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Just got back a few days ago from Glass Beach in Ft. Bragg. There is even less to choose from than one year ago - unless you happen to like brown/green/clear; that's it. There were no rangers; just a few vacationers picking about - and a lot of disgusting trash. My husband and 1 of our 3 children just happened upon a beach much further south from there, met a very friendly sweet family headed by a kind young man named Charles - the man who had helped with the Travel Channel show we had never seen, and that is where we go now. Ft. Bragg alas is nothing now compared to what we have found further south of the once opulent Glass Beach. But if you do go: Please take your trash with you. Tks.
Glass Beach is a beach in MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, California that is abundant in sea glass created from years of dumping garbage into an area of coastline near the northern part of the town.
In the early 20th century, Fort Bragg residents threw their household garbage over the cliffs above what is now Glass Beach. They discarded glass, appliances, and even cars. The land was owned at that time by the Union Lumber Company, and locals referred to it as "The Dumps." Sometimes fires were lit to reduce the size of the trash pile.
In 1967, the North Coast Water Quality Board and city leaders closed the area. Various cleanup programs were undertaken through the years to correct the damage. Over the next several decades the pounding waves cleansed the beach, wearing down the discarded glass into the small, smooth, colored trinkets that cover the beach today.
In 2002, the California State Park system purchased the 38-acre (150,000 m2) Glass Beach property, and after cleanup it was incorporated into MacKerricher State Park. (Wikipedia)
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During the early years of the 20th century, the city of Fort Bragg in northern California began to dispose of its waste by tipping it over a cliff. The waste fell onto a strip of shoreline below, where it was washed away or corroded by the action of the sea. Known locally as “The Dumps,” the site was utilised for all manner of garbage until it was closed in the late 1960s.
In the 40 years since, Mother Nature has reclaimed the shoreline. The action of the waves has corroded or claimed most of the metal and other debris, replacing it with a patchwork covering of sea-glass stones which glitter in the sunshine. There are sea glass pieces of all shapes and sizes, and in almost all the colours of the rainbow.
In 2003, the beach was incorporated into the MacKerricher State Park and it is now illegal to remove the sea glass. That should help ensure that Glass Beach remains beautiful for many years. But it made us wonder how many years before the waves grind the sea glass into glass sand?
A few weeks ago we featured a story on Boston Sea Glass. This collection must make Alison’s mouth water!
another text via Sea Glass Sisters who has been there and collected lots of sea glass:
On May 27, 2011, we drove up to Fort Bragg, California for our second sea glass festival at Captain Cass's Sea Glass Museum - http://glassbeachjewelry.com/ It is a long drive from Palm Springs as Fort Bragg is several hours past San Francisco. We finally got to our motel and unloaded, then hit the beach. The coastline in Fort Bragg is strewn with cliffs and rocks. There is one sandy beach near where we go, but the best glass beaches are the ones you climb down the rocks to the beach below. One of the very best glass beaches is accessible by climbing, but it is off limits and posted with no trespassing signs. I really wanted to go there, but with my luck I would have been ticketed so we kept to the other sites. We picked up glass for about an hour then headed back to the motel.
Sea Glass Beach:
Sea Glass Sisters
here two pictures
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