Most sea glass is down where the pebbles are, the tide will drop it off.” “You go through the patches of cobble and tiny rocks, you go all the way to the lowest tide,” she said.
“A hundred years ago they would discard their garbage into the river.”īrown, aqua and clear glass were scattered about as well, found among the pebbles strewn about the beach, above the tide line, but below where larger rocks and boulders, driftwood and uprooted trees were blown ashore. “Humans always gravitate to a freshwater source,” Mary Beth said while walking along the beach. A freshwater stream gently flowed from the hills, under the bridge, and into the Straits.Īn old community long gone, was upstream, with residents likely throwing away glass bottles - from the light green-blue familiar Coke bottle to the dark blue sea glass that comes from old medicine bottles. First, it was remote, and not picked over. Mary Beth chose the beach for its promise of sea glass. “If you tell the site, it will be overrun the next day,” she said.
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