Waves transform Russian seaside from a dumping ground for bottles into a colourful ‘pebble beach’

The Sun ^ | 30 Jan 2017 | HANNAH CROUCH

[IYAS9YAS]

The day I realized the actual origin of most sea glass, a bit of my innocence died.

At the Hole n" the Rock south of Moab, UT, the proprietors sold "desert glass" which was made in much the same manner of which you speak. Rock tumbler and broken (green) Coke and (brown) beer bottles.

[JudgemAll]

If they break, yes

[bgill]

Arts and crafts types will have it all gathered up by next week.

[Parley Baer]

There is a lady in my neighborhood who is really into collecting sea glass. She goes quite often to the beach and collects sea glass.

[RightGeek]

Bookmark

[DUMBGRUNT]

What a fun photo!
No snow? is that from Russia?

[JimRed]

Notice that you don’t see any shore birds one would normally see oceanside.

Maybe the photographer scared them off.

[DUMBGRUNT]

“The bit about the van breaking down near an intersection, the driver going out into the grass, picking up a spare part that fit, putting it in and them driving away is particularly funny.”

That is quite a hook!
Pulled me right in, of all the old cars my kinfolk and I ,squeezing the last drop from...
A tale like that has to be good!
My local library does not have it, but available used and shipped for $4!

“just how miserable life is there”:
I suspect that the culture pushes the myth about how hard the life is.
Is it really, “Better in the Bahamas”?

[JimRed]

The bit about the van breaking down near an intersection, the driver going out into the grass, picking up a spare part that fit, putting it in and them driving away is particularly funny.

Maybe a setup by the driver, to give his tourist something to write about?

[ETL]

No snow? is that from Russia?

If you mean post 8, I don't know. Will have to see if I can find the source again.

[DUMBGRUNT]

10,000 degrees in the shade!

Trinitite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitite

[DUMBGRUNT]

“Maybe a setup by the driver, to give his tourist something to write about? “
Maybe?
But I have heard of many family outings and how they made home.
A favorite is the one where a rod let go, someone pulls them into town, they put a bob weight (counterbalance) on the crank and drove off into the sunset. Circa 1950’s

I called BS!
My uncle produced a JC Whitney catalog listing the bob weights for sale!!!

From a long line out of the Scottish Highlands...

[ETL]

Don't yet know where that other photo was taken, but this one below is supposedly from a place in Montana called Pebbles Beach.

Hard to believe these are natural stones with all of those wild colors.

[TXnMA]

On the islands and shore around Boston Harbor, that is known as "Sea Glass"...

[Conan the Librarian]

Naw, this was out in the middle of Siberia. 100 miles from no where. 1000 miles from where they started from.

It’s a great book and an interesting history. Gets into the WHY of the Siberian Exiles, Gulags, and the “Road of Bones”.