Posted on 06/02/2013 3:22:31 PM PDT by bgill
There is a beach in Fort Bragg, California, that’s famous for the iridescent sea glass that shimmers on its shores. A dump until the 1960s, Glass Beach underwent massive cleanup projects in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but the glass from bottles and other items remained, worn smooth over time as it tumbled through the ocean...
In fact, even though removing sea glass from the beach is prohibited, rangers from California State Parks, which owns the beach, see people taking the smooth, pebble-like glass pieces home in Ziploc bags and buckets all the time
(Excerpt) Read more at grindtv.com ...
Pretty.
Ignorant liberals continue to amaze. Maybe if I take a dump and call it compost one of them will come declare my bathroom a national historic site.
Start tossing more glass out there.
I’d agree, except the first dummy who cut his/her feet would make a federal case out of it...literally.
With the right targeting, detonation altitude, and megatonnage, we could easily create as many glass beaches as we wanted just about anywhere we wanted to. :=)
Bunch of jerks—liberals and park rangers.
A friend of mine owns the Glass Beach on an island in Maine that we spend the summers on. It was old glass bottle that were dumped there in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A tour outfit from the mainland used to bring summer visitors there for many years in the 1960s and after, and each group of visitors would pick up glass, until there was not much left.
So, when my friend inherited the beach, he took a bunch of bottles—blue, green, other interesting colors—and busted them all over the beach. Within a few years it was worn smooth, and now the kids can pick up beach glass there again.
Typical government environmentalist thinking in this article—not allowed to pick it up, not allowed to make more of it, not allowed to do this, not allowed to do that. . . . And the guys who set the rules are mostly ignorant jerks.
Some kid will find it on the shoreline, all smooth and pretty, maybe in 50 years or so.
I just throw the bottles out...Figure a boat will probably hit em' and sink em...
“She is beyootiful.” (from “The Lost Ark”)
Odds are that it’s liberals who are packing the glass out.
This will blow your mind
$300 for chunks of glass.
Can you imagine one of *us* spending money on that?
I sure can’t.
*If* I wanted some, I’d just toss broken glass into a cheap rock tumbler for a few days.
Put up a sign that says “Nude Beach”, then sell band-aids. Make a million!
It is rally easy to create “sea glass” using a rock tumbler.
Now you've given the secret away. I suspect the Park Service keeps tumblers going night and day to replenish the supply on the beach. No glass, no government jobs/benefits.
I suspect that some of those high dollars ‘big chunks’ on eBay were born in somebody’s basement.
Great racket, actually.
There is one in Oregon as well ... 30 plus tears ago I used to take my siblings there to “Find Treasure”
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It’s hard to find “Cape May Diamonds” anymore. Maybe I should go toss some bottles over the bridge at the Water Gap. People of 1000 years from now will thank me.
Wow! We live in Ft. Bragg. Could not believe my eyes when I read this headline and thought someone else has a glass beach also. Yes, in it’s day it was quite fun to go down there and collect all sorts of glass. People still do, but pickens are scarce.
Why does this picture make me think of Looter Guy?
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