From 38d774da70341ac16e77992f82754d6e7c9ec6bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: luxagraf Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:14:36 -0800 Subject: archived published posts --- .../2017-11-08_the-absense-of-glass-beach.txt | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 published/2017-11-08_the-absense-of-glass-beach.txt (limited to 'published/2017-11-08_the-absense-of-glass-beach.txt') diff --git a/published/2017-11-08_the-absense-of-glass-beach.txt b/published/2017-11-08_the-absense-of-glass-beach.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..37decc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/2017-11-08_the-absense-of-glass-beach.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +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. + + + + + + + + + +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: + + + +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. + + + +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. + + + + +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. + + + +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. + + -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2