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Capture your footprints in the sand - Souvenir tip
If you're a beach bum like me, your vacations are to tropical places. Pictures of sunsets at the beach are pretty, but after a while, one beach looks like the rest. A better souvenir is to take a handful of sand. Once you get home, empty a spice bottle and fill it with the sand. Label it with the beach name and location. Consider making a note of a special memory on the label. After several trips to different beaches, you'll have a nice spice rack full of sand. You'll be surprised to see how each beach differs in their textures and variety of sand; it's much better than a photo.
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Patricia Mar 20th 2010 11:55PM
This is a nice idea. However, it should be noted that in some places taking sand is prohibited. Also, in Hawaii legend has it that if you take black sand or lava rock, the goddess Pele will punish you with bad luck. I know someone who had a string of bad luck after bringing home black sand from Hawaii. He mailed it back. In fact, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and numerous hotels receive packages of sand and other items all the time from people wishing to reverse their bad fortune by returning the "sacred" sand.