You are looking at the kind of beach with which Australia is particularly well-endowed.
Many Australians love to frequent such beaches..and to brag about them to Europeans.
Key features, all present here: frequently-intense sunshine, clear, unpolluted, “blue” water, plus plenty of clean and bright sand.
Such beaches are much more abundant in Australia than in Europe.
That is precisely why the pictured, Calabrian beach is so highly prized by European tourists.
It sits on the Tyrrhenian Sea, on the western/upper side of the Italian Peninsula’s “boot”.
This beach is the primary reason for Tropea’s status as a very popular “resort” town.
(Allegedly founded by Hercules, this picturesque village has other attractions too – including its famously-sweet onions, its allegedly-aphrodisiac red peppers, Tropea’s good restaurants and its very pleasant streets)
This post’s photo shows a number of sand’s key features:
How it can be a delightful surface to walk along..or laze upon.
How different the very same sand can appear, depending on how wet or dry it is.
How very quickly “wet” sand becomes “dry” sand, and vice versa.
How the “blue” – and the clarity – of the shallow waters on an ocean’s edge are enormously boosted when those waters have a shining sun, above, and light sand, below.
(photo taken in Tropea at 1.24 pm on 18 September 2023)
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