Glass Beach
N 39° 27.018 W 123° 48.781
10S E 430047 N 4367064
Nature turned a former dump site in Northern California into a famous tourist attraction
Waymark Code: WM5D08
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/20/2008
Published By:
Q10
Views: 30
Glass Beach, just north of Fort Bragg is famous far beyond California. And yet, it nothing more than a former dump site. Until 1967, this beach (like pretty much everything else in Fort Bragg) was owned by the Union Lumber Company. Locals referred to it as "The Dumps" and since there was no other place for household garbage, the beach served as the local dump for over 100 years.
Sometimes fires would be lit to reduce the size of the trash pile and what was left by the fire was taken by the ocean – except for the glass coming from thousands of jars and bottles. That got grated into small pieces and then polished into pebbles, Being heavier than sand, it gradually replaced everything else at the beach.
One has to be amazed about how forgiving nature is. Instead of striking the polluters with lightning, it took something incredibly nasty (a dump) and turned it into something incredibly beautiful!
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