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🗓️ 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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