Over 13,000 residents call this small beach community their home.

It put a more grisly cast on the image of the beach community.

People love visiting these wealthy and exclusive beach communities, to see how the other half lives.

It's a very small beach community, but well traveled by foreigner.

For residents of a healthy, thriving beach community, bigger is not better.

The debate - to develop or not - is familiar to many beach communities.

In less than half an hour they had passed the main shopping area of the famous beach community.

Families split up every year, as the wives and children left the heat of the city to go out to the beach communities.

"My goal was always to leave corporate America, live in a beach community and have a bookstore," he said.

The town is therefore home to a wide array of beach communities.