SONOMA COUNTY, CA — This photo captured at Doran Beach brings to mind a well-known poem, "Footprints in the Sand." In this image, however, there are no footprints, only shadows. Patch reader ...

The golden shores that attract millions of visitors every year to the southeast corner of Queensland have been left battered and bruised at the hands of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred.

Ex-Cyclone Alfred has caused beach erosion so extreme, it's left escarpments up to six-metres high in some dunes, including ...

As if turquoise seas weren't stunning enough, pairing them with blush-colored sands makes for a photo no Instagram ... The Bahamas' 3-mile-long Pink Sand Beach gets its color from crushed pink ...

Towering granite boulders and palms dot the perimeter of this beautiful white-sand beach, and a nearby coral reef keeps the waters calm and ideal for wading. This stretch of sheltered beach on ...

A great option for those who don't want to work up a sweat on the trails but want to experience Big Sur's beauty from outside the car is Sand Dollar Beach. Located about 7 miles south of Limekiln ...

Iceland's Vik Beach is one of the most breathtaking black sand beaches you'll ever see! Photo: iStock Move over, powdery white shores — there's something irresistibly dramatic about black sand ...

But how the whisky bottles ended up in the sand is a mystery. Contegiacomo suggested they may have been sucked up by dredging machines off the coast and deposited on the beach. “There was a lot ...

The plan includes creating a protective barrier using Sand Dollar Island, the lagoon, and mangroves to absorb storm energy. Tigertail Beach and outlying Sand Dollar Island on Marco Island have ...

Two of the beach’s most popular activities aim to revive hurricane-damaged spirits. Kite festivals are popular on Treasure Island Beach, like this one from 2012, and so are sand sculpting festivals.