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How to Find Sea Glass

It takes time to 'get your eye in' when you're searching for sea glass. In fact, even as a seasoned sea glass hunter and beachcomber it will take a few minutes for my eyes to adjust to what I'm looking for on the beach. Add in looking for fossils and interesting shells and your eyes and brain are working overtime. So what helps you to find sea glass?



Stretch those eyes and look further afield

I actually find more sea glass widening my field of vision to include the periphery. This is particularly useful if you have just arrived at the beach and you're doing that first scour of the area to see if there's anything interesting to find on the surface - marbles, larger pieces of glass, ammonites. Anything like that you will find more of if you look more 'widelfy.' If you zone your eyes in to one particular spot, you're only looking in that one spot, and will miss whole sections of the beach.


Go back the way you came

Turn around, walk the same path you just walked, and you'll be surprised what you've missed. Especially pieces hiding under stones that you wouldn't have seen on your first walk past.


Search again, and again

Nothing worse than arriving at a beach, and finding that someone has already fully searched it from top to bottom. But don't let that put you off! There will always be more to find, and I found one of my best pieces of sea glass - a huge teardrop shaped nugget of ultraviolet, on a well searched beach, hiding amongst the pebbles on the high tide line. Likewise - just because the sea hasn't gone that high, don't not search the higher pebbles. The husband one found the most perfect codd marble, somewhere the sea hadn't reached for weeks!





Pebbles and shingles please!

Don't bother searching too hard in the sand, the best and more numerous finds are always in the shingles and pebbles. Find those beaches and you'll have more luck. Of course, on those beaches, do have a quick spy in the sand - you might just find something magical.


Get low

Once you've done your initial stroll around the beach, find a spot, get low and dig through the pebbles and shingles with your hands. You can find some perfectly formed smaller pieces this way - and they're usually smoother and older too.


Don't follow the tide out

Controversial I know, but it's ok to walk a tideline that's coming in and you'll find some beautiful shiny pieces this way. Either way, the tide is depositing and you'll find some nuggets. Likewise, if you're willing to get your feet wetter than the next sea glass hunter, then you'll be searching virgin ground! I found a turquoise codd marble once simply because I was willing to get soaked up to my teeshirt when I saw it! Nothing was going to stand in my way, and I would have willingly swam for it!





Search for pirate glass

There is always more pirate sea glass to find as people don't know to look for it. If you see a perfect black pebble, shine a torch through it and you might get lucky and be the owner of a lovely centuries old piece of history.


Rain, rain come back again!

Search in the rain, search after the storms, and search in windy weather. As long as it's safe to do so there is always more glass to find in Winter, and during the King tides, when the tides are especially high and low. Neap tides produce little as the sea hardly moves, and a mill pond sea won't rustle up wonderful treasures from the sea bed.


Enjoy yourself!

Don't get so carried away with searching that you forget to enjoy the search, the sea, the sand and, if you're lucky, the sun. After all, isn't that what it's all about?




Don't forget...

To take your rubbish home with you, and any other rubbish you find too. It's a great way to say thanks to the sea for all the treasures, and every little helps!


Sea and Ocean Plastic

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