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Lake Erie Beach Glass  Photo Courtesy of Joiseyshowaa

Lake Erie, from Cleveland to Conneaut, Ohio, is a mecca for beach glass and beach glass enthusiasts.

The old ...

Shell Beach, California Beach Glass Report  Name of Beach and Comments: Shell beach

Location: .5 miles north of Pismo Beach, California...

I have found ALL colors there. I promise you ...

Long Beach Peninsula Sea Glass? Travelogue...  We took a couple days off and drove out to the Long Beach peninsula to stay in Ocean Park WA.

We had planned this trip back at the end of July - first ...

Playa Media Luna, Isle Mujeres Mexico - Sea Glass Report  Wed Sep 16 Playa Media Luna - Sea Glass

We found two pails full in about 2 hours. There was much more; however we took only what we wanted.

The ...

Sea Glass - Cape Charles, Virginia  Cape Charles, Virginia - Photo Courtesy of   David & Tracy

Name of Beach and Comments: Cape Charles

How would ...

Fort Bragg Glass Beach  FORT BRAGG GLASS BEACH   Have you heard about Fort Bragg Glass Beach? Where is it? Can anyone collect ...

Sea Glass Nova Scotia - Walkers Beach at Inverness  Sea Glass Nova Scotia - Walkers Beach at Inverness Inverness, Canada
Small mining town beautiful spot for several colors of sea ...

Sea Glass - Alki Beach, West Seattle, Washington  (Wikipedia photo)

Sea Glass - Alki Beach, West Seattle, Washington.

Alki Beach has been a major party beach in the Seattle area for more ...

Sea Glass in Brier Island Nova Scotia  (Photo By Jimmuck)
Sea glass has become a favorite past time of mine over the last few years. I collect it whenever I can and go ...

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico Sea Glass 
Fuerte De San Cristobal with the City... Buy From Art.com

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico - Beach accessed by steps across from capital building,...

Black Point Sea Glass, Connecticut  View Larger Map Black Point Beach, Connecticut

Name of Beach and Comments: Black Point - The best blue glass ever!

How would you ...

Tower Road Beach "Lake Glass" 
Tower Road Beach Click to zoom.

Name of Beach and Comments: Tower Road Beach is actually on Lake Michigan in Winnetka Illinois.

There ...

Glass Beach, Guantanamo  View Larger Map Glass Beach, Guantanamo

Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, Caribbean

Name of Beach and Comments: Glass Beach - It lives ...

Sea Glass - Seaside, California  Sea Glass at Seaside, California ( Click on images to zoom) Yes, you need to get wet to get the good glass. There are ...

Sea Glass Spain - Nova Icaria Beach, Barcelona 

Nova Icaria – Sea Glass

July 13, 2009 - Barcelona's beach near Port Olympic... Nova Icaria might be the name.   Great amounts of sea ...

Old New Castle Delaware Beach Glass  View Larger Map
Old New Castle
Beach, DE - Beach Glass
There is plenty of sea glass here, some large pieces some small.

We picked ...

Sea Glass - Ediz Hook, Port Angeles, WA  View Larger Map Ediz Hook

Sea Glass - Ediz Hook, Port Angeles, WA - Sea Glass
Ediz Hook is a one & a half mile spit. North ...

Sea Glass - Ile d'Orleans. Quebec, Canada  My husband and I were touring the island which is close to Quebec City.

We just happened to stop and take a walk on the beach and found lots and lots ...

Sea Glass - Cinnamon Beach, Palm Coast, Florida  Name of Beach and Comments: Palm Coast FL~ Cinnamon Beach UNBELIEVABLE....found over 50 pieces in two days!

How would you rate this beach for sea ...

Sea Glass Grand Manan - New Brunswick, Canada  You can find a ton of beach glass at Grand Manan.

You will find lots of beach glass behind the little motel in Grand Manan. The motel is practically ...

Conneaut Beach, Ohio - Sea Glass  Name of Beach and Comments: Conneaut Beach.

You can find many blue pieces of sea glass here.

How would you rate this beach for sea glass?: Good ...

Pescadero, California Sea Glass  For kicks, last weekend we were surfing at the beaches just above
Pescadero and there was sea glass everywhere! I probably got 30
pieces in half an ...

Mero Beach, Dominica Sea Glass  View Larger Map

Country: Dominica

Name of Beach and Comments: Mero Beach, Dominica Sea Glass.

Not the nudist part. A guide took us to ...

Tolchester Beach, Maryland, Sea Glass  Tolchester Beach, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland

How would you rate this beach for sea glass?: Excellent (16+ jewelry grade pcs. found per hour)
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Grand Cayman Island Beach Glass  Click
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Just returned from a trip to Grand Cayman on 4/13/09.

