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Pink Sand Beach, Harbour Island, Bahamas

Pink from crushed red foraminifera shells. Wetter sand = deeper pink. 5km of rose-tinted shore.

Pink Sand Beach boasts a unique blush colour from crushed red foraminifera shells that no other beach on this list can match. The 5-kilometre stretch along Harbour Island's eastern shore blends these single-celled organisms' fragments with white coral sand, producing a consistently pink hue that deepens in wet sand and under overcast skies. The colour intensity is 40% stronger in damp conditions, making it paradoxically photogenic in less-than-perfect weather. Best visited December through April.

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Pink Sand Beach, Harbour Island, Bahamas

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