I love going to the beach and I'm very lucky to always have lived near one.  I've lived in San Diego, Virginia Beach, Sicily, and the west coast of Spain.
I do not live near beach, but I go once a year. Beaches typically occur in areas along the coast , but I do not live near the cost.
Where do you go once a year?  My favorite was San Diego, on the La Jolla shore.  There's a lot of very small pebbles rather than sand.
I love to go to Greece. Greece has beautiful wild beaches, with untouched nature.
I really want to visit Greece someday with my wife.  We've been to Naxos in Sicily which is an old Greek city on island.  There's some really nice white sand there reminiscent of Greece.
I travel a lot, and the most beautiful beach I have ever seen was actually lake beach in Montenegro in Europe
I just looked up a photo and wow, that looks amazing.  You're very lucky to have had a holiday there.
My favorite type of beach is rock beach, because water is always so clear, you can see bottom everywhere.