Top 10 Strangest Beaches In The World

Are you, like many, fond of a day to the beach? The soft sand between your toes, the noise of the waves, the warmth of the sun and the cool breeze of the wind on your skin ... Even the craze of the seagulls is a pleasure to listen to while on the beach. But not every beach is the same. You have sand, stone, rock and even snowy beaches. There are whole wide beaches, super-soft beaches, mile-long beaches and tiny bays that are barely accessible. The variation is huge. This is apparent from this top 10. Here are ten different beaches, the ten strangest beaches in the world.

10. Beach with black sand and icebergs (Iceland)

Iceland is made of volcanic rocks. It has many picturesque beaches. They reflect the color of the rock where they are worn out. Most of Iceland's beaches consist of black sand, originating from the volcanic rocks. One of these is very special: Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon. On the black sands of this beach are chunks of diamond clear glacier ice cream. These are from the beginning of the 20th century. Around the 1930's, the glacier Breioamerkurjokull retreated, glacier ice-pieces remained behind the beach.

9. Hot Water Beach (New Zealand)

If you go to New Zealand's Hot Water Beach, you have to bring a bucket and a shovel. Not to build a sand castle (for your children), but to dig a hot water spa for yourself. That the water at this beach is so hot is because there is an underground river near the beach, warmed by the earth's warmth. As soon as the tide goes, the beach is crowded by people with a shovel and bucket, which can be hired at a nearby cafe. The cold seawater retreats and instead replaces hot water with the beach and fills the dug baths. Until the tide returns, it is a beautiful place to stay in the natural, home-made spas.

8. The widest beach (India)

When the tide turns out, beaches change into beautiful areas for walking, playing or for sports. This shift is the most extreme in Chandipur, India. Here the sea disappears twice a day, during the laughter. This happens at a distance of no less than 5 kilometers. This is because there is a highly flat seabed that rises to the coast. People not only come to this particular place to move. They drive here by car to the sea in the distance, searching for red crabs and other marine animals. If you visit this unique place, make sure you know exactly when the tide returns. Otherwise, you may suddenly find yourself at sea 5 kilometers away from the coast.

7. Beaches with parrot fish poop

If you slide the soft white sand along your fingers and toes, you would not think about it. But did you know that all this beautiful sand is largely the product of fish poke? Parrotfish live in reefs and feed themselves by choking on the coral. There are also algae that are full of calcium carbonate. The parrot fish teeth crush the heavy calcium carbonate. As soon as they pass the digestive tract, it is ground to sand. A single parrot fish produces as much as 360 kilograms of sand per year. If you multiply this with millions of fish and millions of years, you end up getting many top-rated white beaches ... full of poop.

6. Playa de Gulpiyuri - Domestic beach (Spain)

If you have to mention something that all the beaches have in common, you'll soon think about the seaside location. But this is not true. There is a beach, Gulpiyuri Beach in Spain, located between green fields, inland. It is located 100 meters from the sea because high rocks and cliffs enclose it. But if the tide returns to the sea, the beach is also covered with water. How is this possible? Several caves and canals have formed (already in the Ice Age) in the rocks that connect Gulpiyuri to the sea. Sometimes the beach is named the smallest beach in the world. You can visit it: during the high season you can swim there, and during lazy days you can bathe in knee-high water.

5. Shell Beach (Australia)

As the name suggests, Shell Beach consists of shells. Over a distance of 70 miles, Shell Beach is covered with 10 meters of shells. These billions of rounds have spread throughout the ages over the centuries. The tide has ensured that the shells are mostly pulverized to fine sandy particles. In the past, the shells of this beach were used by locals to make materials. Now, this is no longer possible because Shell Beach has been appointed World Heritage for tourism. The sea of ​​this beach has extremely salt water, which makes it easy for you to drive on.

4. Algar de Benagil Hidden Beach (Portugal)

One of the largest tourist attractions of the Algarve in Portugal is Algar de Benagil, also called Hidden Beach. If you climb the cliffs above this beach, you will hear the sound of rippling waves, but you will not see it. Under a large hole in the cliffs surrounding a fence, there is a beach. Algar de Benagil is a natural cave in a rock, originated by the tides. The hole in the cliffs ensures that daylight can shine on the secluded white sandy beach. The only entrance to the beach is via the cave from the sea. To be able to visit this special place, you must, therefore, defend the waves and find a way through the rocks. Or do you manage to jump through the hole with a parachute?

3. Glass Beach (California)

Fort Bragg Beach in California is covered with sparkling, colorful pebbles, originated by glass polished by the sea. This miracle has thus been brought about by the bad behavior of humans. For ages, local communities have dumped their unusable, broken stuff in the sea. Even complete cars were thrown into it. Organic products forgone, metal rusted or removed, but broken glass popped up and was polished to smooth bumps through the waves. Law now protects fort Bragg. Visitors must not move the polished glass stones. There are more places where beaches are covered with glass particles. Ussuri Bay in Siberia is an example of this. Near this beach are many glass factories nearby, which dump their waste for a long time at sea.

2. Dragon Egg Beach (New Zealand)

A part of Koekehe Beach in New Zealand is covered with large spherical boulders. 60 million years ago these were formed from mud, clay, and calcite. This happened underground, so they were not affected by the movement of the waves. Not long ago, they were released from the cliffs. They rolled up the beach. The boulders are full of whimsical cracks, which make the pebbles look like hatching eggs, hence the name Dragon Egg Beach.

1. Beaches with a blue glow (everywhere)

Almost everywhere they can form, the bioluminescence borders. These are beaches that will glow through the light of plankton and algae. This happens only occasionally because energy is needed to shine and this energy is only produced under certain conditions. A complete beach can be lighted under these specific conditions. Some beaches show this natural miracle at predictable times. An example of this is Mosquito Bay in Puerto Rico. During the day, this beach looks ugly brown, but in the evening there is sparkling blue light when you swim or kayak over the water. During the fall, when the moon is low, you can watch a beautiful light on the Maldives. This occurs, unlike described above, because crustaceans try to attract potential partners at the moment. They blow themselves to small light spots in the sea and on the beach.