Sea Glass Locations Throughout the World: The How to Find Sea Glass Book

By Yvonne Aileen and Celeste Mapleton

How Can You Find the Best Sea Glass Anywhere You Travel?

 

Sea glass beaches are often a closely guarded secret. How often have you been this close to a great sea glass beach and not even known it? Don't let those treasures slip through your hands into someone else's (or worse, back to the sea forever).

 

Wouldn't it be great to have a guide you could check every time you traveled? Or, even plan your next vacation around a sea glass hot spot? Sea glass is located in some of the most picturesque exciting places in the U.S. and the world. In Sea Glass Locations Throughout the World, you'll learn:

• Which abundant sea glass locations still allow you to collect glass
• Locations known for their rare colors and patterns
• The top 50+ sites in the U.S. for sea glass hunting
• The top 20+ global locations to find the rarest gems, many of them rarely visited and just waiting on the beach to be discovered
• How to time your beachcombing for the best success

If you'd like to add rare and beautiful pieces to your sea glass collection, this is the guide you need for insider secrets to the best beach locations for sea glass hunters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: 800 Muses Publishing
• Release date: Oct 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201697297

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Sea Glass Locations Throughout the World

The where to find sea glass book

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Celeste Mapleton

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800 Muses Publishing, 800MUSES.COM

Portland, Oregon

Copyright © 2021 by Celeste Mapleton and 800 Muses Publishing

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Sea Glass Locations Throughout the World/ Celeste Mapleton —1st ed.

Contents

Shards

Milk Glass

Marbles

Frosted Glass

Fused Glass

Sea Glass with Tell-Tale Origins

Flat Glass

Pottery Shards and Ceramics

Chapter 2 Sea Glass Shapes

Triangles

Rounded Shapes

Heart Shapes, Ellipses, and Many Other Shapes

Chapter 3 Sea Glass Colors

Chapter 4 Sea Glass Locations

Timing

Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Hawaii

East Coast

Other U.S. Locales

International Locations

Using Sea Glass

Displaying Sea Glass

Dedicated to treasure seekers everywhere

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I have enough sea glass.

― No One, Ever

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An Introduction to Sea Glass

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Sea glass has been called mermaid tears and ocean jewels. If you’re reading this book, you probably call it what I do: an obsession. But since I don’t know where you are in that obsession and to make sure we’re all on the same page, this book starts with an introduction to sea glass types, shapes, and colors. This will help ensure that when we discuss which type of sea glass can be found in which location, we have the same reference point.

Perhaps you, like me, can remember vividly the day the sea glass bug bit. For me it happened like this: I was walking along a beach on Maui and noticed a woman sorting through a handful of sand and shells she’d scooped up from the beach. Curious, I asked her what she was looking for.

Sea glass, she answered.

What’s that? I asked. At that moment, my better angels were probably shouting, Noooooo! but it was too late. She answered me, and the hook was set.

Since that time, I’ve planned entire vacations around sea glass hunting, recruited friends and family members to join me, and amassed a modest (by my standards,