what type of soft sand..where?,and the color, and the heat or coolness, etc...mostly I want to know the colors (the oddest of colors for sand that you have seen or noticed on a beach area),
also, fine granules or really rocky rocks and shells all over the beach and or lava rocks, etc....or sea glass, or anything else, i,e. sand dollars and driftwood, etc....
I just want to know what you have seen all around the world!
thanks!
2007-05-28 13:36:54 · 7 answers · asked by ladyk 2 in Travel ➔ Other - Destinations
I have visited three continents........and found the best sand in Sardinia ,Italy.
2007-06-05 12:04:02 · answer #1 · answered by Tom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I stayed on St. Lucia, the sand was black from volcanic ash. It was the worst sand I have ever encountered.
I live on the other side of a peninisula from the Atlantic Ocean where there are wonderful rocks and colored sea glass for some of the year. Just around now, the beach shifts and we end up with miles of pretty white sand. My favorite place to enter the beach is up a path between the sand dunes where there are the most remarkable views of the ocean and beach on one side and the salt river and marshes on the other. At this time of year both the dune grass and the marshes are lovely shades of green!
2007-05-28 13:55:46 · answer #2 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NJ beaches have a large variety.
Wildwood- has flower like sand very tiny- very granulated, shades of pure white, cream and tan can be found
Seaside- yellow thicker (regular) sand
Sandy Hook- crushed shells thicker sand (colors- yellowish to white)
Hawaii-
Black sand- lava rocks
Green sand- fine (I believe they came from coral reef)
Red sand- also very granular from lava rock
Barking Sand- (yes actually a place in Oahu - the tough, thicker sand = as you walk on it the sand actually sounds like it's barking at you!
Puerto Rico-
Crushed shells, if you hold them up, you will see various different shells/ rocks it was made out of.
Portugal
Rock beach- strange but the entire coastline of this magical beach were stones- no sand.
2007-05-29 03:35:18 · answer #3 · answered by theman134 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one beach that stands out for me is Punaluu on the Big Island of Hawaii. It was beautiful black sand (actually glass), very warm as black absorbs the sun's heat, w/a sea turtle sunning itself on the beach and other's nibbling moss off the rocks in the surf. The Big Island also has red sand and green sand beaches (though I haven't seen them).
2007-05-28 14:03:49 · answer #4 · answered by Taffy Saltwater 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny thing is, I've never found such a perfect precision made device in nature. Nature is sloppy, which is why human eyes aren't nearly as good of a design as those of an octopus, why humans are often born - or die before birth - from defects, etc. So based on what I've observed in nature, there was either an incompetent designer or none at all. You pick. BTW, just as another note on the inanity of this example, if a stick falls point-down into the sand, its force will create a perfectly-sized hole, as any moron should know, if that stick wasn't somewhere else.
2016-05-20 02:04:33 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sand in Cancun Mexico is white, and cool to the touch. It is pleasant to walk on cool sand under a very hot sun.
2007-06-04 02:33:44 · answer #6 · answered by Joan C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have seen many beaches and the best sand in my opinion is in the Bradenton area in florida.
2007-06-04 15:51:34 · answer #7 · answered by Shark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