Great Post!
Posted on 05/28/2017 12:12:39 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The unique cliff-sided beach on Ussuri Bay - known here as Glass Bay - has been likened on sunny days to sparkling jewellery or lighted candles.
Once jagged and dangerous shards of broken bottles, porcelain and tiles have been smoothed and polished by decades of erosion.
Nature corrected man's mistake, and stamped its own imprint.
The beach attracts throngs of tourists each summer, yet without more pollution it will be gone forever in two decades, partly due to souvenir hunters, says expert Professor Pyotr Brovko.
(Excerpt) Read more at siberiantimes.com ...
Could pass for the the Oregon coast.
Great Post!
Darned if you do darned if you don't!
A friend of mine was a long-time owner of what was called the “Glass Beach” on an island in Maine. We used to picnic there every summer.
Over the years, there was a tourist company on the mainland who used to bring people over, and one of the high spots was to collect glass trophies from the beach. The glass gradually disappeared. Too bad. There were some very beautifully colored nineteenth-century glass bottles that had been thrown away there many years ago.
Anyway, my friend collected a bunch of colored bottles and smashed them on the beach. In came the waves and the tides, and within a few years it was the Glass Beach again.
Seems like you could make your own with a rock tumbler (?)
Seems like you could make your own with a rock tumbler (?)
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This reeks of Cultural Appropriation.
Stolen from Pirates and their rum bottles, perhaps?
Or ?
Piratical appropriation?
Isn’t that what they do?
If you can manage to appropriate a little cement mixer, here you go:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-fake-sea-glass-at-home/
If you’re ever in Boston, take the cruise out into the harbor and stop at Spectacle Island. Before the Big Dig is was the garbage dump for the city and at one time there was a colony of people who lived there and did rendering and other smelly things. It is now a state park. You’re not supposed to take anything. The beach has sea glass and various other pieces of Boston history. Our son’s friend found a small ceramic doll from probably the 19th century. Lots of horse bones. Very interesting and now beautiful place.
Some stores actually sell manufactured “beach glass” now.
appropriate a little cement mixer
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Or Appropirate?
And I just do happen to have a little cement mixer.
And a desert full of sand and rocks, and some bottles.
It will be a worthy project to empty those bottles.
FR, curing Mother ERF’s problems one at a time.
You can make pretty things with it.
Do lots of cobalt glass. That’s always been expensive to make, and you find less of it on the beach.
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