Checking the statistics of my website I just discovered how diverse and sometimes funny the search terms can be. Actually lots of visitors are browsing the Sand Atlas directly (either from bookmark or by just typing the www path in the address bar). However, many are landing at www.sand-atlas.com from a google inquiry and it’s really entertaining to look through all those search terms. For example, most searches are geology/mineralogy related, from sand shape to composition of certain sandstones in eastern Germany. ‘Sand color’ is also a very sought after term, as well as ‘foraminifera’ or the names of different places that I wrote about in my posts. There are also neat questions such as ‘is it ok to collect sand in kauai’ or ‘why does sand come in so many different colors’?