The Tanks of Flamenco Beach
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, when was the first time you ever went to Flamenco Beach? |
| 0:04.0 | I must have been like six or seven years old. |
| 0:08.0 | I cannot emphasize the level of intensity that the first impression that this beach had. |
| 0:18.0 | You know, it's a struggle to capture it. |
| 0:22.0 | Part of the island is a coral reef. |
| 0:25.0 | So the sand is bone white. |
| 0:29.0 | It's a coral reef that has disintegrated. |
| 0:33.0 | And then the water is depending on the time of the day. |
| 0:39.0 | It's so transparent that you don't actually see it. |
| 0:44.0 | The effect is even more intense at night. |
| 0:47.0 | And then there's another component which makes it very magical. |
| 0:50.0 | I don't know the scientific name, but there's an animal. |
| 0:53.0 | It's that leaves it's a kind of amoeba kind of fungi thingy. |
| 0:57.0 | One of its characteristics is bioluminescence. |
| 1:01.0 | So the wave comes, splashes on the sand, and then washes out. |
| 1:07.0 | Right? There. And then the sand stays wet for a few seconds. |
| 1:13.0 | So you're walking on the beach. |
| 1:15.0 | You look behind and you see your footprints shining. |
| 1:21.0 | You go there to this beach now. |
| 1:23.0 | And it's very... |
| 1:25.0 | I described it as this paradise. |
| 1:27.0 | Very calm. |
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