrow entrances or shallow sills, absorbing the energy of waves so that the inside of the loch remains calm even when a huge storm is blowing out at sea. While not every location will be 100% sheltered fro

Yachts & Yachting magazine

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Last summer dad and I sailed to Greenland. I’d wanted to go since I was seven. Something about the far north always fascinated me and the current climate situation meant that time was of the essence. We sailed in our 35ft wooden yacht, Thembi, built

Popular Science

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The Popular Science display at Strand Book Store. Strand Book Store It's August, the last full month before Labor Day, which means (despite the back-to-school sales and public longing for fall), there are still plenty of long, hot summer days left fo

ArtAsiaPacific

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The world’s busiest shipping lanes, fisheries for the planet’s most populous region, untapped deposits of fossil fuels and minerals—the South China Sea and its reefs, atolls, and newly constructed islands comprise an uncharted territory under siege b

Futurity

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Researchers have assessed how the quality of red sea urchin roe—the delicacy called uni—influences fisher behavior. Served as sushi, uni is the reproductive organ of the sea urchin. The red sea urchin, Mesocentrotus franciscanus, is one of the most h

Coast

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BOOK of the MONTH The deep sea, and how we imagine it, explore it and exploit it, is at the crux of the latest book from Helen Scales, a marine biologist and writer who’s spent hundreds of hours under water in the name of research. She explores histo

Harrowsmith

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The phrase “salt of the earth” denotes a very good, honest person, and speaking to Peter Burt of Newfoundland Salt Company in Bonavista, Newfoundland, we realize the term couldn’t be more fitting. Burt and his partner, Robin Crane, make salt in Bona

White Horses

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When I think of my home in West Cornwall, I see and feel granite. Big flakes of the stuff, managing to simultaneously crumble away into the sea and stand firm to the frequently changing moods of the North Atlantic. Seams of quartz, feldspar and mica

Boating NZ

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For a summer there my wife and I spent long days in a French boatbuilding yard. Every evening after work, I would peel off my dusty overalls, kiss my wife and go down to watch the sea. It became a necessary ritual, the shedding of my skin and the sho

ASIAN Geographic

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My father was a chief engineer for over a third of his life, and spent months at a time on voyages around the world. He and my mother moved from Rajasthan to Mumbai, and eventually to Singapore in the nineties, and I always guessed it was because my

How It Works

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When the JR drilled into the crater left by the dinosaur-killing asteroid, the sediments revealed the aftermath of the impact. First there’s a layer of glass, then a layer of ash, then all the large plankton fossils disappear. At the end of the last

Coast

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‘Even hundreds of miles from land, sailing from the Cornish coast into the Bay of Biscay, you see crisp packets and cola bottles floating by your boat, it’s very demoralising. As sailors, we use the sea and we have a responsibility to protect it. It

Shooting Times & Country

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Today, I’m standing on the deck of my boat: 25 feet of moulded fibreglass, 11 miles due south of Chesil Beach, 10 miles west of Portland Bill. Straight ahead, all is simply sea and sky. Nothing in between. Not a single other boat, just two hues of bl

Wild

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Perched on the gunwale of a fishing boat, I watched rain dancing on the water. At my side was Seumas, my best friend, a friend from childhood, who had flown down from Scotland to join me in perhaps the only place on Earth wetter and windier than home

NPR

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Some of the oldest farmland in America is on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. But as sea levels rise, saltwater is killing crops and threatening a way of life.

Woman & Home Feel Good You

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BEST FOR A BREAK FROM THE CITY Over 150 years old, the Serpentine Swimming Club (who meet here every day between 5-9.30am) is the oldest in Britain. Having hosted the swimming section of the Olympic triathlon in 2012, the lido is popular with triathl

White Horses

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The city was awash in paint. Everywhere you looked, huge swathes of colour were being thrown down – on buildings, across walls, even up 28 metre-high towers. No surface was safe. Fifteen national and international artists had converged on the doorste

Sailing Today

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Last summer dad and I sailed to Greenland. I’d wanted to go since I was seven. Something about the far north always fascinated me and the current climate situation meant that time was of the essence. We sailed in our 35ft wooden yacht, Thembi, built