From a30c790edea652494e7481f6798047a3bc1fd4ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: luxagraf Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:43:36 -0500 Subject: added a backup of old pages that are no longer live --- .../jrnlold/2017/11/absence-glass-beach.html | 427 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 427 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2017/11/absence-glass-beach.html (limited to 'bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2017/11/absence-glass-beach.html') diff --git a/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2017/11/absence-glass-beach.html b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2017/11/absence-glass-beach.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bd14b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/bak/oldluxpages/jrnlold/2017/11/absence-glass-beach.html @@ -0,0 +1,427 @@ + + + + + The Absence Of Glass Beach - by Scott Gilbertson + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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The Absence of Glass Beach

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Mendocino Coast, California, U.S.

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After Halloween we made our way south, ducking inland and around the Lost Coast, down to Fort Bragg where we finally, for a few days at least got some sunshine. Not that it was warm mind you, but at least we saw the sun for two days in a row.

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I never wrote about it here, but Corrinne and I visited this area about a decade ago and went to a little, out of the way, somewhat inaccesible beach called Glass Beach. The name refered to the fact that the entire shoreline was glass shards, the soft, sea-polished variety some people call seaglass. If I remember correctly it was there because there used to be a wrecking yard or a garbage dump or some combination of those things on the bluff above. At the time, 2009 , the glass was several feet deep and covered from the low tide line well up past high tide. It looked like this:

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Today it is all gone. People came and carted it home in buckets. We read about the loss of glass beach on the internet, but I confess I didn’t really believe it until I saw it. It really is gone. I even saw two people trying to fill a bucket with the tiny amount of glass that still remains here and there. I have no idea what people do with a bucket of seaglass, presumably it all sits in garages and dens around the country, forgotten. Somehow, to me, this perfectly encapsulates America today: steal what’s everyone’s for yourself and then never even use it.

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Assholes with buckets. Greed. This is why we can’t have nice things people.
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At least there were still tidepools to explore. There wasn’t much life in them, but give a kid some puddles and rocks and they’ll be occupied for hours.

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Because it’s Northern California in the Autumn the rain inevitably returned. People always ask, what do you do when it rains? Answer: we get wet. If you look closely at the left edge of the image below there’s a deer, also getting wet.

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Fort Bragg also turned out to be home to the third Travco we’ve run across in our travels. This one, sadly, is unlikely to ever move again.

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