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Because the Terraliner will be a Surf Glamper, it will also be a Beach Glamper. One of its primary missions will be to camp out on big, broad, publicly accessible beaches, if or when these might be available, and it would be safe to do so.

On the Intenet I was able to find only a handful of images of larger, more mainstream motorhomes directly engaged in beach-camping or beach driving:







The reason why such motorhomes are cautious about driving onto and along beaches should be obvious enough. They don't have the right tires, and they don't have CTIS, a Central Tire Inflation System. So they will probably get stuck in the sand. For most motorhomes, “beach camping” means camping on the grass or parking lot behind the beach, or on a paved pitch in a dedicated motorhome camping park:








Whereas if it's legal and possible, one would want the TerraLiner to be able to camp directly on the sand, particularly on very large, broad, "continental" beaches of the kind one finds in Australia, for instance.


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Camping beside beaches on prepared tarmac pitches can be nice enough, if they're available.

For instance, in the Florida Keys there's the Curry Hammock State Park, which charges 38.50 USD per night, and has some very large, 70-foot long camping pitches sited directly on a nice beach, with expansive ocean views -- see https://www.floridastateparks.org/park/Curry-Hammock , https://www.floridastateparks.org/hours-and-fees/Curry-Hammock , https://www.floridastateparks.org/photos/Curry-Hammock :










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Sunset and sunrise:





Some oceanfront pitches at Curry Hammock State Park, and a map of the campsites:








There's even a small jetty for launching a towed boat.

The longest motorhome + trailer combinanation allowed in the EU is 18.5 m, which works out to roughly 61 feet. So a 70 foot camping pitch at Curry Hammock State Park is 10 feet longer than that. Clearly, these super-large oceanfront pitches were created to accommodate 45-foot long (13.7 m) Class-A motorhomes, motorhomes that would also BE towing a dinghy (a small runabout car) behind them.

I grew up in the Keys (in part), and oceanfront properties with wide ocean views are both rare, and very expensive: most homes with oceanfront views begin at 1,000,000 USD and above:







Hotels with oceanfront views are also very pricey, rooms running 300 USD and more per night – see http://www.hawkscay.com , and https://gc.synxis.com/rez.aspx?tps=...237&template=MIAHC&promo=stay7&avcurrency=USD .

So spending just 40 USD per night to camp with one's class-A motorhome directly on the beach at Curry Hammock State Park is a bit of a steal!! It may seem like a lot of money to those habituated to boondocking in the middle of nowhere for free. But in a built-up area and prime tourist-destination like the Florida Keys, Curry Hammock State Part can't be beat for location and price.


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5. “Wild” Surf Glamping on the Big, Open Beaches in Northern Spain


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But of course, when not travelling in First-World countries like the United States, one can't expect that there will be widely available, well-run beach-front parks with tarmac camping pitches for motorhomes.

On the other hand, if one just googles around a bit, the number of open beaches backed by farmland, and still undeveloped for tourism, is stimply staggering.

For instance, even though most of the Mediterranean coastline of Italy and Spain has been destroyed by mass tourism and concrete-strip development, the same is not true for the northern, Atlantic coast of Spain, from Santander west to Galicia. This is a truly spectacular, still-largely rural countryside, with farms directly abutting the ocean:










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This is what the south English coastline probably once looked like, back in the 19[SUP]th[/SUP] century, before the urban sprawl began, sprawl that now casts a blight over most of South England, including most of the coastline, until one gets to Devon or Cornwall.



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Just a few years ago I drove the entire length of the northern Spanish coast, from the border of France to Mixia on the “Costa da Morte”. Most parts really are as spectacular and rural as the photos above suggest, especially the coastline past Santander:







But don't take my word for it, and needless to say, photographic images can lie. What never ceases to amaze me is how things that I experience “intuitively” or “visually” when driving through a landscape, are then confirmed when I look at maps that analyze landscapes using various statistical metrics.

For instance, the EU has a metric called “High Natural Value Farmland” (HNV), and while the coast of northern Spain does not score quite as well as Norway, it does score as well as Corsica, Sardinia, and Albania:







Also notice in the first map above how the coastlines of southern England and southern Ireland score very poorly for HNV.



