There is, however, purple sand. Yes, really. You'll find it at Pfeiffer Beach, an underrated California beach in Big Sur. Pfeiffer Beach is about 3 hours from San Francisco and 6 hours from Los ...

If you’ve been to a pair of beaches on Massachusetts’s North Shore recently, you may have noticed something strange and beautiful: Sparkling patches of purple sand. The purple sand was seen at ...

Additionally, beaches may even plant signs in the sand that state that a shark was spotted. That said, when you see the purple flags in the air that does not mean that the water is closed for ...

Horseshoe Bay is one of the pink sand beaches you’ll find in Bermuda ... from the nearby hills that washed down to create the purple colors and is most visible after storms.

The intensity of the pink sand is affected by factors like the tide. Technically, Pfeiffer Beach along California’s Central Coast is more purple than pink. Thank the manganese garnet from nearby ...

The Mauve Stingers, which washed up at Porth Hellick on St Mary's on the Isles Of Scilly, are only small - but capable of a ...

No rose-colored glasses are needed at these stunning stretches of sand. You may have heard of white and black sand beaches, but what about shores with pink sands? Though rare, several countries ...

Stunning footage shows how hundreds of thousands of rare purple jellyfish, known as ‘Mauve Stingers’, have washed up on on a ...

When it comes to colors like green and red, you can probably take a guess at what those colors may indicate about ocean safety at the beach. But have you ever noticed a purple flag on the beach?

Hundreds of thousands of rare purple jellyfish have washed up on a British beach. The 'Mauve Stingers' are only small ... six ...

The beach holiday is the platonic ideal of vacations: what nearly every traveler, whether active or armchair, dreams of. Soft sand, shady palms, a cold drink, a warm surf—what more could you want?

The sand wars are being waged up and down the coast on levels both micro and macro, as beachgoers, neighbors and cities quarrel over their share of a seemingly infinite resource. As beaches shrink ...