Sand Collecting?

[Dave Decker]

Similar to rockhounding, but smaller! I've been collecting sand from around the world, not just on overlanding trips, but also during my time in the Navy and on family vacations and work related travel as well. Let's see some of your favorite sand photos! Here are a few of mine:

Ash Meadow, CA, green zeolite.
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Oak Springs, NV, quartz sand and trilobites!
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Mills Orchard, NM, quartz sand with iron oxide coating.
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Kingman Wash, AZ, lithic sand.
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[Steve]

Deb usually brings back some sand from trips we take. Black sand from Hawaii, Florida, Bermuda, and probably others.

 

[Dave Decker]

Excellent, glad there's at least one other sand collector here! I've got a website for my sand collection: www.maryhemmerlyhecker.org and then there's also the International Sand Collector's Society: https://sandcollectors.org/

My favorite sands are the heavy mineral sands, garnet, olivine, magnetite, etc. I prefer the colors over just plain white quartz sand.

 

[❤️Lovey❤️]

View attachment 59075 White Sands one if my favorite places...the tranquility & watching the Sunset is absolutely perfect!! A slice of Heaven...

 

[Dave Decker]

Beautiful shot!

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[❤️Lovey❤️]

Ty hey we missed you at the expedition!! Me Aimee & Phillip & Ron the final die hards in the rain!!

 

[MMc]

I have 300 + sand samples displayed in shot glasses. this is a photo of just a few. My sand is mostly beach sand form places that I surf.

 

[Boostpowered]

In a sense yes. Our trucks rear bumper catches and collects just about everything we go through then it gets deposited into my driveway when i wash it all out. But no i havent collected sand in bottles since i was a little kid.

 

[John.Bezek]

Ya! I'd rather have little a bit of nature from my trips than a cheesy overpriced souvenir. I get these spice jars from Cost Plus World Market link here and use a pen engraver to label where they are from.View attachment 127082

 

[64Trvlr]

I have a small collection, some from Omaha Beach where my Uncle cleared obstacles, some from Iwo Jima same Uncle still clearing obstacles and mine, some from the Mekong Delta and some much further upstream just south of Mengsong.