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I don’t want to get too sidetracked here, but basically, apart from Wales, most of southern England is just one vast ex-urb of London, one sprawling bedroom community after another, with very little genuine forest cover:






England has nothing like the huge forests of northern Spain and the Pyrenees, the Massif Central in France, southern Germany, the Alps, the territory of the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, the Carpathian mountains, or the entire length of the Apennines in Italy:







Suburban sprawl in England now directly connects Newbury via Redding to London, and Oxford will probably connect to London by continuous suburb in our lifetimes. Britain and Ireland are amongst the least forested countries in Europe. The only country in Europe that has less forest cover than Britain, is the Netherlands. Greece has more forest cover than Britain – in fact, much more.

For the very best article I’ve yet come across on the web explaining the reforestation of continental Europe over the last century, complete with super-cool animated GIFs, see https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...how-europe-is-greener-now-than-100-years-ago/ :








[Sorry, only the Spain animated GIF seemed to load successfully. I'll keep trying to load the other two, but to see them "in action", just go directly to the Washington Post website.....]


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Another metric, which classifies areas as rural, deep-rural, peri-urban, and urban, confirms the same picture:







The entire northern coast of Spain is classified as “deep rural”, and so too the coasts of Norway, Croatia, Albania, eastern Greece, Corsica, and some parts of Sardinia. Whereas the coast of France, most of southern England, and all of Ireland is classified as “peri-urban”.

In terms of absence of water pollution, northern Spain is also in the same league as Norway and Corsica:







In short, even in Europe there does exist fairly “wild”, deep-rural, unpolluted coastline that’s great to both surf and “wild glamp”. One just needs to know where to find it.

Although boondocking in beach-front parking lots seems to be forbidden in northern Spain, during the winter off-season when it’s rainy and cold, these parking lots are pretty much empty. And the “off-season” for everyone else, is “prime season” for surfers.

I’ve heard and read a number of times that in the winter in the Basque Country, Cantabria, Austurias, and Galicia, there’s no problem leaving one’s camper parked for weeks right in front of superb, surfable beaches: beaches in the middle of nowhere, with nobody for company except a few equally dedicated surfers -- http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/northern-spain-climb-mountains-surf-412456 , http://magicseaweed.com/Asturias-West-Surfing/87/ , http://www.lowpressure.co.uk/surftravelplanner/region.aspx?region=86 , http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/Europe/Spain/Asturias/ , http://matadornetwork.com/trips/surfers-guide-to-asturias-spain/ , http://magicseaweed.com/Galicia-East-Surfing/88/ , http://www.lowpressure.co.uk/surftravelplanner/region.aspx?region=88 , http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/Europe/Spain/Galicia/ , http://www.surfscience.org/articles/galicia , http://www.surfing-waves.com/atlas/europe/spain/galicia.html , http://www.globalsurfers.com/read_thread.cfm?ForumID=Spain&ThreadID=41960&Thread=7875 , https://vimeo .com/1337322 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_6xpWAmLA0 , and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebmaqD6FIWQ :



[video=youtube;dxuGwot-VOw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxuGwot-VOw [/video] [video=vimeo;7315233]https://vimeo.com/7315233[/video] [video=youtube;0dV_vFRYdBA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dV_vFRYdBA [/video]



The first few videos show Mundaka, a wave that many consider the best left-hand river-mouth break in the world -- see http://encyclopediaofsurfing.com/entries/mundaka , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundaka , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundaka_wave , http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/Europe/Spain/Pais_Vasco/Mundaka/ , http://www.surfline.com/surf-report/mundaka-spain_6894/ , http://magicseaweed.com/Mundaka-Surf-Report/169/ , http://magicseaweed.com/Mundaka-Surf-Guide/169/ , http://www.thecleanestline.com/2015/06/mundaka-surf-but-dont-touch.html , and https://vimeo. com/55593735 .

Not only is the wave prefect, but it's backed up an environmentally "pure" estuary that's a UNESCO world biosphere reserve -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdaibai_estuary , http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natura...reserves/europe-north-america/spain/urdaibai/ , http://community.worldheritage.org/articles/Urdaibai , http://www.spain.info/en_GB/que-qui...rales/reserva_de_la_biosfera_de_urdaibai.html , http://www.bilbaoturismo.net/BilbaoTurismo/en/reserva-de-la-biosfera-urdaibai , http://www.basquecountry-tourism.com/nature-urdaibai.php , and https://www.google.com/maps/place/43°22'00.0"N+2°41'00.0"W/@43.3666667,-2.6833333,10z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 :







The Mundaka wave was almost permanently destroyed in 2003 when a local ship-building company dredged a huge amount of sand to form a channel, completely changing the hydrodynamics of the estuary. Luckily, after three years the sandbar that produced the wave recovered, and local businesses dependent on surf-tourism during the winter (the peak season is January) have since become a powerful lobbying group-- see http://www.spiegel.de/international/surfing-in-mundaka-a-famous-wave-returns-to-spain-a-441560.html . They had a lost a fortune in surfing-related revenue when the wave disappeared. The long-term future of the wave is still not completely secure, but there's now enough awareness of its unique geographical and economic importance, that it seems very unlikely that a repeat of the stupidity of 2003 will occur again.

