In the foreground of the dramatic scene, the island's famous large, monolithic statues (Moai) share a beachside view of the shimmering solar corona and the darkened daytime sky.
Next on the agenda: raising money to build a 6, 000-square-foot beachside pavilion to house the Angels program as well as allow physically challenged local residents easier access to the beach.
But all this may soon change, as condos and coffee shops replace the clam bars and ghost trains on the valuable beachside sites.
Three years to the day and they had returned, though this time not for the beachside marriages the island was famous for but for one of its equally popular quickie divorces.
We're sitting in the soft-focus, mumsy luxury of a beachside hotel suite in Santa Monica, French doors thrown open to the late afternoon Pacific breeze.
Replete, I wandered back to my beachside villa, fell into the bed and woke to a view of waving palms and the surf breaking over the reef.
The sentient Kon 'me lived in simple thatch beachside dwellings, though the upper classes built glistening bubble-like structures within the ocean-side cliffs.
A petite, light-skinned Jamaican woman sits with her husband in a crowded beachside ice cream shop in San Diego.
This permanent beachside home, designed for a young family is located in an established, heavily treed native coastal environment.
