Opening Day 2016

@016 Sea Glass Season Opener

It seemed like a long winter, but all is redeemed with the start of sea glass season.

It was absolutely perfect spring beach weather: sunny and not too breezy. There were plenty of people out, but they were mostly sunning themselves. I was one of the few beachcombers.

Sea glass conditions were good. There were a lot of pebble fields and the glass was all where it was supposed to be. Unlike the long day that was the final day of 2015, there was a lot of glass…and a lot of good glass.

Shown are the “best of”. The large clear was my day-maker. This is a great piece — hefty, fully smoothed, and fully frosted. I found it 4 inches away from the blue piece! That blue isn’t great, but blue is so rare (I often find nor more than one piece in a year) that they are all keepers. The two brown pieces are great because they look dusty. In reality, that haze is the glass decomposing. Under a loupe, you can see a crystalline structure which looks like its peeling away. It doesn’t wash off.

It felt good to get some sun and some sea glass!  .