Emerald Papakolea Beach Bashny.Net

This unusual beach on the island of Hawaii, also known as The Big Island has a few other names. However, the meaning is still boils down to one thing - it's a beach with sand green.

Generally, these beaches in the world known to only four. Two of them are on the Galapagos Islands, and one in Norway. Greenish-olive color due to the presence of sand mineral called olivine. He came here as a result of continuous leaching of particles from the ocean struck cinder cone volcano Puu Mahana, which has about 49 thousand years. Bol dense olivine structure, allows it to stay on the surface of the beach, unlike sand, washed regularly. However, when the whole olivine would be in the ocean and the beach will be the usual sand color.