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Qingdao Beach is algae free

by Sail-World Asia on 13 Jul 2008
Sunday afternoon at the beach July 13th 2008 Qingdao Doyle Sails Qingdao China
Mark Fullerton of Doyle Sails Australia and Doyle Sails Qingdao China, was not on Bondi Beach today. He was on the algae free main beach of the resort city of Qingdao in eastern Shandong province in China.

He writes 'Well the beach was a very different scene this afternoon.



'Most of the algae has been cleaned up, the army is starting to leave and 1000's of people flocked to the beach for a very nice warm afternoon.



'The small amounts of algae left is being used for decoration to kids sandcastles.


'And to spell out 'Beijing 2008' in Chinese.'

The Olympic sailing regatta starts in Fushan Bay on August 9th 2008.

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