There is a very strange beach in Japan. Instead of grains of sand, it has tiny stars. So much so that the locals have nicknamed it "Hoshizuna no Hama", that is, "Star-shaped sand".
We are on the island of Iriomote, where the beach of Hoshizuna appears as a long, clear expanse that invites you to sunbathe. But it is not the sea that attracts tourists, but its strange formation. According to legend, the appearance of the sand was determined by the meeting of the North Star and the Southern Cross above its skies. In reality, the small stars are nothing else than the exoskeletons of Foraminifera Baculogypsina sphaerulata, microorganisms of the family of protists.
