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Some of the most magnificent sand dunes in the United States are not along an ocean but, rather, next to some of our "inland seas"--the Great Lakes. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore along Lake Michigan has some of the best sand dunes you'll find anywhere. Some plummet several hundred feet down to the crystal clear waters below.
There are dunes here as well but they get massacred
Italy's littoral policy makes me cry. You guys need to preserve what you got (and there's a lot of beauty) and make beaches public. And free.
Unfortunately, it's a cultural issue. Look at the differences between average public beach and the average private beach and you will find out that the latter offers more services having umbrellas, chairs and tables on spot. For a group of youngsters this may not matter but once you have a family it starts getting difficult bringing everything by yourself to sit in a clamped, dirty spot on an otherwise shiny beach. Lidi have their own merits for how they treat the beaches.
By the way, i don't know how it is in Emilia Romagna but there are large swaths of free beaches here. It's just that they are often more difficult to access but once you find out about them there are no problems getting there. The situation is improving though but not the most environmentally friendly party (Five Star Movement) has making beaches public amongst its own objectives
wow, those dunes filled up with water in Oregon really look like the Lençois Maranhenses in Brazil...
but I bet both the water and the air are very cold...
How much time the water remains forming the little lakes in the dunes? In the Lençois Maranhenses, the lakes are formed in the rainy season from February to June, and after the rain stops, they remain mostly filled up with water until October
Quite easily some of the best, most majestic dunes in the world, regardless of whether on a lake, sea or ocean.
I visited those dunes in Michigan on my trip up there this summer. Sleeping bear national park is an amazing place, the views are beautiful and the height of those dunes is impressive. I have not seen these other dunes which are overseas so I cannot compare, however I think many Americans are aware of the Lake Michigan dunes and no doubt they at least compare with these other places.
There also appears to be a lot of sand dunes on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea particularly in Turkmenistan, I couldn't find any photos though, but here is some satellite imagery https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5969.../data=!3m1!1e3
the access to the lençois maranhenses will become easier if and when they build a road between paulino neves and barreirinhas, making the travel from parnaiba shorter
Some nice dunes in northern Venezuela and Colombia also around Coro and La Guajira.
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