The "exotic" beaches (part 1)

1. Glass Beach, Fort Bragg - California

"Glass Beach" is the name of a beach near the Fort Bragg, California, USA. Glass Beach is famous because here there are many stones with different colors look like the beautiful crystal.
"Glass Beach" have historically formed quite interesting: In the early 20th century, the people in Fort Bragg family throwing garbage onto the ledge at the beach, which supplies the hydraulic map crystals such as bottles, jars, mirrors, glass ... When the "mountain of garbage" has high quality, they set fire to reduce the number of waste disposal that di.Sau that city leaders and the Department comptroller California's water resources has closed area in 1967. there have been several waste treatment program was undertaken to overcome partially the destruction of the environment here. Over many decades, the waves washed ashore swept away the waste light. The heavier material such as stone, glass, it is left on the beach.
Due to the force of the waves hit an object strongly to the glass was shattered into pieces. Over the years, the sea and the sand washed with high friction makes the glass becomes smooth like the Crystals. It was later called it "Crystal Beach" or "Glass Beach". By 1998, the private sector is inherently previously ruled beach area has confirmed that, "Glass Beach" belongs to the public. Ban coast conservation and waste management departments California has a working process lasts 5 years to make plans, sanitation program to bring beach waters in tourism.


2. Pink sand beach, Harbor Island - Bahamas

Much of Harbour Island’s appeal has to do with its natural beauty, most particularly its beaches. It full length is edged on one side by Pink Sand Beach, a broad, stunning beach owing its name to the finest crushed coral that makes up its sand, always cool and walk-able even on the hottest day. Well-known as one of the world’s best beaches, Pink Sand Beach is mostly empty of people save for the guests of the Island’s small resorts and the photo shoots of magazines like Sports Illustrated SwimSuit Edition that have occured there.

3. Jökulsárlón, Iceland

One of the spots we were most looking forward to in Iceland was Jökulsárlón. It’s a glacier lagoon in South East Iceland filled with Icebergs. The lagoon was formed by global warming a mere 60 years ago as the Breiðamerkurjökull began to retreat. At one time, the glacier reached the sea, but as the ice began to melt more rapidly, chunks of ice broke off (known as calving) and as they fell, a lagoon was formed. Ice is powerful and it created deep gorges in the earth as it retreated. The lake is 200 metres deep!

4. Shells Beach, Shark Bay

Shell Beach is located 45 kilometres south-east of Denham in the Shark Bay World Heritage Area. This beautiful snow-white beach is made up of millions of tiny shells up to 10 metres deep and stretching for over 120 kilometres.

The shells were once used to build the office walls of buildings in the area, some of which can still be seen today. On a still day, the ocean at Shell Beach transforms into a palette of the most intense greens blues.

5. Vik Beach, Iceland

when summoning the image of the perfect beach, dark sand doesn’t usually come to mind. However, some of the world’s most dramatic beaches are dark, and in some cases volcanic black. Vik beach, in southern Iceland is no exception. The town is 110 miles (177 km) away from Reykjavik and  is home to less than 300 inhabitants plus a large puffin population!

Vik lies directly under the Mýdalsjökull glacier which lies atop the Katla Volcano. The color of the sand was likely created by hot lava flowing into the frigid ocean, causing it to fragment into little pieces.