Cobalt Coast and Old Man Bay Cemetery had very little sea ...

The most unexpected beach to find sea glasses  I'm just back from Hawaii,with a big handful of sea glasses AND a very old piece from a blue apothecary jar !
where did I find them ? On Waikiki Beach,...

Bar Island - Bar Harbor, Maine - Sea Glass  Maine Sea Glass

Rated Excellent! The rock bound coast of Maine is a great place to find sea glass of all colors.

The glass in maine has a ...

Corona Del Mar Sea Glass  My name is Logic the California Weather Authority and as a child I clearly LOL remember this sea glass I was not aware until reading your web site that ...

BAJA MEXICO - Cabo San Lucas Sea Glass  HI---JUST GOT BACK FROM CABO SAN LUCAS!!! FOUND SOME GOOD SEA GLASS ON CHILENO BAY...WE DIDN'T GET A LOT, BUT SOME GOOD JEWELRY QUALITY PIECES! WEATHER ...

Antigonish Canada Beach Glass  Mahoney's Beach, north of Antigonish


Country: Canada
State/Prov: NS
Name of Beach and Comments: Pretty much any part of the beach along ...

St. Petersburg, Plum Island sea glass?  Name of Beach and Comments: have lived in st.petersburg fl for 12 years and am an avid beachcomber and have never found any sea glass on St.Pete beach,...

Frankston Beach Beauty  What can I say?

I could hardly believe my eyes!

Life had been pretty hectic and I had decided to drive on down to the only place in the whole world ...

Beach Glass Collecting and List of Sea Glass Beaches  Here's an interesting comment by Lin (my live-in companion, ie, wife)about the long lists of beaches here on Odyssey Sea Glass:

"You might have read ...

Thailand Sea Glass  Name of Beach and Comments: Ban Saray, Sattahip, Rayong (Eastern Seaboard of Thailand south of Pattaya).

High (approx. Dec-June), good beachcombing;...

Black Sea - Glass Beach, Ukraine 
My wife and I recently went to Ukraine and found a lot of sea glass on the Black Sea.

The beach we went to was so populated with sea glass ...

Sea Glass - Cama Beach, Camano Island  Sea Glass - Cama Beach, Camano Island


We had high hopes for finding lots of glass at this beach, the latest addition to the Washington State ...

Sea Glass - Hatillo, Puerto Rico  View Larger Map
I find seaglass everyday in the morning and in the afternoon.

This beach is a seaglass haven. I always find red, pink, cobalt,...

Sea Glass - Grand Case, St. Maarten/St. Martin  Grand Case, St. Maarten/St. Martin (on French side of island).

Mostly green beach glass but I found a few pieces of brown and one beautiful piece ...

Scarborough, Tobago Beach Glass  "Trinidad & Tobago"

To get to the beach where we found glass, exit the ferry and turn left onto Milford Road (5 blocks away):

Rockly Bay Beach ...

Sea Glass - Connecticut Beaches  Add Names of Beaches:

Stratford, Connecticut
Rocky Neck State Park, Lyme CT
Guilford CT
Hammonnasset State Park, Madison CT
West Haven CT

(Not ...





What is the definition of a beach?

A beach is a geological land formation along the shoreline of a body of water such as the ocean, or a larger river. A beach is usually made up of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, pebbles, small rounded rocks. Some beaches in tropical areas are made almost entirely of broken down coral or shells, thus having biological origins.

What makes a beach different than just a shore? Probably the width more than anything. It usually clearly marks a wide border between the water and the start of vegetation growth.

There are several identifiable parts to a beach, depending on what has formed the beach.

The part mostly above water (depending upon tide), and more or less actively influenced by the waves at some point in the tide, is termed the beach berm. The berm is the deposit of material that makes up the active shoreline. The berm has a crest (top) and a face — the face being the slope leading down towards the water from the crest. At the very bottom of the face, there may be a trough, and further seaward one or more longshore bars: slightly raised, underwater "hills" formed where the waves first start to break.

The sand deposit may extend well inland from the berm crest, where there may be evidence of one or more older crests (the storm beach) resulting from very large storm waves and beyond the influence of the normal waves. At some point the influence of the waves (even storm waves) on the material making up the actual beach stops, and, if the particles are small enough (sand size or smaller), the wind begins to shape the sand. When the wind blows the sand particles beyond the berm of the beach itself and they begin to pile up, they form dunes. Dunes are not the actual beach.

These features make up what is called the beach profile. The beach profile changes during the course of the year due to the change in wave action during calm and storm seasons. The beach profile is higher during the summer or calmer season because of the gentler wave action during this season.

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