August 30 - National Beaches Day!

2. This Mexican beach is home to a Mayan ruin.
5. Shark attacks on this infamous New Jersey beach served as real-life inspiration for the film "Jaws" (1975).
7. This long coastal strip of Italy has a long-standing association with authors and artists, such as Ernest Hemingway, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley.
8. This Thai beach was popularized by the Leonardo DiCaprio film "The Beach" (2000), suffering massive ecological damage from over-tourism.
9. Oregon's iconic Haystack Rock is located at which famous Oregonian beach?
10. What type of beach is known for its rocky surface and limited sand?
11. What planet's gravitational pull can we thank for Earth's tides?
12. What is the name of the area where a river meets the sea and fresh and saltwater mix?
14. What is Hawaii's most famous beach?
15. This Florida beach is known for its night life.
18. What gives black sand beaches their distinctive hue?
19. This famous Brazilian beach has a song by Barry Manilow dedicated to it.
20. This beach in South Africa is known for being populated by penguins.
21. Renowned for its beaches, this country is the smallest in Africa and is made up of an archipelago of over 100 islands in the Indian Ocean.

1. This iconic Southern California beach is known for its boardwalk and pier, which includes a Ferris wheel among its attractions.
3. This Maui beach is widely touted as the best windsurfing beach in the world.
4. This Native Hawaiian Olympic medalist popularized surfing. Less well-known is the fact that his rescue of eight stranded fishermen popularized the use of surfboards among lifeguards.
6. This South African beach is home to one of the largest great white shark populations in the world.
13. This Florida beach is a shellers' mecca with the coveted junonia shell netting the discoverer a picture in the local newspaper.
16. Touted as the smallest navigable bay in the world, this Oregon Coast town is great for whale-watching.
17. What is the primary component of white sandy beaches?