The most unusual beaches
Very interesting and informative story about the unusual beaches of the world.Lyme Regis - Beach L'Age Jurassic Jurassic located in the English county of West Dorset, near the village of Lyme Regis. Of course, there are no dinosaurs, but coastal rocks contain many fossils of ancient mollusks ammonites. According to experts the age of the fossils of more than 185 million years. As a result of frequent landslides on the surface appear more and more remains of the ancient inhabitants of the planet and to find them, you can do without special archaeological sites. Which, of course, very convenient.
Beach and caves in Portugal, in the Algarve town, is an extraordinary beautiful beach. Adorn its labyrinth of caves pleasant yellow.
Kaihalulu Red Beach on Maui on the eastern coast of the island of Maui in Hawaii Kaihalulu the creek, which translated means "the roar of the sea."Despite the reef that protects the bay, coastal waves here are high enough and really noisy. Dark red sand, sometimes turning into red, came here because of the old volcanic eruption Cauca. And even here it is very difficult to get through a narrow and steep path, this place is frequented by people.
Glass Beach, Fort Bragg, California, the average person, throwing garbage, negative impact on nature. Piles of garbage ruining not only the air, soil and water, but also cause aesthetic damage to the natural beauty. But rarely, but still there are exceptions - garbage creates beauty. There is one interesting place - Glass Beach, Fort Bragg, California, USA (Glass Beach, Fort Bragg, CA, USA). Surprisingly this place is its unusual beach. In the first half of the XX century in the territory where this beach was a dump. In the 60 years of the dump was closed, and since then the trash was left to himself. Mountains of broken glass, plastic and other debris and lay on the beach under the warm rays of the Californian, washed and blown surf sea breezes. It turns out the garbage too may eventually become beautiful.
Purple Beach Another beautiful beach in the U.S., California, it's called - Pfeiffer Beach. His purple-pink color it due to the presence in the neighboring hills mineral spessartine (variety of garnet), and manganese, which flushed out by rainwater, creates whimsical drawings on the beach, giving it the unusual purple.
Green Beach Pakolepea Beach Papakolea (Papakolea Beach) is also called the green sand beach. It is located in South Point on the island of Hawaii.Surrounding ash cone of crystals attached beach chrysolite green. If you look from a distance to the beach, it will seem quite green, but if you take a handful of sand and look closely, you'll see more golden hues of the crystals. Aborigines call this mineral "Hawaiian diamond."
Gold Beach. Malta has a sand beach Ramla with a hint of orange in color, but in the translation from Maltese "ramla" actually means "red." It is this beach mentioned in the "Odyssey" by Homer - is spending time in prison from the outside world in the cave Odysseus nymph Calypso - cave remained on the island - before his famous voyage.