Beach glass

How many of you out there hunt beach glass?

I’m finding that most of the places where I find great beach glass are places that are more private, so before reading a local review on where to go look for beach glass in a nice vacation spot, respect the local customs. It’s always nice to keep those more private areas private. If you find a great place to go beach glass hunting, I usually keep it to myself. There are some places here that are well-known for beach glass hunting, those beaches are combed through regularly every time low tide hits. And those beaches or places were people love to go and commune with what they have in common, beach glass!

As beautiful and enticing as these softly sanded explosions of color are to collect please remember that the more people you tell about these special places the more tourists you will find there. So share these spots sparingly.

I don’t often mark the exact location of great beach glass out of respect for the residents of these private homes. Local residents like to keep things local often times.

But if you should happen to stumble upon one of these great beach glass beaches, do you want to go at low tide, After a rain storm or After you have had big waves. That’s when the biggest fattest juiciest pieces of beach glass wash up. Sometimes you can find entire bottles, sometimes you can find large chunks of glass that have been printed, sometimes you’re even lucky enough to find marbles wash up, you just never know! A lot of these sites where there is great beach glass used to be dumping grounds or possible locations of shipwrecks so there seems to be an endless supply of glass.

But keep in mind that the supply is not endless, it takes upwards of 30 years to perfectly polish a piece of beach glass, the more polished and soft it is the older the glass is. Often times you can find dates stamped in the glass, that’s always exciting! The most common colors for beach glass are white, brown, green. Some more rare colors include different colors of blue but the most rare colors we see out here are red, you can seem to find more small slivers of red then large stamped pieces but they’re out there! Orange and yellow which are rare and super exciting to collect but even more rare is uranium glass, you can only tell if it’s really uranium glass by putting a black light on it if it is uranium glass it will glow bright fluorescent green under the black light. Purples and pinks are incredibly rare, when I find these colors I get really excited!

So I’m gonna ask the question again, how many of you out there hunt beach glass? What’s the most exciting color for you to find? I know I get the most excited when I find multiple colors in one piece of glass. Painted glass. Beautiful elaborate tile. Obviously I just get excited when I see any Seaglass even the white and clear sea glass. The white sea glass normally being from an old cold cream jar and the clear Seaglass being from clear glass bottles and what not.