Along the creek, she finds a shard of pottery. Mary Beth does find glass she also enjoys time outside, on the saltwater. “Pieces are getting smaller, getting tumbled and tumbled.” “The sea glass window is closing,” she said. Mary Beth said sea glass, with the decline of glass used for everything from car headlights to bottles, has been overtaken by plastic, but that is another story. She said surf-worn marbles are the Holy Grail.

She said the aqua color of bell-shaped electronic insulators are a good find after being smoothed by the sea. Most of the glass was small, the size of a dime or less. Most sea glass is down where the pebbles are, the tide will drop it off.” “You go through the patches of cobble and tiny rocks, you go all the way to the lowest tide,” she said. “A hundred years ago they would discard their garbage into the river.”īrown, aqua and clear glass were scattered about as well, found among the pebbles strewn about the beach, above the tide line, but below where larger rocks and boulders, driftwood and uprooted trees were blown ashore. “Humans always gravitate to a freshwater source,” Mary Beth said while walking along the beach. A freshwater stream gently flowed from the hills, under the bridge, and into the Straits.Īn old community long gone, was upstream, with residents likely throwing away glass bottles - from the light green-blue familiar Coke bottle to the dark blue sea glass that comes from old medicine bottles. First, it was remote, and not picked over. Mary Beth chose the beach for its promise of sea glass.

“If you tell the site, it will be overrun the next day,” she said.

Glow by Beth Kery