Depends entirely on where you’re at. Our coastal beaches are pure white and sound like popcorn (fish eating) when you’re underwater near coral.
The beaches along the rivers can be brown sand, washed down as you say, but some are pebbles instead. Never understood how two rivers so close together ended up with such different beaches.
Ya know that sound that you can hear under the water at white sand beaches? Sound like sand being ground through a bearing? Or a neck joint pressurizing? Yeah, that’s the parrot fish… happily eating away.
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Me: Is that true?
Search a little
Me: Oh my god…
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/fish/tough-teeth-and-parrotfish-poop
Most of the sand comes from waves sloshing onto rocks though, right? right?
most of the sand is eroded inland and deposited by rivers
Thank fuck for that!
Depends entirely on where you’re at. Our coastal beaches are pure white and sound like popcorn (fish eating) when you’re underwater near coral.
The beaches along the rivers can be brown sand, washed down as you say, but some are pebbles instead. Never understood how two rivers so close together ended up with such different beaches.
I had never thought about the reproductive cycles of grand pianos, fascinating
Whales eat the bones into sand
https://youtu.be/UO1Kcxahjdo
Ya know that sound that you can hear under the water at white sand beaches? Sound like sand being ground through a bearing? Or a neck joint pressurizing? Yeah, that’s the parrot fish… happily eating away.