Some of the prettiest tourist attractions in Costa Rica are located along the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Cartographers have mapped out and designated more than 100 beaches in Costa Rica, and some of them are so secluded that they do not appear in commercially available maps. Depending on personal preference, some beaches may appear to be prettier than others, and this opinion will likely hinge upon favorite colors. When it comes to giving a beach character, the color of its sand plays an important role. Thankfully, there is a lot more in Costa Rica than the *** beige sand and… The post 50 Shades of Beach Sand in Costa Rica appeared first on Costa Rica Star News. Continue reading → The post 50 Shades of Beach Sand in Costa Rica appeared first on Costa Rica Bookings.
Some of the prettiest tourist attractions in Costa Rica are located along the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Cartographers have mapped out and designated more than 100 beaches in Costa Rica, and some of them are so secluded that they do not appear in commercially available maps. Depending on personal preference, some beaches may appear to be prettier than others, and this opinion will likely hinge upon favorite colors.
When it comes to giving a beach character, the color of its sand plays an important role. Thankfully, there is a lot more in Costa Rica than the *** beige sand and blue water color combinations. In 2012, author Nadine Hays Pisani of the acclaimed Happier than a Billionaire series of book about living in Costa Rica wrote about her experiences with beach sand colors in Costa Rica:
What color sand do you like? I asked the puzzled tourist. Do you prefer pink or black, full of shells or soft under your feet. Are you going swimming or kayaking, surfing or paddle boarding? All he did was ask which beach I liked best, and in return the poor *** got drilled with twenty questions. It is a simple inquiry that is getting more difficult to answer the longer I live here.
Playa Penca, located in Potrero, has soft pink sand that feels like a mini foot massage as you walk across the beach.
For the most part, the color of beach sand is a reflection of its mineral composition. Notwithstanding, the soft pink sand in Playa Penca and the pleasant feeling it transmits to the soles of those ***** enough to walk across it is not mineral, but organic. According to Gary Griggs, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Santa Cruz, further explains the pink sand phenomenon in a blog post recently published by Coastal Care:
While an Oceanography graduate student at Oregon State University, I had the opportunity to spend a summer studying the coral reefs of Bermuda, about 600 miles off the Atlantic coast. Bermuda advertises its pink coral sands as an attraction to draw tourists. And they are pink, but its not coral that gives them this color. Its actually a less familiar organism, a single cell animal known as a foraminifera, which makes a small pinkish shell. Although not particularly abundant, the small amount of pink in the otherwise white sand gives a distinct color to the beaches of Bermuda.
As it happens, the foraminiferal density is explained by the Costa Rica Thermal Convection Dome and its many phytoplankton treasures. But pink is not the only color of beach sand in Guanacaste. As previously reported by The Costa Rica Star:
The different-colored sands of Guanacastes beaches in the northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica are the stuff of legend. Playa Hermosa, for example, has two kilometers of volcanic dark sand that glitters spectacularly when the sun hits at a certain angle. If you tilt your **** and squint your eyes the right way, you will swear that gold specks are strewn about the beach. The sands of the beaches to the north and south are different in color but similar in glitter, and none of this indicates the presence of gold.
Down the Central Pacific coast and closer to jaco Beach, beach sand colors alternate between lighter tones of beige and grey. Brown and white sugar-colored sands can be found at some coastal spots in the Caribbean. In the end, there are probably more than 50 shades of beach sand to discover in Costa Rica.
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