Offbeat Traveler: Red Beach in Panjin, China
Papakolea Beach on Hawaii's Big Island get its green color from olivine minerals. Coral tints Pink Sands Beach in the Bahamas. At Red Beach in Panjin, a city about 300 miles northeast of Beijing, it's seaweed. The wetland is home to a unique variety of alkali-tolerant seaweed that changes from green to red in the fall.
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Red Beach
In the spring, the seaweed starts off green and reddens as fall approaches. Its vermillion color peaks sometime in September.
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