How do you explain in detail a description of a beach?

Answer 1

Aim to involve all the senses of the reader/listener.

What can you see? Hear? Smell? Touch? Taste? It might be hard to find a suitable description for a few of the senses, but involving them anyway will help hook the reader into your description.

What is happening? Are there people? What are they doing? Why?

Describe the waves, what the wind is doing, the temperature and how it all makes you feel. Is it grey or colourful? Is anyone in the water? Are there boats and skiers? And the sky. Is it blue and cloudless? Will the weather change? How do you know? Is it attractive for visitors? Why/why not?

What different sounds can you hear? Sea-birds, children, waves crashing on the shore, the sound as the water is sucked out for the next wave, the rigging of boats smacking against their masts, jet-skis and the smell of the fuel, maybe a fun fair? People's radios? Vendors plying their wares?

Touch the sand and everything within reach. How does it feel? How would you describe it? What memories are evoked? What is the beach for? Can the beach be used as a metaphor for anything in life?

The smell of sunscreen, fries, and that salty sea air you always find when you're near sea water... Including all of these descriptions will help create a great piece of writing which will really entice the reader.

If you involve all the senses, your description will help the reader to experience in their imagination all that you are experiencing, and they will be enriched by it.

Answer 2

Make sure you mention all the different aspects of it, such as the sun, sea, sand, etc.