The Basque country is much more heavily populated and "developed" than the coast further west, Lugo in Galicia in particular:







But still, thought I should include some videos of Mundaka, because many consider it the best wave on the Iberian peninsula, and perhaps the best wave in Europe.

Spain is a reasonably safe country, from a crime point of view, so “wild camping” on the northern coast shouldn’t be much of a problem, during the winter months specifically. And especially as one drives west, and the coast become progressively ever more "wild".


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Those habituated to vacationing in Italy or on the Mediterranean coastline of Spain may find all of the above hard to believe, and I can understand why.

More than 90 % of the Italian and Spanish Mediterranean coasts have been ruined by reckless development, with one ticky-tacky 2 or 3-star tiny hotel after another, interspersed with equally ticky-tacky restaurants and "condominiums". The same is true for most of the Mediterranean coast of France. It's as if a continuous "strip city" just 100 m deep, but 10,000 km long, runs from Gibraltar to Barcelona, Barcelona to Nice, Nice down to Rome all the way to Reggio Calabria, and then up the eastern coast of Italy to Venice, and then Trieste. Over 90 % of the coastline that I just described has been developed.

I don't know Mediterranean Spain that well. I've driven it, but I haven't examined it with a veritable microscope, the way that I have Italy's coastline. On mainland Italy, the only places that are even remotely comparable to the images posted above of the northern Spanish coastline, are areas that were set aside as parks or reserves of one kind or another.

For instance, near Pisa there's the Parco Regionale Migliarino San Rossore Massaciuccoli, created out of an old Royal Hunting preserve – see http://www.parcosanrossore.org .

Further down the coast of Tuscany, south of Livorno, most of the coastline is owned by the Corpo Forestale dello Stato, so things begin to feel more “natural”, with large beaches backed up by significant forest – see http://www.corpoforestale.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/1 . Things get especially “wild” and natural-looking in the “Maremma”, the folk-name for an area of Tuscany situated in the province of Grosetto – see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maremma , https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maremma , https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maremma_Grossetana , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Grosseto , and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosseto :







This part of the Italian coast remained relatively natural and undeveloped primarily because of malaria. Historically speaking it was underpopulated, and only became viable as a tourist destination once malaria had been eradicated. And by that time, most of the coastal forest had become the possession of the state.

The Maremma Regional Park is truly spectacular -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maremma_Regional_Park , https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parco_naturale_della_Maremma , http://www.parco-maremma.it , http://www.parco-maremma.it/en.html , http://www.parco-maremma.it/index.php/en , http://www.parco-maremma.it/en/fotogallery.html , https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cala_di_Forno , http://www.parco-maremma.it/it/a4-cala-di-forno.html , http://www.parks.it/parco.maremma/ , http://www.parks.it/parco.maremma/Eindex.php , and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/d...ide-Parco-Naturale-della-Maremma-Tuscany.html :









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Although it's a Regional Park, the land is actually owned by the Vivarelli Colonna family, who rent out apartments and buildings in a large complex situated inside the park, directly on Cala di Forno, one of the most famous beaches in Italy, pictured directly above -- see http://www.fattoriadelcollecchio.it/eng/ , http://www.fattoriadelcollecchio.it/eng/the-apartments/ , http://www.fattoriadelcollecchio.it/eng/the-beach-houses/ , http://www.fattoriadelcollecchio.it/eng/activities/ , http://www.fattoriadelcollecchio.it/eng/history-and-tradition/ , http://www.fattoriadelcollecchio.it/eng/photo/ , and http://www.fattoriadelcollecchio.it/eng/prices/ .

