- Hyams Beach in Australia.
WHITE – The famous Hyams Beach in Australia owes its snow white color to lots of tiny coral fragments.
- Honokalani Black Sand Beach, Maui – Hawaii.
BLACK – In the Waianapanapa State Park, in the wonderful Maui Island, Hawaii, there is a small but particular Honokalani Black Sand Beach, made of black sand due to a flow dating back to thousand years ago.
- Vaadhoo beach, Maldives.
BLUE – Vaadhoo beach is located in the namesake island, in the north archipelago of Maldievs. The famous “bright waves” are caused by the bioluminescence phenomenon where small organisms emanate this amazing blue light.
- Glass Beach, Fort Bragg – California.
MULTICOLOR – Named “the dump” at the beginning of the XX century, this beach was, in fact, just a dump. Following an awkward and difficult reclamation, Mother Nature regained her places and with the patient sea-force all the glass rubbles on the beach has been smoothed. The beach is now called Glass Beach.
- Mahana Green Sand Beach at Papakolea Bay, South Point, Ka’u Hawaii: Photo by Donald B. MacGowan
GREEN – Known as Mahana Beach or Papakōlea Beach this beach has a particular green color due to the presence of the olivine mineral in the volcanic cone.
- Xi beach, Kefalonia – Grecia.
ORANGE – In the Kefalonia island there is a wonderful orange beach, Xi beach, that takes its name by the Greek alphabeth letter having the same shape.
- Horseshoe Bay Beach, Isole Bermuda.
PINK – One of the most famous beaches of Bermuda Island, the Horseshoe Bay Beach, is colored by a particular pink color thanks to small corals and shells fragments.
- Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, California.
PURPLE – Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, has a purple color because of garnet.
- Red sand beach, Santorini.
RED – In the Akrotiri area in Santorini, this intense red color is because of the behind lava cliff.
- Camogli, Italia.
© Ph. Fabrizio Biasotti
GREY- Camogli beach in Liguria is a long expanse of grey pebbles.
