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...Gaza Strip? Most people think of this section of the Israeli-occupied territories as a wretched, raging refugee camp. But it also offers a gorgeous, unspoiled slice of Mediterranean beach. The residents of Gush Katif, a collection of Jewish settlements on the Strip, bid visitors to come and swim, thanks to a new road from the Israeli border enabling tourists to skirt rebellious Palestinian villages -- and thus reduce the risk of a Molotov cocktail through the windshield. Although Gush Katif's Palestinian laborers have twice turned on their employers and stabbed two of them to death, spokeswoman Datya Herskovitz says...
...early June, the four-ton, 30-ft.-long female minke whale was done with her winter sojourn in temperate waters. It was time to head back to the chilly Arctic for the summer. Traveling north, she and her fellow minkes would periodically dive down to gulp fish, then swim back to the surface to suck air through their blowhole -- for like all whales, minkes are air-breathing mammals. They followed an age-old migratory track, invisible to humans but as well marked as an interstate highway to the whales...
Most endangered of all is the northern right whale. Nearly 60 years after hunting the species was forbidden by the League of Nations, only 350, at most, swim the waters of the Atlantic. One-third of right-whale deaths recorded since 1970 resulted from collisions with ships or accidental entanglement in fishing nets...
Advantages: A swim will refresh...
Disadvantages: You can't swim. There are huge rocks everywhere. You're sharing the area with dogs and diapered children...