Glass Covers This Beach and People Like It That Way
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- čas přidán 29. 04. 2019
- Glass Beach in Fort Bragg, California is home to an entire beach of small pieces of glass. It is the result of a town dump which started back in 1906 and was shut down in 1967. What remains are millions and millions of these colorful glass particles.
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4:02 heart shaped in the middle
For the people that can't see it, it's on a black rock in the middle lower right of the guy's hands.
Vincent Tremblay You have good skills for spotting stuff :P
I saw it too I was like did this guy see it
You have good skills for spotting stuff :p
I would say the rock is more of a gray rather then a black
good job man is a perfect shape of heart I always presumed to have a 20/20 vision but you just have made me see my sad reality
This guy has a voice that can soothe a baby to sleep.
nah you're just gay
@@Gangster808 like ratio of 90:1 says otherwise
@@reeeeeeeoli6537 they all gay dumbass
John Tyree imagine him stubbing his toe that's got to crack glass
Low Key Otaku
Are you an internet troll from 2009?
It’s easier to believe that time travel exists than it is to believe that people are as dumb as you.
Unbelievable colors and amount of glass. Red and blue are always the rarest.
we make our own on the east coast and sell it, find a hidden spot and put a bunch of broken colored glass in with the rocks and in a year the waves rounds all the edges smooth .
Paul Stan cool thanks
@@dasbronco
I use an industrial rock tumbler with clay pellets and it takes about 4-5 days.
@@spikefivefivefive thats smart. i like that idea. its crazy what people will pay or charge for some broken glass
Red is rare because red is the most expensive color glass to produce
Unfortunately now it's plastics. You could argue that glass can be recycled by nature at least.
With very rare exceptions, the glass will long outlast plastic. Glass generally isn't broken down by UV in sunlight.
Plastics do have natural sources breaking them down as they have found a few types of bacteria that eat types of plastic including one they accidentally supercharged when examining it that eats the plastic used in water bottles. There is a fungus from the Amazon that eats the plastic used to make bowling balls. And the oddest one is the Wax moth caterpillar can break down soda bottles
@@steveh1792 Glass is biologically inert, it can hardly be considered a pollutant and doesn't noticeably impact wildlife.
Plastic is a pollutant, it kills marine mammals, and interferes with hormones when ingested.
Isnt glass made of sand?
@@ok__6441 Yes. That's kind of the whole point of Chris' video here, that nature is kind of recycling all that glass. They're all worn and slowly eroding back into grains of sand essentially.
8:40 Lookout a giant sea otter is behind you.
I saw that... Pretty cool..
Haha good eye
Lol!!
A good example of pareidolia.
😂👍👍
Fun fact, on the Isle of Wight south of uk, they recycle glass into ballast for concreting and when the concrete is finished you see all the bits of glass in it.
Fun fact. I have glass in my windows and also two glass eyeballs. And a glass jaw.
@@superlazy3355 you stupid boy respect yourself and I'll make a spectacle out of yourself
@@AliA-md2eo i fucking wheezed🤣
They got that in Los Angeles ain't nothin new
My front steps are concrete made from creek sand and rocks back in the 50's I think. You can see bits of bottles and plastic in there, there's even an intact bottle bottom on the surface of the bottom step. It looks like someone stuck a bottle in there upside down when the concrete was still wet.
Its sad that even though we trash our ocean the ocean tries to make it beautiful.
The ocean is water. It doesn't try anything you psycho 😭
@@chad_usa how does what I said make me a psycho....keyboard warrior....
@@kristicourtney8099 The ocean can't try anything. It's water...
@@justsomeguywithnomustache6245 yeah i don’t believe in the ocean making decisions for itself either 😂
I'm a chronic rock picker and I would be in HEAVEN. Thank you for showing it
Love picking rocks. However, now I live on a tropical island so now it's just corals and shells.
Beth Roesch Same! My favorites are the tumbled quartz stones that you can find on the beaches where I live, they usually only churn up after a few days after a heavy storm but they are gorgeous 💙
@@ayla5094 I live in Ohio so I like to crawl around the rivers and creeks. I like my pink and blue rocks. I tell my daughter, I don't choose the rocks, they choose me lol.
Well I know chronic Rock smokers and they would be so pissed being brought to this beach
You arent supposed to take the glass
A lot of those striking colored glass are depression glass pieces. Many people still collect depression glass plates glasses and such.
Oh yes
Joy Gill all the lead keeps the color vibrant
What is depression glass?
