Beach Type

Shell Beaches

Beaches covered in billions of tiny shells instead of sand — rare and beautiful

What are shell beaches?

Shell beaches are rare natural phenomena where billions of tiny shells wash ashore and accumulate over millennia. The most famous examples include Shell Beach in Western Australia and Sanibel Island in Florida.

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Puka Beach on Boracay's northern tip, a wide beach of pale golden sand lined with leaning coconut palms below a forested headland, meeting clear turquoise water

Philippines

Puka Beach, Boracay: The Quiet, Shell-Strewn Escape From White Beach

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Puka Beach is Boracay's raw, quiet north-coast beach: coarser white sand, the shells it's named for, and some of the island's clearest water, with almost none of White Beach's crowds. What it's really like, how to get there, and whether to swim.

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