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15 Weirdest Beaches on Earth

 
• From sand of unnatural colours to a spot where cow and human frolic in harmony, wecount fifteen of the world’s weirdest beaches! 15 – Hyams Beach,• Australia is renowned for its many pristine beaches, but it’s Hyams Beach in JervisBay that boasts an official entry in the Guinness Book of Records entry for the whitest sandin the world.  • Visitors to the beach say it’s likegetting snow in summertime – a rarity in the southern hemisphere. • Hyams faces east and runs perpendicular with, err, Point Perpendicular.  It’s quietand receives minimal swell, making it a safe spot for families. • Hyams also boasts snorkelling in its clear blue waters.  It appeals to surfers, anglers,divers, walkers, nature-lovers and white-sand fanatics. 14 – Gulpiyuri Beach, • Gulpiyuri Beach is a flooded sinkholewithin an inland beach located near Llanes in the northern coast of Spain. • This small, shell-shaped beach has a length of around 40 metres and is located in themiddle of a meadow.  • Gulpiyuri Beach is a miracle of naturethat features a golden stretch of sand and crystal-clear, fully tidal waters.  A seriesof underground tunnels carved by the salt water of the Cantabrian Sea allows water fromthe Bay of Biscay to create small waves.  • This well-hidden beach is a popular touristdestination and part of Spain’s Network of Protected Natural Areas. 13 – Vik Beach, • Vik Beach is a stunning black sand andpebble beach near Iceland’s rainy, southernmost point.  You wouldn’t want to go sunbathingthere, but you might enjoy a spot of sightseeing at Katla Volcano, which neighbours the beach. • Volcanic activity is common in Iceland and Vik Beach’s black sand is believed tohave been caused by hot lava which has flowed into the frigid ocean. • Vik Beach was nominated one of the most beautiful beaches on Earth in 1991.  It featuresstunning rugged landscape, strange rock formations and its jet black sand contrasts the foamywhite waves.  The area is also home to a large population of puffins. 12 – Hot Water Beach, • New Zealand’s Hot Water Beach is so-calledbecause of its incredible underground hot springs, which filter up through the sand,creating natural jacuzzis.  • Hot Water Beach is a part of CoromandelPeninsula and is found just a short distance from Whitianga. • The beach is a huge tourist magnet, and visitors can rent spades and buckets to digtheir own personal hot tub.  The naturally heated mineral water bubbles up from deepdown below and can sometimes reach temperatures as hot as 64 degrees Celsius. • With the ebb and flow of the tide, all pools are completely washed away, creatinga fresh canvas for the next group of spa-seekers.  11 – Genipabu Beach,• Genipabu Beach, located in Natal, Brazil, is famous for its monstrously large sand dunes. • Standing amidst giant sandy ridges, travellers would be forgiven for thinking they’re inthe middle of a desert – or even Star Wars’ Tatooine.  Fortunately, the Atlantic Oceanis just minutes away.  • Thrillseekers can explore the dunes inseveral ways.  They can climb aboard a buggy for a roller coaster–style adventure, lopeabout Lawrence of Arabia-style on the back of a camel, or carve it up with a spot ofsandboarding.  10 – Barking Sand Beach,• Hawaii’s famous Barking Sand Beach in Kauai gets its name from the peculiar barkingsound that occurs when visitors walk across its sand.  The distinct sound occurs when theseunique sand granules, which are made from a particular type of quartz, rub together. • Dogs reportedly love this beach.  They can have stimulating conversations that lastfor hours.  • Scientists documenting this barking phenomenonhave determined that the sand is hollow.  • To make matters stranger, Barking SandsBeach also features a rocket-launch site and missile-defence testing centre. 9 – Maho Beach, • Maho Beach is part of the Caribbean Islandof St Maarten, and is famed for the low-flying planes which frequent it while on route tothe adjacent Princess Juliana International Airport.  Arriving aircraft must touch downclose to the start of Runway 10, which causes them to soar over the beach at minimal altitude. • Naturally, this has become a huge tourist attraction, with beach-goers flocking to takeamazing selfies with the airborne planes.  • However, while being very close to jumbojets landing and taking off seems thrilling, viral footage of a woman getting injured byjet blast in 2013 shows there could be some risk. • Adding to the weirdness, a nearby bar broadcasts the transmissions between air trafficcontrol and the pilots to everyone on the beach. 8 – Shell Beach, • As its name suggests, Shell Beach in WesternAustralia’s Shark’s Bay is not a sand beach.  This unique beach is instead coveredby trillions of tiny bleached white shells – which are, in some places, up to 33 feetdeep, according to Australia’s Coral Coast Tourism board. • These shells come from the Hamelin Cockle clam, a mollusc species with an abundant localpopulation, owing to it is high salt concentration tolerance.  Other species don’t cope wellin the high salinity, which gives the Hamelin Cockle a sort of magic salt water barrierfor protection, allowing it to proliferate without threat from its natural predators. • Amazingly, Shell Beach is one of only two shell beaches in the world. 