Three quarters of the planet are covered by water and only one quarter is land. It is impossible to believe that all the edges where the salty waters of the sea meet with the firmness of the earth are completely equal. Each of these beaches is unique in its kind, the sea is different in all of them because the light is reflected in different ways, but there are also sands of different shades. Black, pink, white and many more different colors cover the meeting between water and land. There are even glowing bioluminescence that lights up at dusk thanks to the plankton that inhabits them. But definitely if you are a lover and a tireless seeker of beaches with this peculiar beauty, perhaps you should add the beach with sand in the shape of popcorn to your list.
A popcorn covered paradise
Call Popcorn Bay, Popcorn Beach or simply the popcorn beach, bears this name not because of a simple human whim but because its sand seems to be covered with popcorn just out of the oven. Whitish with peculiar shapes, each grain of its sand enchants anyone who visits it due to its great resemblance to a field covered with millions of popcorn. And although it is very tempting to take a bite, do not be seduced by the appearance, because in reality they are a mixture of seaweed and the sand of the beach.
Las Palomitas beach is located in a unique Caribbean paradise of its kind due to its geological characteristics, the Canary Islands. The archipelago itself is already an oasis in the desert because in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, its islands are full of natural wealth. But among its islands lies Fuerteventurawhich perhaps has the most paradisiacal coast of the entire Canary Islands.
In Fuerteventura the beaches abound, their golden sand reflects the flashes of the sun and they are the most sought after destinations by tourists. But the island is a treasure full of natural wealth and has much more to offer. just in the strip of coastline that extends between El Cotillo and Corralejo is the beach of the popcorn whose official name is The iron.
Why is the sand shaped like popcorn?
Behind its popcorn sands lie the rhodolitesWhat are they red algae that are not attached to the sea and that they are capable of synthesizing carbonate to form their skeleton. While they are alive, the algae have a pink or purple color, but once their life cycle is complete, they lose their coloration, turning whitish. The swaying of the sea then does its thing and shapes the rest of the body of the rhodolites to later throw them out of the water.
This is how the peculiar sands of the beach in Fuerteventura are formed, a paradise that tells us about the history of the sea and its inhabitants. Rhodolites are beings that grow very slowly, only 1 millimeter per year, therefore, they are like little climate memories for Earth scholars. This is because they develop growth bands on their skeleton that are related to periods of warming or even cloudiness. That without counting that they function as a living ecosystem, since their funds constitute refuges for other marine species.
Without a doubt, Mother Earth surprises us in a thousand ways and in the process teaches us the great wealth and value of her living beings, which we must respect and safeguard.
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