Love short-circuits common-sense, and if you intend to marry the best money you might ever spend (aside from entering into a premarital agreement) is to buy a few hours of an expert family lawyer's time to learn the landscape of the community property rules and pitfalls.
When the manganese garnet in the hills surrounding Pfeiffer Beach in Californiaâs Big Sur gets washed down to the ocean it turn the sand a vivid purple color. The further north you go, the more purplish the sand becomes. Purple sand, Monterey Bay at the mouth of the Big Sur River, California.
Black Sand Beaches. Black sand at Kalapana. This new black sand beach is forming after the old one was swept away by a lava flow in 1986. The sand on all black sand beaches on Hawaii is made out of tiny fragments of lava. In contrast to the green and white sand, most of the black sand is created almost instantaneously. When hot lava enters the water it cools down so suddenly that it solidifies, and shatters into large amounts of black sand.