1. Beaches and Oceans Beaches; Oceans; Tides; Currents; Seashells and More

2. Sydney Australia Sydney from one of the Harbour Bridge support columns, 2006. To the right of the Opera House is the beautiful Royal Botanic Gardens and to the right is Circular Quay [the harbour's main ferry terminal] and the business district.

3. An aerial view of Sydney's best surfburb, Manly.

4. Manly Beach, just 5 minutes walk from the ferry terminal

5. Manly Beach's typical surf, not massive but ever present

6. One of the more attractive and watery parts of the Great Ocean Road which in fact doesn't spend a great deal of time beside the ocean.

7. Parrots looking for a feed from a guest house above the GOR.

8. A few of the remaining Twelve Apostles

9. Whitehaven Beach, 2006.

10. Castles made of sand, stone- free and the wind cries McKenzie

11. Student surfers on big, light boards. Surfer's Paradise is a popular place to learn the how to handle waves, though sometimes

12. ...the waves are a little bigger and hairier than usual. These unruly rollers were the result of an offshore cyclone [storm ]

13. South Africa ► Camps Bay, Cape Town's most popular beach, with the Twelve Apostles in the background.

14. More Views at Cape Town

15. Cape of Good Hope

16. More Views at Good Hope

17. Florida ► Clearwater Beach was voted Best City Beach on the Gulf of Mexico Storm clouds sweep over Sand Key condo's to the South, while a bather tests the water at Sand Key Park

18. More Florida On the Gulf... Indian Rocks Beach On the Gulf... St. Pete Beach Beach

19. Tide Charts are Available ► Largo Sound, Key Largo ► 21 May 2006 - 22 May 2006 ► 25.1400° N, 80.3950° W 2006-05-21 00:23 EDT 0.06 feet Low Tide 2006-05-21 02:39 EDT Moonrise 2006-05-21 06:08 EDT 0.81 feet High Tide 2006-05-21 06:34 EDT Sunrise 2006-05-21 12:58 EDT 0.02 feet Low Tide 2006- 05-21 14:34 EDT Moonset 2006-05-21 18:45 EDT 0.82 feet High Tide 2006-05-21 20:02 EDT Sunset 2006-05-22 01:28 EDT 0.07 feet Low Tide 2006-05-22 03:14 EDT Moonrise 2006-05-22 06:34 EDT Sunrise 2006-05-22 07:06 EDT 0.82 feet High Tide 2006-05-22 13:58 EDT -0.07 feet Low Tide 2006-05-22 15:35 EDT Moonset 2006-05-22 19:50 EDT 0.86 feet High Tide 2006-05-22 20:02 EDT Sunset

20. Ocean Surface Currents

21. Ocean Gyres ► One of the primary goals of physical oceanography is to know the average movement of ocean water, everywhere around the globe. Besides knowing the average flow, it is also very useful to know how much this flow can change over a course of a day, over a year, over ten years, and longer. Ocean currents are organized flows that persist over some geographical region and over some time period such that water is transported from one part of the ocean to another part of the ocean. Currents also transport plankton, fish, heat, momentum, and chemicals such as salts, oxygen, and carbon dioxide. Currents are a significant component of the global biogeochemical and hydrological cycles. Knowledge of ocean currents is also extremely important for marine operations involving navigation, search and rescue at sea, and the dispersal of pollutants.

22. The Gulf Stream

23. Florida Currents

24. Life In The Oceans ► This Orange Ball Anemone was found during a night dive at The Turtle Farm, Grand Cayman. Copper Hair Nudibranch photographed near Carmel River Beach.

25. More Sea Life

26. In one tiny area of a reef in Honduras, the color and texture of blue Tunicates was wonderfully offset by surrounding sponges and hard corals Hooker - The wreck of the Hilma Bonaire

27. Even More Sealife ► This photo of a spotted shrimp in the purple tip anemone. ► This photo of a spotted shrimp in the purple tip anemone. Bonaire Sea Horse

28. And More Sealife ► Spanish Shawl Nudibranch in the Channel Islands, California The very bold California Garibaldi