Note that their website gives no "off-season" prices, because the after September, the area becomes virtually dead until the following summer. So who knows: given the size of their property, they may be perfectly willing to allow a genuinely autonomous, self-sustaining expedition motorhome to "glamp" on Cala di Forno.....:sombrero:

For me, Grosetto is perhaps the most beautiful coastal region in all of mainland Italy, and there's plenty to do in Grosetto in Spring and Fall, outside the summer vacation season. For instance, there are countless sites of archeological interest, because Grosetto is where the Etruscans lived. The Etruscans left thousands of tombs and ruined cities. The city of Grosetto is beautiful, and its medieval town walls are still intact. The wider province of Grosetto has wonderful natural attractions like the Saturnia hot springs and Monte Amiata, one of the highest mountains in Tuscany, and the second-highest volcano in Italy after Etna -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnia , http://www.discovertuscany.com/maremma/thermal-baths-of-saturnia.html , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Amiata , https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Amiata , http://www.parcoamiata.com , http://www.monte-amiata.com , and http://www.monte-amiata.eu/english/home.asp . But note that other non-volcanic mountains in Tuscany are higher -- see http://peakery.com/italy-mountains/tuscany/ :







When people ask me, "What is the most beautiful region in Tuscany?", my reply is immediate and unqualified: "Grosetto. Not Cortona, and not Chianti."

Grosetto is also one of the few places in Italy -- indeed, in the entire Mediterranean -- that has some genuine surf, in the Golfo di Baratti specifically -- see http://www.maremmaguide.com/maremma-surf.html :








And again, the surf is best during the "off-season" of the winter, when strong winds blow down from the north and the west, across the Ligurian Sea.

Technically speaking, the Golfo di Baratti is not actually in Grosetto province proper, but rather, it's in Livorno province -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Livorno . But the Golfo di Baratti "feels" much more like Grosetto, so that's why I described it as such. As one drives down the coast from Livorno the landscape becomes progressively more wild and forested, and this is especially noticeable after one drives past San Vicenzo and/or the nearby hill-town of Campiglia Marittima. From there onwards, it feels like one is is traveling back in time 30 or 40 years, because the landscape becomes so rural and heavily forested.


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In this area one can also find beach-side RV parks with substantial camping pitches, pitches with views of the Mediterranean. See for instance the Punta Ala Camping Village, at http://english.campingpuntala.it/camping_tuscany_italy.asp , http://english.campingpuntala.it/punta_ala_castiglione_della_pescaia.asp , http://english.campingpuntala.it/tuscany_holiday_accommodation.asp , http://english.campingpuntala.it/maremma_beach.asp , and http://english.campingpuntala.it/file/download/map.pdf :






As an alternative in the same area, also see http://www.baiaverde.com/grosseto-maremma/campsite-tuscany-italy/ , http://www.baiaverde.com/grosseto-maremma/campsite-tuscany-italy/pitches.asp , http://www.baiaverde.com/grosseto-maremma/campsite-tuscany-italy/campsite.asp , http://www.baiaverde.com/grosseto-maremma/campsite-tuscany-italy/caravans.asp , and http://www.baiaverde.com/grosseto-maremma/campsite-tuscany-italy/photo-gallery.asp .

Notice how on the map there are pitches for caravans right beside the beach. There's also a Legambiente Guida Blu "4-sail" beach called "Cala Violina" just north of this RV park, a beach that is completely surrounded by especially thick and extensive forest -- https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cala_Violina , http://www.maremmaguide.com/cala-violina.html , http://www.legambiente.it/guida-blu/2015 (type in "Scarlino"), http://legambienteturismo.it/2013/08/cala-violina-gr/ , http://www.legambiente.it/contenuti/articoli/guida-blu-2015 , http://www.touringclub.it/news/guida-blu-2015-ecco-il-mare-piu-bello-ditalia , http://www.touringclub.it/news/guida-blu-2015-ecco-il-mare-piu-bello-ditalia , and http://www.amazon.it/Guida-blu-2013/dp/8836562884/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_1 :








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Don't get the wrong idea: most beaches in Italy are absolutely not like this. They bear no resemblance whatsoever to this beach! It's a truly exceptional beach, located in the midst of a truly exceptional bit of Italian mainland coastline. Again, over 90 % of that coastline has been wrecked, and does not look like this at all.

Of course, during the summer season both this beach and the RV park down the coast are packed with families. The RV park even runs small boat-shuttles to Cala Violina, because the only other way to get to the beach is by an arduous trail through the forest. But from mid-September to May both Cala Violina and the RV park completely empty out. So the TerraLiner might be able to make arrangements with the RV park to glamp for a few months, at very low cost. This would be even closer to the good surfing in the Golfo di Baratti. There's also a very friendly, helpful surf + kite-surfing shop in Follonica, a small beach town just up the coast -- see http://surfrelax.it , http://surfrelax.it/contatti/ , and https://www.facebook.com/puntonebeach .

