12 INCREDIBLE BEACHES AROUND THE WORLD
Beaches come in far more different shapes and colors than some of us might have expected.
One of the most striking differences in many of these beaches are different sand colors, sand is formed out of whatever the waves bangs against the shore, be it rocks, shells, corals or glass.
Here are 12 beaches that in one way or the other might not be anything like the beaches you are used to:
1. Unique Class Beach, California
It is near Fort Bragg in California after the trash dumped there for years by local resident was pounded into sand by the surf, the dumping was eventually prohibited, but the glass sand remains.
2. Beach of the Cathedrals, Ribadeo, Spain
This beach were formed by pounding water over thousands upon thousands years.
3. Hidden Beach, Marieta, Mexico
It was formed after the Mexican government used the uninhabited islands for target practice in the 1900s.
4. Maldives Beach
The light on the beach in the Maldives are caused by microscopic bio-luminescent phyto plankton, which give off light when they are agitated by the surf.
5. Pink Sand Beach, Bahamas
The pink sand is pigmented by washed-up coral remnants.
6. Jokulsarlon, Iceland
The black volcanic sand on the Icelandic beach contrasts beautifully with the white and glassy chunks of ice.
7. Green Sand in Kouron, French Guiana
It is caused by the mineral olivine which is formed by lava as it cools in the sea.
8. Giants Causeway Beach, Ireland
This was formed 50-60 million years ago when basalt lava rose to the surface and cooled,cracking into strange, large columns.
9. Punaluu Black Sand Beach, Hawaii
The black sand is formed by basalt lava, which explodes as it flows into the sea and rapidly cools.
10. Shell Beach, Shark Bay Australia
Shell beach in Australia is so saline and this abundance of molluscs that floods the beaches with their shells.
11. Pfeiffer Purple Sand Beach, California
This purple sand beach was formed when manganese garnet deposits in the surrounding hills erode into the sea.