7 – San Alfonso Del Mar, • San Alfonso Del Mar is a Chilean beachsituated between the world’s biggest swimming pool and ocean. • None of the most memorable hotel pools on Earth can compete with this enormous man-madepool that’s bigger than twenty Olympic-sized pools, set along the coastline, and holdsa whopping 66 million gallons of water.  • The pool isn’t just long; it's deep. At 115 feet, it holds the Guinness World Record for deepest pool and costs a staggering twomillion pounds to upkeep every year.  • This nearly twenty-acre pool syphons waterdirectly from the sea using computer-controlled suction and filtration systems. 6 – Papakōlea Beach, • Located on the southern tip of Hawaii'sBig Island, Papakōlea Beach is better known to most as Green Sand Beach.  The emerald-colouredsand on this beach is caused by tiny olivine crystals, which formed as a result of lavacooling in the sea.  • The density of the olivine crystals preventsthe tide from washing them away, creating a striking olive-green accumulation alongthe coastline.  • Papakōlea Beach is the same distancefrom both Kona and Hilo, and is apparently well worth the almost two-and-a-half-hourdrive on Highway 11.  The Beach can also be reached via a two-mile hike taken along theUSA’s southernmost point.  Apparently, many people will go to great lengths for a glimpseof it – although, to be fair, it is one of only four beaches in the world with IncredibleHulk-coloured sand.  5 – Crosby Beach,• Crosby Beach is part of the Merseyside coastline north of Liverpool and might justbe the creepiest of these weird and wonderful beaches.  Walking along it, you may be struckwith the unshakeable feeling that you’re not alone.  That’s because wherever you goon this beach, you’re surrounded by more than 100 lifelike cast-iron human figurines. • These statues make up a life art exhibition called Another Place.  They were made and castby sculptor Anthony Gormley, whose own naked form is immortalised in a statue. • At high tide, the statues sink into ocean, only to rise again when the tide recedes. 4 – Anjuna Beach, • Located about eighteen kilometres fromPanaji, Anjuna Beach is part of a thirty-kilometre beach coastline along the west coast of Goaby the Arabian sea.  • It’s a favourite haunt for hippies,who use it to host famous rave parties.  But that’s not all that makes this beach famous. • The majestic bovine is a sacred beast in many corners of the world, and in Goa,India, they even get their own beach.  • At Anjuna Beach – commonly known asCow Beach – the dunes and waters are shared by flocks of tourists and herds of cows.  Itmakes for a pretty surreal sight, but everyone coexists peacefully. 3 – Maldives Beach, • It looks like some impossible sci-fi fairytale, but the lights on this Maldives beach are completely real, and are caused by microscopicbioluminescent phytoplankton, which give off light when agitated by the surf and reactingwith the oxygen in sea water.  • When jostled, these organisms give offflashes of blue light that are thought to be brighter than the Milky Way. • This natural phenomenon is a type of chemical reaction called bio-luminescence and is rarelyseen close to land.  It is usually only seen further out at sea when ships stir up thesea bed.  • Waves lapping the shoreline in this areahave been described as sheets of lightning.  • This phenomenon is found in a handfulof other places around the world.  2 – Hidden Beach,• On the Marietas Islands in Mexico’s Puerto Vallarta, there is a hidden, sandybeach called Playa de Amor or ‘Hidden Beach’.  What makes this beach special? Nothing much– it’s just the world’s most picturesque bomb site. • In the 1900s, the Mexican Government used the islands as a military testing site.  Controlleddetonations are believed to have carved out chunks of the rocky landscape, creating thishidden, picturesque beach and a system of caves.  Of course, erosion and local weatherconditions deserve credit for their contributions, too. • Swimmers can access the beach via a fifty-metre swim through an island water tunnel.  Fortunately,it is not an underwater tunnel, making it accessible to everyone. • Amusingly, the beach wasn’t very popular until the dawn of social media.  Now visitorsflock from all over the world to catch glimpses of the spectacular native marine life. 1 – Glass Beach, • Sometimes humans are the worst.  In the1940s, Fort Bragg residents used this Californian beach as a public dumping ground.  They threwtheir household garbage, appliances and even vehicles over cliffs simply because they feltlike it.  • But sometimes humans are the best! Naturehas seen fit to correct man’s mistakes.  The public dumping was discontinued in 1967and, over the course of several decades, the crashing surf smoothed these discarded glassshards into gleaming pebbles.  Glass Beach is the result, and features a surreal-lookingshoreline littered with smooth shards of this sea glass. • The beach is now visited by thousands of tourists every year, and a Glass Festivalis held annually on Memorial Day weekend.  Although these sea gems are incredible tolook at, visitors are forbidden to take them home. 

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