Bermuda sand is white and brown?

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I have an uncle from Bermuda and when I was a kid he came back from a trip to Bermuda and had a glass full of sand that I think was white and brown and felt hard. Is this right or my memory is not correct?

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I think your memory is incorrect. Bermuda's white sand takes on a characteristic pink hue. Please read below for more info:

Bermuda has some magnificent large and small beaches. Some great ones are public, meaning that anyone can enjoy them. But some are private, not for general public, only to their guests - re-assuring to those who stay at properties with private beaches.

Beach sand is not volcanic but from finely pulverized remains of calcium carbonate shells and skeletons of invertebrates such as corals, clams, forams and other shells. Beaches begin with tiny single-celled animals, Foraminifera, in particular, homotrema rubrum - or forams - dark red skeletal animals that grow profusely on the underside of Bermuda's coral reefs. When the red forms die, the skeletons plummet to the ocean floor.

Wave action erodes the forams. They become mixed with other debris on the seabed such as the white shells of clams, snails and sea urchins. It is at that time that Bermuda's white sand takes on its characteristic pink hue. While coral reefs are common elsewhere, Bermuda is one of the northernmost areas in the Western Hemisphere.