Posts Tagged ‘Bermuda’

Where in the world can you find beaches in a girl’s favorite color, pink? 

Beaches in rosy, pink, powdery sand, you say?

It sounds like a pink dream come true!

Bermuda crops up with its most famous beach named not for its color but for its shape, Elbow Beach.  Curving around for a mile it looks irridescent with its pinky shimmer against the aquamarine ocean.  Located in the Atlantic, not the Caribbean as some think, its waters run cooler, sometimes running in the low 60′s, making swimming more an adventure than a given destination for winter travellers there.

Lesser known and farther away, tiny Elafonissi island off Crete also has pink sand.  Separated by only a lagoon no more than a yard deep, beach buffs can wade across some 200 yards from the beach to see this thumb-sized paradise for a day-trip visit. 

Even further around the globe, in the Indian Ocean in the Seychelles on La Digue at Anse Source D’Argent, there are series of tiny crescents of pink sand beaches.  More home-spun than glamorous, the atmosphere is simple elegance in a tropical setting without the tourist sprawl.

In the Bahamas, Harbour Island off North Eleuthera is perhaps the most famous of all pink sand beaches with its 3 mile long beach between 50 and 100 feet wide, brimming with its same rosy combination of broken bits of coral, shells, clams, sea urchins, rocks, calcium carbonate deposits left from tiny marine invertebrates, and most importantly minute single-cell organisms called Foraminafera.

This microscopic shelled animal is plentiful in the ocean and has a bright red or pink shell full of holes through which it extends its ‘foot’ called pseudopodia to attach and feed on the underside of reefs, on rocks, on the sea floor and in caves.  As waves and fish knock Foraminafera free from their ‘toe-hold’ so to speak, they wash up in the gritty concoction we call sand, lending their pinky shells to the unique mix.

For the ultimate girlie getaway, hele your ‘okole over to Pink Sands Resort and book one of the 25 pastel-colored cottages.  Designed by fashion high priestess of pop, Barbara Hukanicki of Biba fame, the 20 acre estate is an oasis of calm pinkness on its bordering pink sand beach.

Pop on your best pink bikini and prepare to glow in the rosy sunset, one toe in the sand and the other on your pink lounger.

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