beaches of the Florida Panhandle constitute the greatest strand of white sand on the planet.

"Stephen Leatherman, the director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at Miami’s Florida International University who is better known for his widely discussed “Dr. Beach” annual beach rankings, says the 160 kilometres of beaches of the Florida Panhandle constitute the greatest strand of white sand on the planet.

“It’s pure quartz crystal,” said Leatherman, who believes he is the only person to have visited every beach in the United States. “There’s not any place in the world where you can find a stretch like that.”

He added: “We have to stop that oil at the shoreline before it gets to the dry sand. Because if it sinks down into the dry sand, it’s going to be a disaster for years. An environmental and an economic disaster.

From part of the story: Oil hits Pensacola beaches.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/819460--florida-beach-city-resigned-to-oil-disaster?bn=1

Maybe after a while it'll be the gray beaches of Florida after enough oil is cleaned off

This is an advertisement but I include it to show you just how white the beach is

The beaches in that area are/were like nowhere else.

I've lived here most of my life. I'm sick.

...and not goin away any time soon.

:cry:

ola.......I know those places well.

Expropriate without compensation.

several years ago she visited our friends who live just a few miles away. she went on and on about the beach along the coast......

i wonder if we will ever learn....