There are signs telling you not to visit this beach, which isn’t just sand, it’s also asbestos – industrial waste from a factory just up the coast, now long since abandoned.
People ignore the signs, as you can tell by all the writing they’ve done, scraping the grey surface off the white underneath. How many people will get mesothelioma as a result? Exposure to asbestos on a single occasion (or a few) isn’t the same as years working in an asbestos factory, but it’s still a risk I’d not take unnecessarily.
How much asbestos dust blows off this beach in windy weather? The village of Nonza (from where I took this shot) is 150m (500') above the beach, so maybe not much blows up so high, but where does it go? There are places lower down just along the coast, and boats passing by.
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