White sand

One more SHORT post to write about the beach at the hotel. It is AMAZING, the turquoise, cerulean, aquamarine water with the surf breaking at a reef further out. (BTW, the south of Lombok is meant to have one of the best surfing in the world - wish I could surf better!). 

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AND the sand ! .. I also caught crabs and lots of dead, bleached coral. 

The sand is white because it's made up of of calcium carbonate, which comes from the shells and skeletons of reef-living marine organisms (like corals and molluscs). The sand is like small beads, it's not like the sand with quartz in it like around Sydney which comes from weathered rocks.