Beach is the favorite destination during summer days. Whether you like to swim, make sandcastles, pick up some lovely shells or even just sit and relax while enjoying the sea breeze, beach is the first place to think of. While most of us are excitedly waiting for the summer to come, we do plans on which beach to visit to. We want to spend our summer vacation as memorable and enjoyable as possible.
Have you ever been in an unusual beach before? Or have you ever imagined that there are different beach out there, other than the sandy black or white beach? Yes, there are! Check these 17 amazing and extraordinary beaches, and maybe someday you may want to consider visiting one of these.
Maldives Beach
This beach looks like there are real stars on the sandy shore. These lights on the shore are the small creatures called bioluminescent phytoplankton that are gathered together.
The Beach of the Cathedrals
This beach is situated in Ribadeo Spain. Over the years, the water continuously blows on rocks and created the looks of a cathedral architecture.
Hidden Beach
Playa Del Amor or more commonly known as the Hidden Beach, is a structure of one of the Marieta Islands, west of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, at the mouth of Banderas Bay. This is a result of volcanic eruption.
Maho Beach
This beach in Saint Martin looks like an everyday beautiful beach, that is, until a plane nearly knocks people down into the sand. People visit this beach just to feel the extreme turbulence created by the airplanes.
Jokulsarlon
This beach in Iceland has the black volcanic sand, which cast a dark backdrop to the chunks of ice that litter the sandy shores like crystals.
Punalu’u Beach
Punalu’u Beach or also called Black Sand Beach is a beach located in Hawaii The beach has black sand made of basalt lava flows to the sea. It is also known for their endangered green turtles basking on the black sand.
Grass Beach
This beach situated in Kourou, French Guiana is a beach of grass instead of sand.
Glass Beach
Located near Fort Bragg in California, Glass Beach looks cool due to its glassy shores. History says that many years ago, residents used to dump their trash in this water, thus, the glass on the shore line is from the trash materials.
Vik Beach
This beach in Iceland has weird rock formations that stick out of the sea called Reynisdrangar. This makes the beach so popular and attractive to the visitors.
Cave Beach
Situated in Algarve, Portugal, the limestone rock is easily eroded by the constant force of water, and resulted to this amazing structure.
Pink Sand Beach
This beach is in The Bahamas. The pink sand on this beach are formed by loose chunks of coral broken down in the ocean and then washed ashore by the waves.
Dragon Eggs – at Koekohe Beach
Known as the Moreaki Boulders, this is located in New Zealand. These unique rock formations were once surrounded by other land that has since washed away.
Giants Causeway Beach
This beach is located in Ireland. History says that this formation occurred over 50 million years ago when basalt lava rose to the surface, and after cooling down it began to crack into the amazing formations we see today.
Papakolea Green Sand Beach
This green sand beach can be found in Hawaii. This is green because of the surrounding volcanic mountains which have erupted in the past.
Shell Beach
It is situated in Shark Bay, Australia. Because of the saline natural of the water, the clams’ predators do not live in the area, thus clams population had increased tremendously.
Red Sand Beach
This is at Rabida, Galapagos. This red sand beach was due to the oxidization of iron-rich lava and washed-up pieces of coral.
Pfeiffer Purple Sand Beach
This purple beach can be found in California. This was created by manganese garnet deposits which fall down from the eroded hillsides.
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