Byron Bay, Australia (AFP) Dec 15, 2020
Australia's Byron Bay usually conjures images of bathers lounging on sunkissed shores, or blissed-out longboarders cruising along cyan-blue waves - but coastal erosion and lashing storms have reduced its seashore to a debris-strewn slither. The tourist hotspot's main beach has been reduced to a thin strip by a sand-shifting phenomenon known as "headland bypassing". Recent wild storms have t
Australia's Byron Bay beach shrinks as sand disappears
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