Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Beach Glass III

By the time I made my third beach glass expedition I was feeling very plastic. I had seen every color of plastic on beaches on the east coast. I knew exactly where I could satisfy my desire for beach glass. On Kauai's Glass Beach.

Glass Beach was once the town dump, on the south side of the island, near a power plant and the harbor, Port Allen. I won't describe it any further because someone wrote an article about it last year, and it has been discovered.

Glass Beach is not a destination. There is space to park half a dozen cars, there is no beautiful vista, and it truly is in an industrial area. The glass heats up and radiates warmth, and there is always a chance that a tiny crumb of glass will end up in your foot. But there are buckets and buckets of beautiful multicolored glass.

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