Went to glass beach back when I was about 8 on a camping trip! Wasn’t really frowned upon to take glass back then, I had a ziplock full of amber blue red and white glass for the colors of America. Won’t ever forget that
Rumor has it the Infinity Stones are located there
Mitchell Rhodes is like but you have 69 likes so. Don’t want to ruin it
What's an infinity stone???
TheSaldana131
It is a movie reference. The infinity stone is from the movie avengers, and it’s just a stone that gives you power
Growing up with a crafty mother there was always a lot of sea glass in our house. She loved crafting with it and glued it to everything she could!! Every time I see it I think of my Mom. She would have loved this place!
I like that Bro🇯🇲🇯🇲
The beach with broken glass :-O
People in the past were not much smart with their environment.
Better for the environment than plastic.
@@charamia9402 agrid
@@charamia9402 agreed
And we are "better" today? The ocean and landfills are filled with plastic.
@@charamia9402 Plastic is worst mistake of Mankind
I am glad that a place like this so close to my home has became a tourist attraction. And yes, the glass is okay to take. None of the three sites are illegal to take glass from. Fort Bragg is not a state Park, or anything, taking the glass is basically considered cleaning up the environment.
My dad did his training at Fort Ord which now sits empty with all the homeless people I don't understand why they can't reopen and teach them to take care of the place that way they'd have an address and be able to be kept a better eye on and possibly receive medical treatment and some well needed psychiatric treatment, instead of letting the place right away my dad went back to visit recently and said he was very upset at the state of Fort Ord. He said they kept that place in Immaculate condition and it was a source of Pride for the officers being that was her home away from home and now it sits with the grass unkempt. It really upset my old man. He was stationed there waiting to take off for Vietnam witch fortunately didn't happen for him his number never came up thank God thank God
I love beach glass. You can make beautiful artwork and jewelry with beach glass
I grew up in Mendocino County, CA. My parents were teachers, and after taking classes where they learned to make art from found objects, had interest in Glass Beach. We visited Glass Beach several times in the 1970s and I continued to visit there through the 1980s, 90s and 2000s on trips home after I moved out of state. Over the years a lot of glass was removed, and the last time I went there, there was not as much glass as you found. Winter storms move the contents of the beach around, so more washes up. In the 1970s, to get to Glass Beach, you had to trespass through lumber mill property. There were no trails or signs. You had to be in the know to get there. It is a secret no longer, but is much easier to get to. Glass Beach is one of my favorite places!
Hi, the blue's and greens are really pretty, especially when the sun catches them. Thanks for sharing your wondrous journey. x
Wow!! Love looking for sea glass I’ve found some along Lake Erie and even in Cuba when I was stationed there. But never to that extent. That would be fun to walk that beach.
I do remember at the bluffs of Lake Ontario in the Scarborough area back in the mid 70s millions of rounded green translucent glass pebbles there on the beach, I went back there a few years ago and I can not find one.
There is some kind of Tumblr that does the same thing to glass
@marsxo Even though he said it was protected? Why don't they just order the glass tumbler from Amazon and leave the place for others to enjoy? Sad. :(
Thank you for your service :)
I remember going for rock hunting in the sea and I found a grey sea glass. I was really young that time and my mom didn’t care that much so now I lost it. I regret not keeping it somewhere safer after some research that grey sea glass are really rare. I had to go through hell just for hunting rocks in the sea.
Thank you Chris,Super cool video as always! Wow,That is amazing and like your attitude about something nice out of a sad practice.Stay well.Safe travels,,73
Would absolutely love to see it in person. Thanks for taking us along!
Hey Chris. Great video. Next time you go to Southern New Jersey stop in Cape May and look for some "Cape May Diamonds" at Diamond beach. Definitely worth checking out.
Good stuff man. I can't wait to take my son across the country and explore! Thanks to you my list of things to do and see is growing!
Be safe and enjoy!
Dear Fort Bragg,
This video was the catalyst for our trip from Washington to Ft Bragg for a small vacation. 3 nights hotel, dining out for every meal, shopping, etc....
Pay this man!
kool thanx////grew up in Bodega Bay.....Fort Bragg is classic...the human journey continues
today's garbage dump is tomorrow's anthropologist's playground.
Not tomorrow, more lile a century or even thousands of centuries. But ok.
Unless its plastic
forensic paleontologist, not anthropologist (study of racial features, in the strict sense).
@@deoce if they really have to say that for you to understand the point of the post then you’re dense af
@@deoce duh
Another new thing I learned from you. Thanks again for an interesting and informative new place for us to tour.
That's crazy. I grew up in northern California and never new that was there. Thanks for sharing.
It’s neat how it looks like colorful rocks until you do a close up view, neat place
Tourists - my my my mine!
