It is both a hobby and a history — sea glass hunting around the Chesapeake Bay.
Fall begins Wednesday, but don’t let it keep you away from the beach. Cooler temperatures make autumn a perfect time to search for sea glass.
It’s glass that was once trash, transformed into frosty drops of treasure by decades of exposure to water and waves. All you have to do is pick it up.
Beaches around the Chesapeake Bay are a great place to start your search. Nancy LaMotte of West Fenwick, Delaware spoke with WTOP about her start to searching for sunken shards. She’s an artist and metalsmith who designs sea glass jewelry and sells it online and at festivals.
“I originally started looking for sea glass when my two children were very little…to get them outside and in the fresh air and do something fun,” LaMotte told WTOP. “I think I was surprised at what I was finding on the Chesapeake Bay.”
She said that she was surprised by and attracted to the appearance of the glass, drawn to hunt glass by the history it revealed.
“I was surprised that the pieces were so well worn and so beautiful and so gem-like in quality,” said LaMotte.”
History revealed
About 85% of sea glass comes from old bottles, according to LaMotte, and the most commonly found colors of sea glass are brown, green and white. Not a lot of bottles were made in colors like red, orange and yellow.
“They actually used a small percentage of gold in the batch of glass itself to maintain that color, and it was very, very expensive,”...
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