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Think Pink! Pink Sands Beach, Harbor Island, The Bahamas

Posted September 3, 2009 , trackback

As the mother of a three year old girlie girl I am forever on the lookout for pink sparkles and unicorns, bonus points if the unicorn just so happens to be both pink and sparkley. Redwood groves become fairy forests, broken shells at the beach the broken tipped fingernails of mermaids from the deep. It is a magical world through the eyes of a three year old girl who very much believes in the healing power of glitter, the decorative panache of a band-aid. What I wouldn’t give to be able to show her the wonder of Pink Sands Beach on Harbor Island in The Bahamas.

Think pink.

Think pink.

Ever since she was a baby my daughter has had an aversion to sand. When we try to put her down at the beach she curls her legs up like a snail exposed to salt. I don’t know if she thinks it’s dirty, if maybe she doesn’t like the consistency, the color. We live in Northern California where the sand is coarse, grey, tan sometimes and sprinkled with oyster shells broken and sharp. Somehow I have a feeling, though, that if we brought her to The Bahamas her aversion to sand would disappear. Apparently here the sand is 3 1/2 miles of hard-packed perfect pink perfection. A confection of a beach leading to crystal clear turquoise waters calm and warm enough for a baby. Or a stubborn three year old who wants to be a mermaid but doesn’t like getting water in her eyes.

Aptly Named.

Aptly Named.

The color of the sand comes from ground red coral which then mixes with the white sand so as to appear pink. Of course this is too logical an explanation for something so magical, and I prefer to think the sand is pink because it can hear everyone call it beautiful. At least this is what I would tell my daughter, the beach so pink because it blushes.

All photos courtesy of The Pink Beach Club’s Photostream.

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