The Changing Carolina Coast: Sand Is Everywhere, Except When It Isn’t
According to a database created by Western Carolina University’s Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, more than $500 million has been spent rebuilding North Carolina’s beaches. Since 1983, we’ve spent about $100 million alone replacing Highway 12, built on the sands of the Outer Banks.
Love Building Sandcastles? This Guy Does It For A Living
MTV News spoke to the lead sand sculptor and master instructor at Beach Sand Sculptures company, at Hangout Music Festival, where him and his team were hard at work constructing a fancy sand sculpture — and getting paid to do it. Yep, that’s right, paid to hang out on a beach all day and play in the sand.
Headlands Dunes Preserve is a Wild Beach with Sand, Forest, Marshes; OH
Once there were 170 miles of unspoiled Lake Erie beaches with dunes and beach-loving vegetation on Ohio’s North Coast. Headlands Dunes is one of the last surviving lakefront beach plant communities with its hummocks and its sand-loving vegetation.
Top 10 Island Beaches for Perfect Sand
According to Condé Nast Traveler readers, you’ll find the world’s best sand at the following 10 beaches.
Thick Dust Plumes Obscure Africa’s Coast
Hundreds of millions of tons of sand and dust particles are lifted from North African deserts each year and carried across the Atlantic Ocean to South America. The trans-continental journey of dust is important because of what is often in the dust…
Star Sand Beach In Iriomote Island, Japan
Iriomote Island is a small island in Okinawa, Japan where beach-goers are normally seen crouched over, examining the sand rather than swimming in the waters. This is because most beaches on Iriomote Island–as well as some neighboring islands in southern Japan–contain “hoshizuna” or star-shaped sand.
Wind Carves Amazing Formations in Lake Michigan Sand
Heavy winds had carved their way through the frozen beach sand, leaving a miniature version of Utah’s famous sandstone formations, known as hoodoos.
Hawaii’s Beaches Feature Rainbow of Colors
You might be surprised by the color of Hawaii’s famous beaches sand, it’s not always golden. You’ll find black sand, red sand and even green sand across the island chain.
The Beach: a River of Sand
You get up in the morning and go out on the beach. It is the same beach you walked on yesterday. Tomorrow you will go to the same beach and it will be there as always. The tide may have brought in some new shells or possibly some trash, but the beach is the beach. It hasn’t gone anywhere. That is an illusion.