Wednesday, August 29, 2007

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PINK BEACHHave you heard the pink beach at Boracay? Well try this most exiting and newest resort surely will take your breath away. Greater Santa Cruz Island's "Pink Sand Beach" commonly known as the pink Beach. The Great and Little Santa Cruz Islands' respective Pink and White Sand Beaches, this city's best beaches, and one of the country's best. In its ideal natural state, there is no comparison to the uniquely beautiful "pinkish" sand. The pink coloration effect of pulverized rare red Organ-pipe Coral (tubipora musica) from eons of surf erosion mixed in with the white sand. The "Pink Sand Beach" of Great Santa Cruz Island is rare, and is one of the very few found in the entire world. There is over three miles of this rare pink sand beach encircling the beautiful island. The Great Santa Cruz Island has a big mangrove-laden lagoon inside where its water level rises and falls with the tide, along with a small Badjao village and their increasingly larger burial ground nearby the mouth opening of the lagoon. The island interior is lushly covered with natural island vegetation and grass, with some flowering trees, providing a welcome shade from the near equatorial sunshine. It is also home to numerous red mangrove crabs and other sea creatures that seek shelter inside its protective lagoon.

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