Punta Maria beach is one of the remaining white beaches along the Pacific coast in Borongan, Eastern Samar that has not yet been altered by any resort development. At least for now it has remained serene, natural, and beautiful. I recommend this to any local or foreign tourists.
On June 9-10, 2012 during our field work in Eastern Samar as part of my graduate and undergraduate classes in Soil Science and Geo-ecology, we visited the beach to observe its formation and ecology.
As I already mentioned in an earlier article in this blog, the beach is white because it consists of fragments of the limestone rock. Examination of the fine sand sample using a modern digital microscope (magnified 150 times) at my laboratory at Visayas State University, revealed that the fine white sand is indeed composed of shell and coral fragments (see photo above).
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