Thursday, November 11, 2010

Sandboarding



This is Port Stephens. This was ridiculously fun.

Aside from the obvious thrill factor of riding down sand dunes on boards, there are two interesting facts about these dunes:

1. It's the largest moving land mass in the world. The winds blow sand inland, up to 10 meters per year. At one point this was all a forest but the sand has slowly blown inland and eaten away at the vegetation.

2. This sand is exported to Waikiki Beach! So the famous white sand beaches in Waikiki are not from Hawaii at all, but from Newcastle!