This is what’s known as the Bluestone Beach – a strip of seaside just west of Ende, Flores. It is blessed with a curiously blue stone that litter the otherwise black sandy beach.
Unfortunately, people have taken a liking to decorating their patios and fish tanks with the stones. Along the whole shore, a cottage industry has sprouted up, and the locals are filling sacks of rocks that they sell all over the island.
At the current rate of looting, I’m guessing that in a couple of years there will be no more Bluestone Beach. Flores will be a sight poorer for it.
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