41.   The sea, a blinding palette of greens, blues and aquas, crashes against rocks, then laps quietly on the white sand.

42.   Wailea is condos and townhouses, nothing high-rise, and three or four golf courses, small shopping centers, long reaches of white sand.

43.   We even hauled in white sand to make a smidgen beach there.

44.   We ended our visit on the white sands of Seven Mile Beach.

45.   Where there was once white sand, now there are huge slabs of ominous bedrock, as if deposited there by a volcanic blast from Yosemite National Park.

46.   Women with their heads wrapped in bright Indian scarves were sifting the white sand between the beds of sea urchins.

47.   Your only task is to find a deserted stretch of white sand and settle in.

48.   About a dozen Romanov descendants followed the coffins into a small side chapel, and threw handfuls of white sand into the crypt.

49.   Another section has the dismantled fuselages of two warplanes resting on white sand surrounded by sandbags, palm trees and mannequins dressed as American GIs.

50.   Breathtakingly gorgeous with its blue seas and white sands, the Bay of Pigs looks more like a billboard for a Caribbean vacation than an old Cold War battleground.