Okinawa Sea Glass - August 2011 Sea Glass Photo Contest

by Chad Charlton
(Okinawa Japan)

~ by Chad Charlton - Okinawa, Japan

This photo was taken in Okinawa japan, after a day of hunting on a beach we come to call glass beach, near Camp Schwab.

I took this photo on 31 August 2011, in the afternoon at around sun set 1815 (6:15 p.m.), using my digital Casio camera.

After our dive trip on the same day, had to set this picture up, just the way I pictured it when finding the clam shell on the bottom of the ocean.

The glass was found the same day. good diving, and glass hunting.





This special photo is in the August 2011 Sea Glass Photo Contest.

It is also entered in the 2011 Sea Glass Photo of the Year contest.

Even if the contest for a certain month is closed, your vote will count towards the Photo of the Year, announced in January of the following year.

Each photo in the contest can receive your votes.

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Added Information:

Okinawa, for many years under US control, was returned to Japan around 40 years ago. The southernmost prefecture of Japan, Okinawa is an island group familiar to many thousands of US servicemen and their families as well as other Americans who have lived and continue living there.

Of the approximately 50,000 US servicement stationed in Japan in the past few years, about 1/2 of them have been stationed on Okinawa.

Camp Schwab, although not found on a Google map, is in the Northeastern part of Okinawa.

Okinawa itself is a beautiful island with hundreds of miles of beaches. Although many of its beaches lie within the protection of coral reefs and don't get a lot of wave action, there are still a number of beaches that do receive continuous waves and are in areas heavily populated for many years, the possibilities for really good sea glass hunting are enticing.

This submission shows what treasures the island is giving up, and leaves clues to amount of unfound sea glass gem along Okinawa's coast.

~ Added by David from Odyssey Sea Glass's Pacific Rim temporary suboffices in Ecuador.

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