SkyBlue - July 2011 Sea Glass Photo Contest

by Laura
(Port Orchard Wa)

Southworth Beach, Washington State

by Laura from Port Orchard, Washington




This special photo is in the July 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.

To vote click on one or more of the social buttons below. One button equals 1 point. You may click 1, 2, or all 3 buttons according to the points you feel this photo deserves.

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Map of Sea Glass Location:

Added Info

Southworth is best known as one end of the Vashon Island ferry not far from Seattle.

Lying southwest of Seattle itself and on the western side of the Puget Sound, Southworth has a long history back into the early 1800s. Beaches are beautiful here but for sea glass conditions could be better.

Like other places on the Puget Sound, at the Seattle end of the natural waterway from the Pacific Ocean, these beaches are sheltered from ocean waves and rarely have waves above one foot, thus little wave action to tumble sea glass.

Glass shards are plentiful, especially around spots like ferry terminals that have been populated for many many years. And there are some nice finds as shown in this beautiful photo.

However, jewelry-grade sea glass is almost never found along much of the Puget Sound shores.

~ Added by David Schneider of OdysseySeaGlass ~

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See Also:

• June 2011 Alki Beach, Seattle - Sea Glass Catch
• The Natural History of Puget Sound Country
• Port Orchard Hotels

Afoot & Afloat North Puget Sound This book is a must-have for sea glass lovers hunting for treasures in the beautiful Puget Sound area. Lin and I own a copy and it has details of how to get to just about every accessible beach, cove, boat ramp, etc. Even better, it goes into the history of the particular beaches. For example, the closest beach to our temporary quarters here in Sequim, WA, is a beach called Port Williams. We wondered why in the world it is called a "port." All there is now is a boat ramp and a tiny county park surrounded by woods and fields. In detail, this book tells us that it once was the stop along a steamer route and had a post office, dance hall, restaurant, and residences. Now there isn't even a portapottie that we could find. But you can imagine the possibilities of old glass on the beaches described in this book - and other books of this series.