Top 10 Amazing & Unusual Coloured Beaches
Have you ever been to a beach and thought it had a nice golden yellow colour to it? Well, you might want to think about spreading your travel wings a little more and visiting, and walking on these ten much more unusual coloured beaches…
Top 10 Amazing & Unusual Coloured Beaches
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Yellow Coloured Beach
10 – Yellow
It might look like something from photoshop, but this is Papohaki, Hawaii and it has the yellowest sands you will ever see in your life. Now that is what I call picture perfect.
Grey Coloured Beach
9 – Grey
While the colour grey is not one of my first “must see” beach colours it is nether the less very unusual. Located on the Caribbean island Montserrat its a mix of pure white and black volcanic rock.
Orange Coloured Beach
8 –Orange
While it could be said that a lot of beaches have an orange sort of colour this one located in Porto Ferro, Sardinia is definitely right up there on the orange colour chart.
Brown Coloured Beach
7 – Brown
Located in Pacifica, California it might not have that beautiful colour people were hoping for, but it is said to be called the Chocolate beach by a lot of people. Yummy!
Purple Coloured Beach
6 – Purple
Located in California, USA it gets its purple colour from manganese garnet deposits which are constantly falling down from the eroding hillsides.
White Coloured Beach
5 – White
Located in New South Wales, Australia it holds a Guinness Record for having the whitest sand in the world! In fact, in the summer it is as pure white as snow! Just avoid the yellow sand.
Red Coloured Beach
4 – Red
Located in the Rabida, Galapagos it is red because the sand is made from iron-rich lava. It also has a saltwater lagoon inhabited by flamingos and a bachelor sea lion colony.
Pink Coloured Beach
3 – Pink
Located in Harbour Island, Bahamas is this 3-mile beach full of pretty pink sand! The colour is formed by loose chunks of coral broken down in the ocean and then being washed ashore.
Green Coloured Beach
2 – Green
Located in Kourou, French Guiana this is the world’s only green sand beach and is mostly made from a mineral called olivine, which is formed by lava as it cools when it hits the cold sea.
Black Coloured Beach
1 – Black
Located in Cahuita, Costa Rica it is one of only 2 pure blue water, with black sand beaches in the world. Needless to say it is mostly made up from volcanic rock.