Glass Beach...it has a story....
This beach is covered with very small colored shining gravel....
but the colored pieces here are not the natural colored stones you wold expect them to be....
these are "glass pieces from the waste which used to be dumped here in 1960's"... of course the place was cleaned later... these are "totally man-made but smoothed beautifully by Mother Nature"
but I when I was here....it confused me....should I be rejoiced looking how pretty the colored glass pieces looked....or feel bad how polluted this place once was...
These glasses pieces must have been part of beer bottles or window panes ....you never know...now that nature has transformed them...Beautifully....!!
Green Sand beach - Big Island Hawaii
This beach is one of only four such beaches in the world. The sand is actually a green olive color caused by eruptions from what was once a volcano. In fact, green sand beach itself is within what was once a cinder cone. Three sides of the cone are still present, with the ocean coming in from what would have been the eastern edge.
New Black sand beach - Hilo , Big island
The Big Island landscape is always changing, waves crashing into rocky shores and molten lava pouring into the ocean. There are famous black sand beaches on this island, but this New black sand beach indeed is new.
Kalapana is a fishing village which was destroyed by lava in the most recent eruption of the volcano. The village beach, which once was villagers’ favorite, was engulfed too. But the shores have recovered now. The ocean did its magic again. The waves converted the lava to black sand and vola….the new sand beach. The cooled down lava here is so porous, that it crumbled to sand when I touched. This gave hope…hope that everything recovers with time…everything heals with time….
