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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.
In Hawaii, black sand forms in different ways. One of these is when a lava flow meets the ocean and the lava rock is pulverized into small bits eventually forming a black sand. The young geological age of the Big Island makes it the only place in the Hawaiian Islands where you'll see this kind of beach. Punalu'u Black Sand Beach. The easiest black sand beach to get to on the Big Island is Punalu'u Beach. Punalu'u is on the east side of the southern tip of the Big Island. It is easily accessible from Highway 11 between mile markers 55 and 56.