Nick Upton / Winged / Wavyleaved sea lavender (Limonium sinuatum) flowering on rocky slope above a beach, with the Aegean Sea in the background, Kalo Limani, Lesbos / Lesvos Greece, June.

Philippe Clement / Rocky Kerlouan coastline at Menez Ham / Menez Hom. Brittany, France, September 2010.

Steve Nicholls / Rock samphire (Crithmum maritimum) growing on rocky beach, Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset, UK, September

Nick Upton / Waves breaking on rocky granitic coastline on a rough, windy day. Campomoro Point, near Propriano, Corsica, France, June 2010.

LYNN M. STONE / Yellow Labrador Retriever sitting on sand along rocky beach. Monterey Peninsula, California, USA, February.

LYNN M. STONE / Yellow Labrador Retriever sitting on sand along rocky beach. Monterey Peninsula, California, USA, February.

Kevin Schafer / Rocky shore in fog, Punihuil Bay, Pacific Coast, Chiloe Island, Chile

LYNN M. STONE / Male Basset Hound, standing on rock on rocky beach; Ventura, California, USA

Alan Williams / Snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) on rocky beach, Dee Estuary, UK, February

Peter Lewis / Old wooden piles on rocky shorline of Lindisfarne with castle in the background. Holy Island, Northumberland, UK

Inaki Relanzon / Aerial view of the island of Nosy Tanikely with sandy beach on one side and rocky coast on the other, near Nosy Be, North Madagascar.

Steven Kazlowski / Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) relaxing on a rocky beach on the western Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Southern Ocean