Green Sand Beach

You've seen white sand beaches and golden sand beaches and maybe even a black sand beach but did you know that there are green sand beaches?

It sounded intriguing so George and I made the trek to see it.  The trail is only about 2 1/2 miles one way and it's mostly flat.  You can't get lost because you are right on the edge of the ocean and all roads seem to lead to the green sand beach.

Locals are willing to take you to the beach in one of their SUVs for a small price (I think it is about $20 per person) but we are hikers so we walked it.  

If your rental car is an SUV, you can drive yourself.  Be be warned that some of the roads are like this!

 The path is mostly flat with only an occasional climb. On the way back we stayed on the road closest to the ocean and that seemed to be the easiest way.

It was hot though.

And we made it to the green sand beach!  As you can see, it is not grass or leaf green but more of an olive color.

We didn't take the steep path down, because we were flying out that evening and didn't want to miss our flight.  Next time, I'd like to actually swim there.

In case you were wondering, the sand is green because of a large deposit of the semi precious stone, olivine which is broken up by the waves and mixed with the black sand from the lava.  Sometimes people do find large chunks of olivine.  Wouldn't that be exciting?