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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Tanks of Flamenco Beach

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This beautiful beach made of sand and worn down coral is covered in the wreckage of tanks once used by the U.S. military for target practice. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-tanks-of-flamenco-beach-culebra-puerto-rico

Transcript

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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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