Beach · a Vonda Wanderlist

Where the land gives up.

1,678 places for beach travel, gathered from every corner of the map.

Lucky Bay, Australia
Lucky Bay · via Wikimedia Commons

Every beach is a negotiation between what stays and what goes.

The places in this collection are the coastline at its most persuasive.

Stokksnes, Icelandvia Wikimedia Commons

First stop

Stokksnes, before the buses

The black dunes photograph like another planet, and at seven in the morning the only footprints are yours and the seabirds'. Pay the farm gate fee, walk past the viking film set, and let the mountain do the rest.

✦ June–August · $ · Eastern Region, Iceland

The tide clears the sand twice a day. Whatever you build, build it anyway.

Every place in this Wanderlist

3 places, no itinerary.