Photography Competition #52: The Beach

That's because it's not really sand per se, it's coral dust. Hence why it doesn't hurt to walk on it when it's scorching hot outside unlike regular sand

Same here. Me and my sister and parents went to Hawaii in 1998 and got some good beach pictures, but they are all in photo albums at my parents house 1100 miles away. And all the beaches around where I live are rocky with big pine trees right out to the water. I think it is time for a creative twist.....

I wonder if anyone's ever thought about making some sort of silicon out of coral dust.

You could be the first to try

When we did our trip to Hawaii I thought it was interesting that most of the sand there actually is shipped in from other beaches around the world, which means that a lot of the beaches in Hawaii are fake. My parents went again a few years ago and went to the big island and visited a couple black sand beaches and even one on another island where the sand was actually green.

Okay, I've fixed my image and it is attached.

I think I know the one you mean.

(excuse the poor 'shoop, I start uni in 20 minutes)

Ewwwwww!

Didn't know that about Hawaii but that just gives me another reason to never want to go there! I don't know about green sand, but the black sandy beaches are caused by the neighbouring volcano which consists of tiny fragments of lava. One example is the gorgeous island of St Lucia.

This shot is in Golf Del Sur as we walked along the beach,

Lovely images so far. Lurker is your pic Asia it looks a bit like it?

When my wife and I were on our honeymoon there in St Lucia this last December I don't recall any black sand, I wonder if they ship in sand there too. That island is very pretty and has some high mountain peaks, but I don't recall ever seeing black sand anywhere (at least where we went).

I've got pics of the black sand beaches. I'll try to grab a few tonight and get them up.

When we went in '98 the 4th of July was right smack dab in the middle of our time there, so the place was ridiculously crowded and that was kind of a turn off for me. A few years back I was in a little town called Cardston in Alberta CA and walking around downtown I saw a travel agency advertising travel packages to Cuba. I thought that was really cool because you don't see that anywhere in the US. Americans really are sheltered when it comes to world view.

Never thought i'd see the day where i saw black sand beaches. There are absolutely loads of them in New Zealand's south island due to the volcano's they have in that area.

Interesting to see though.

I hope you like this picture.
GT von