Talk:Whitehaven Beach

''Whitehaven Beach is a 6km stretch along the Whitsunday Island. Its sand consists of 98% pure silica

''All of the Whitsunday island's sand is made up of coral from the Great Barrier Reef

Something is really wrong here. Corals are made of calcium carbonate, not silica. One of these statements has to be wrong. Siim (talk) 20:08, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Facts please. Not undergraduate turtle ecology.
The sand at WHB is silica. Coral sand is an off-white color and is extremely coarse, sharp, and uncomfortable to walk on. It is found around islands and atolls much further offshore. Hard corals are required to make coral sand, which are only found further offshore since the Whitsunday Ils are well within range of river plumes. The coral sand on an atoll will always have been made at that atoll. Turtles will lay their eggs in either type. They will not lay in black silica sand as it is often hot enough to fry an egg.~

Why no mention of the March flies at WHB. They're the vampires of the Whitsundays.203.220.105.56 (talk) 23:21, 19 July 2016 (UTC)