Thursday, October 06, 2005

SIFTING THE SAND ON HAINAN ISLAND CHINA

While luxuriating on the beaches of Da Dong Hai and Yalong on Hainan Island, I saw workers from the hotels come to the beach daily with a screen the size of a medium window frame, and a shovel. They would shovel the first thin layer of beach sand and toss it into the screen sifting the debris. Meter by meter, they sifted the whole length of the beach.

Their beaches are immaculate; uncomparable even to Hawaii.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Uncomparable?

Scott Supak said...

Ah, yes, incomparable. Thank you. Anne's a great travel agent, but her spelling's not so good sometimes!