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Stifling heat, sunburn - to the peculiar pleasures of Spain's beaches in August, add the sting of the jellyfish. In the last [an error occurred while processing this directive]couple of weeks, fleets of bloblike Pelagia noctiluca have reached beaches from Barcelona to Málaga. In Catalonia alone, the Red Cross has treated 14,044 bathers for the painful stings. Local governments in Benidorm and elsewhere have posted signs in three languages warning of the dangers. The Interior Ministry has publicized advice for those who are stung - wash the affected area with salt water, don't rub it, seek...
...dirt and hardy scrub and 240 km north of Port Hedland, a gray-haired multitude has gathered at the end of a gravel road off the highway. All are wearing shorts, some carry rods and reels. Hundreds of time-rich wanderers are fishing or collecting shells on Eighty Mile Beach in the midday sun, while their well-traveled 4WDs and homes on wheels rest in the caravan park behind the dunes. These gray nomads jest that they are part of the SKI club: Spending the Kids' Inheritance...
...friends. Their house and assets sold off to fund a lifestyle that now sees them on the road for six months at a time, the only place they now think of as home is their son's property at Australind, near Bunbury, 2,000 km down the road. "This beach area hasn't changed at all," says Wilson, fishing from the comfort of a deck chair. Wilson was a regular visitor to this beach when he worked at Newman's iron ore mine. Born in Wigan, England, he came to Australia in 1969. "But you definitely now see more people...
...eight-week getaway, Glen and Carol Mowatt, from Lake Macquarie, N.S.W., are "dead-set fishers." They've camped at Eighty Mile Beach before, and are hoping to fill their portable freezer with goodies such as the delicious but hard-to-catch threadfin salmon. Glen, a tanned and trim 62-year-old who still works as a carpenter, keeps an eye on the charts, goes to fish two hours before full tide, and stays for an hour after its peak. When the tide is out on this shallow coast, he'll walk 3 km over the wet sand to cast...
...place, which she's sharing with a couple of guys, including a German backpacker, is a colorful, lived-in shack two streets back from the beach. When it's quiet, you can hear the waves from the front room. In the warm weather, she'll surf twice a day, she says, but in winter it's more like every second day. As determined as she is to develop her skills, she can't stand the cold for long...