BEACH BUM
April 1st, 2002
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in SydneyIN the race for the most enviable job in the world that of Australian research professor Andy Short surely takes the tape.The associate professor from the University of Sydney's Marine Studies Centre has just spent three years on full pay at the beach. Well, 10,000 different beaches to be precise.Short circumnavigated his continent three times travelling several hundred thousand miles in trucks, boats, planes and helicopters.He examined every beach to compile an invaluable travel database that describes their physical characteristics ...
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