Just before the highway's end, we turned into Wai'anapanapa State Park, which has a small black sand beach, and hiked to a cave.

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The black sand beach here is slim and runs directly next to the main road so it is not a great place to bring young kids - the beach can disappear entirely at certain points during high tide.

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Papara's black-sand beach picks up the south swell, and waves range from small and gentle to overhead, big and fast (check local conditions).

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We can see the ad, photos of models, a video trailer at a black-sand beach in Hawaii, and what would be called, on a DVD, a bonus feature on the making of the video.

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Thick black waves roll up onto the beach in Beirut, splashing against sand that's been stained by a huge oil spill.

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Soon they walked, drunk, surrounded by a pack of hungry strays, toward a glaring white strip of beach and the black sea and blue froth crashing on the sand.

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On the beach of an island in the Pacific, an island with black sand, hardened black lava, and nothing green growing but cactus, a British mariner with a knife in his hand was crouching before a giant tortoise.

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