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To run or haul (a ship) ashore or aground especially when mooring, anchoring, or docking is unfeasible or when quick landing of supplies and personnel is required.

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  • The sand of the beaches is not white, but like mud.
  • After all, we were on a beach, and I call beaches 'giant litterboxes'.
  • There are actually twin beaches here, separated by an easy-to-cross outcropping of rock.
  • There are three main beaches – Playa Principal, Playa Pantheon, and the more remote Playa Zipolite.
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