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Hanalei Bay swaps between a swim beach and 20-foot surf every 6 months

Hanalei Bay swaps between a swim beach and 20-foot surf every 6 months

You arrive in late November with a booking confirmation and a mental image of glassy green water. What you find instead is a 15-foot wall of white water detonating across the center of the bay, a yellow warning flag snapping in the wind, and a beach full of people watching instead of swimming. Hanalei Bay … Lire plus

A 1990s Spanish law banned hotels from this Majorca beach and kept it empty

A 1990s Spanish law banned hotels from this Majorca beach and kept it empty

Majorca gets more than 13 million visitors a year. It’s Spain’s most-visited island, and its northeast coast runs wall-to-wall with resort towers and lounge chairs stacked to the waterline. Then there’s Es Trenc, on the southern tip, where you step onto two miles of genuinely white sand and there isn’t a hotel in sight. That’s … Lire plus

Reaching this Corsican beach takes a 9-mile desert track or a 30-minute boat

Reaching this Corsican beach takes a 9-mile desert track or a 30-minute boat

The road into Plage de Saleccia doesn’t exist, not in any sense American beach visitors expect. What exists is a 9-mile piste of loose rock and compacted dirt cutting through a protected coastal wilderness in northern Corsica. Or there’s a 30-minute boat from Saint-Florent, running on a summer schedule that deposits most passengers on the … Lire plus