When you walk across the white sands of Siesta Key beach, the experience is unforgettable! The sand is white sugar like powder, it feels soft and cool. The sand in Sarasota's Siesta Beach is very special, it's over 99% quartz. The crystals have worn down over time and they disperse the heat from the hot sun.
In holistic health and New Age circles quartz crystals are believed to have healing powers. They are said to have the ability to heal physically by stimulating the immune system, emotionally by balancing chakras and enhance spirituality.
Even if you don't believe the New Age mumbo jumbo view, it is a fact that quartz crystals is one of the highest vibratory minerals of the earth. Quartz is a natural conductor of energy. The conversion of quartz crystals into silicon chips has transformed technology, quartz based silicon chips have given us the ability to store and transmit information on our mobile phones and computers.
All I know is that I went there feeling exhausted and emotionally drained and by the end of the evening I was dancing carefree on the beach (and this was before I knew about sand being quartz). One day I will surely return to this magical beach. Sarasota is located in the west coast of Florida on the shores of Gulf of Mexico, about an hour drive south from Tampa.