The owner of "SurfRelax" is a big enthusiast for traditional "Hawaiian-style" surfing, and he runs up to Baratti beach whenever the northwest wind is blowing and swell is up. But needless to say, the whole Grosetto coast is major kite-surfing country, and "surfing" shops along the coast are basically "kite-surfing" shops, filled with kite-surfing gear.

Also see the strip of coast just south of Talamone and the Maremma Regional Park, which is also full of forested camping sites -- see http://www.talamonecampingvillage.com/en/ , http://www.talamonecampingvillage.com/download/talamone_planimetria.pdf , http://www.talamonecampingvillage.com/en/resort-tuscany-sea.asp , http://www.talamonecampingvillage.com/en/gallery.asp , , http://www.talamonecampingvillage.com/en/gallery53-parco-beach.asp , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq7BsK77btg , http://www.campeggioacapulco.com/about/ , http://www.campeggioacapulco.com/piazzole/ , http://www.voltoncino.it/en/ , http://www.voltoncino.it/en/voltoncino/area-campeggio.asp , etc. etc. There's a whole bunch of them:






But once past Orbitello and the Agrigento peninsula at the very bottom of Grosseto province, the Italian coast begins to build up again with ticky-tacky development. It's ticky-tacky all the way down past Rome and past Naples, until one reaches Reggio Calabria.

Sure, there are a few "bright spots" here and there, like the Almafi Coast, Maratea (located in Basilicata), and Tropea (located in Calabria). There is beautiful coastline on the Cilento peninsula south of Salerno, where Hemingway wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" in a fishing village. But that's only because it's a national park -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilento , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parco_Nazionale_del_Cilento,_Vallo_di_Diano_e_Alburni , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parco_Nazionale_del_Cilento,_Vallo_di_Diano_e_Alburni , http://www.parks.it/parco.nazionale.cilento/Eindex.php , and http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/italys-cilento-coast . Aside from such exceptions, the entire coastline from Rome down has also been ruined. Yes, I've driven it.

It's the same on the eastern coastline of Italy, facing Croatia. Again, most of the coastline has been ruined by ticky-tacky development catering to middle-class tourism -- Rimini is especially wretched.... ...The only exceptions are the few areas that have been set aside as natural parks, for instance, the Gargano Peninsula – see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargano and http://www.parks.it/parco.nazionale.gargano/Epar.php . There are also a few bits of unspoiled coastline in Puglia, Basilicata, and Calabria, i.e. the latter two when facing the Gulf of Taranto.

Sicily is much the same, most of it ruined except bits here and there set aside as coastal parkland. Only on Sardegna will one find Mediterranean coastline with huge beaches and farms still directly abutting the sea.

Still, all of the above suggests that even on a coastline as ruined as the Western Mediterranean, if one is willing to travel out-of-season (i.e. from September 15th to May or June), one would be able to find some beautiful, still reasonably natural places to glamp on unspoiled, uncrowded beaches thick with trees. Yes, even on the mainland Mediterranean coasts of Spain, France, and Italy, if one knows where to look.

To say nothing of Croatia, Greece, and Albania, where huge stretches of mainland coastline are still either forest or farmland, and have remained "undeveloped".


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Now when it comes to huge, wide, flat, empty rural beaches of the kind one finds in northern Spain or Australia, a question will also arise: camp directly on the beach? Or behind it, on tarmac or grass? For smaller 4x4 SUV-based or small-truck-based campers, with large, wide wheels, direct on-the-beach camping is certainly a possibility, and seems incredibly romantic:









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But one can also imagine why if spots on grass or at the roadside were also available, these might prove just as good or better, enjoying the shade of trees, for instance:








This red and white 6x6 is called “Nyathi”. On my own view it's by far the most elegant, evocative, and downright beautiful Landrover conversion that Foley (a British Landrover specialist) has yet produced – see http://foleysv.com , http://foleysv.com/land-rover-conversions and http://foleysv.com/land-rover-conversions/land-rover-130-defender . Or, for that matter, that I have personally seen anywhere. For me, Nyathi is the very archetype of the overlanding Landrover, and one of the desktop images on my MacBook Pro is a photograph of Nyathi..... See http://foleysv.com/fellow-overlanders , http://www.expeditionoverland.com , http://www.expeditionoverland.com/preparation.htm , http://www.expeditionoverland.com/the_vehicle.htm , and http://www.expeditionoverland.com/index.htm .

When Nyathi finally finished its tour in 2005, it had seen 62 countries, and travelled 120,000 km. The above are merely a few of the beach-camping images available on Nyathi's exhaustive website.


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