Jersey Shore

Another thing I got to see firsthand was the surfers. One side of the beach was marked off for swimming and the other for surfers. Before this trip, I had never seen anyone surf and it was entertaining to watch them take a wave from so far away from shore and ride it all the way back into

1800’s. The gold rush hit San Francisco in 1849 and in two years the town of 1,000 people turned into a large coastal city of 25,000 people. The land behind the bay was mountains and was not a good fit for expanding the city so they built near the shore. As the city grew throughout the years a need for more land increased. They began to build into the bay and actual changed the outline of the coast entirely. They used the steam paddy to fill in large areas of the San Francisco’s coast. As they began

There are both natural and built features present at The Spit. Natural features include a long beach, parklands and lots of trees and shrubs on the side of the road. Built features include a sea world theme park and resort with a large car park for each as well as a one lane road and on the side of the beach there are rock walls and every few kilometres there are watch towers. Currently The Spit is used in several ways such as a retail precinct, accommodation, and fishing, it is also used as a tourist

the friction between wind and surface water (NOAA, 2014). However, waves can also be influenced and created by hazardous weather, hurricanes and storms can create a storm surge. Storm surge waves are a series of long waves that are created far from shore in deeper water and intensify as they move closer to land (NOAA, 2014). The most deadly waves, are formed underwater and displace large amounts of water quickly. They are caused by disturbances such as earthquakes, landslides, or volcanic eruptions

Guests swam, water-skied, and golfed during the day, then headed to the yacht club to party at the end of the night. Now, Bombay Beach is a faded, rusted, abandoned wasteland. The water smells like salt, gas, and rotting dead fish. The shores lined with sunbathers before, and now they are covered in green sludge and dried fish remains. To understand how this place turned from paradise to agony, you need to know the story of the Salton Sea. Bombay Beach doesn’t lie on the west coast, but

With respect to beaches protection, per household annual WTP to protect a one percentage point of Old Saybrook beaches and dunes is $10, statistically significant at 1% level. The differential impact of private homes vulnerability to flood-related risks on the WTP for beaches protection is consistent across all subjective and objective measures (in terms of the sign and being statistically significant at the conventional levels). The difference in the annual WTP to protect one percentage point of

Zippo Lighters Zippo uses a wide variety of metals during the manufacturing process to make a lighter. The outer case of a lighter is typically made of “cartridge brass,” (a material that was developed for rifle cartridges) and the brass is taken from brass sheets that have been cut and wound on a spool. The inner case of the lighter is made of stainless steel, where the stainless steel was also cut and wound on a spool. Specialized metal mills create these “spools” of metal so that they are delivered

Coastal erosion is an area of large concern for the residents of eastern Australia. Two regions that are heavily affected by erosion include the gold coast and the tweed coast. Erosion is caused when wind, tides, currents, and waves move sand causing beaches to constantly change their shape. Rising sea levels, storms, and human impacts result in a decrease in beach foreshore, and if proper measures are not taken beaches will eventually disappear. The gold coast and its beaches have been heavily

Midway along the journey of my life, I pause to find myself in a darkened office, for I had wandered off from the studious path. The cold piercing glow of my monitor against bloodshot eyes taunted them with just how exhausted they had become. Projects that never seemed to want to work, grew more dysfunctional with every fix. The continued fatigue drove the temptation of distraction. Gazing out the window of my study I began examining the parking lot across the street. I began watching a figure fumbling

story. So there was a man who decided that he wanted to visit The Dead Starfish Beach to walk and clear his mind. This man lived as a dreadfully narrow minded person that accepts occurrences simply for what they are. As this man is walking down the shore of Dead Starfish Beach he spots an awfully young little girl throwing the dead starfish that lies