He looked up and saw the stars that had, without his noticing, burst forth like brilliant white flowers across a black-sand desert. ❋ Matt Dennison (2010)
You get off the airplane, and they put the lei around your neck and you want to experience everything—the luau, the black-sand beaches, and everything you ever heard about Hawaii. ❋ Luther Wright (2010)
Black pebbles coat the shower floors to simulate the texture of the black-sand beach nearby. ❋ Unknown (2009)
You see them piling up some of the sand on those black-sand beaches. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Some were nestled right on the shoreline with their own private black-sand beaches; others were hidden along tropical lagoons, 125 in all within 82-acres of lava that formed an ancient Hawaiian fishing village. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sun-worshiping crowds throng this Greek island in July and August, so an off-season visit is the best time to enjoy the island's serene beauty and black-sand beaches. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A seven-day tour of the Big Island in Hawaii covers three to six miles a day, with stops at black-sand beaches, archaeological sites, Volcanoes National Park, botanical gardens and rain forests. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The cabdriver took us to Koloumbos, a volcanic black-sand beach with a smattering of restaurants and shops across the road. ❋ Karen Quinn (2008)
Located at the southern end of the Cyclades island range, Santorini has breathtaking Minoan-period ruins and a stunning black-sand beach at Perivolos. ❋ Unknown (2006)
South and east the island was a mass of singular rock formations and black-sand beaches where the shoreline met the waters of the Blue Divide before rising to disappear into jungle and mist. ❋ Brooks, Terry (1992)
The veterans, some in wheelchairs, flew to the island on a chartered airliner and fanned out across its famous black-sand beaches, where the U.S. invasion began on Feb. 19, 1945, and lasted 36 days. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was a complete surprise to me that the beach was black-sand, rocky and had sharp pieces of reef all over it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Thick rain-forests on mountain ranges that rise to almost 4,000 feet, deep ravines, brightly coloured flowering shrubs and orchids, old plantation homes that have been transformed into inns and stunning black-sand beaches. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Little remains of their presence, bar a few ancient walls along a narrow, black-sand beach, but the tranquility belies a spot just 40 minutes from the city. ❋ Unknown (2010)
While you may not be wandering the Louvre or sipping espresso in front of the Pantheon, here the treasures are nature-made: black-sand beaches, coral reefs, lush rain forest and simmering volcanoes. ❋ Karan Smith (2010)
Tazacorte one day, where we dined beneath a blazing sun on sea bass washed down with tangy local Albillo, while others baked and swam on the black-sand beach a few yards away. ❋ Unknown (2010)
[Hey man], you got any of [that good] black sand [left]? ❋ 8Big Wally>>>> (2016)