I want some and I live in Australia lol
If you live here, You can’t take them...
I’ve been there a few times over the years, I live a few hours south in Santa Cruz.
Thank you for trip down memory lane.
OMG sea glass! Wish I was there!! it is so beautiful thank you Chris1
You never cease to amaze me. You take us on such incredible explorations. Ty for sharing your videos and adventures. HUGS and blessings from NY State 🏞🌌🌠👣😎👍
I clicked on the thumbs up button. It went from 1.3K to 1.4K.
I guess my vote counts as 100.
Sweet!!
Just amazing Chris! Thanks you for all you show us.
Nice video Chris...it's amazing what the power of the ocean can..stunning scenery...thanks for sharing.
Blue glass is from Noxzema cream bottles. it was used as sunscreen before sunscreen.
Blue glass could also be glass products produced by Thomas Jefferson. It's a very beautiful tent. They also came with a green color to. My granny has a whole stand up viewing chest filled with Thomas Jefferson jars of all kinds. When the sun comes through the windows, and shines on them the kitchen glows with awesome colors
@@brandonrichardson9569 That's quite possible for that location and other US coastal sites. I live in Nova Scotia and years ago my Grandfather and uncles who were all fishermen use to use Noxzema for their sunscreen. I still find that blue glass today on our beaches. Thanks for your insight. Cheers!!
Milk of magnesia had beautiful blue bottles same colour as noxzema jars.
When I was younger we always used Noxema in the blue glass jar for sunburn, it felt so cooling, I even used to put it in the fridge to heighten the effect.
Green is Heineken
Unfortunatly it takes many years to make broken glass safe to walk on. University of Hawaii Maui tried to use planters in the parking lots to recycle glass as ground covers and it has created not only a mess but a problem here because bare feet and flip flops are very common (more so than shoes)
We used to collect "Lake Glass" on the beaches around Erie and Superior as well. Though there is not nearly as much as there seems to be in California. I've seen low water pools near Pictured Rocks that look like the ground is covered in gemstones.
Thanks for sharing the experience!
You go to some cool places ! Never heard of these beaches before....Thank you for taking us along on all your journeys ! Love your videos ! Keep doing what your doing ! Safe Travels always !✌ + ❤
I'm kind of pleased and surprised at the lack of modern trash and graffiti
Graffiti can be nice
Street art... not tags
I like your kitty hawk shirt. My family has a beach house nearby there in Nags Head, NC.
I live about 30 miles from this beach. I would always go to it growing up. About 10 years ago, there was easily 3-5x that amount of glass. Kids and adults alike love to collect it haha.
It looks so beautiful. Great story. It's crazy to think we dumped garbage there
Glass Beach is my favorite place on earth. I love finding the bright blue ones.
So, YOU'RE the one who's been taking all the nice stuff!
@@Automedon2 It's trash, needs to be cleaned.
I couldn’t believe my eyes! That beach is amazing! (Though not so exciting sea glass hunting when you can just pick up fistfuls! )
Probably a pretty good place to find the rarer sea glass colors. I have a hard time finding orange and UV glass
@@suelancaster6959 Seaham, UK! I've found nine pieces of UV there and three orange.
Hey Chris! Love this vid. Looking forward to more. J
Beautiful.. thanks for sharing this. I used to dig along the railroad tracks coming out of San Francisco. They threw out garbage there as well!
i was just trying to look up the band glass beach but this is cool too
Wow. The amount of glass dumped there must have been staggering
a time before cheap plastic
Really like your videos, Chris. You have such a nice, calm way of explaining thing.
SIGHHHHHH......My bucket list just keeps getting bigger because of your videos!!! LOL!
Wow that is so interesting. As a kid I used to walk the beach with my mom and she would treasure the smooth beach glass. I’m sure someday she’d love to see a beach made entirely of glass smoothed down by wind and tide. Amazing!
I just hope that all the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers.
Lmao.
My wife and I go to the shores of Lake Erie and we gather beach glass that is from shipwrecks! There’s not that much but if you know the right places you can find great pieces! Awesome video!
That's amazing; I've been to Fort Bragg, but never knew about this - probably 20-yrs ago. I love finding Sea Glass, but down here in Tassie, I rarely find any on the beaches - perhaps because they didn't dump much in the seas around here as they did in California - and it is an interesting point about the evil coming back as something lovely - although we won't be able to say the same for plastic. Very enjoyable - be interested to see the Pacific Coast HWY since they've replaced some of the washed-out bridges. I actually drove from King City, thru' Fort Legit down the Nacimiento-Fergusson Rd. to Big Sur; if you're still in the area or are in CA, and have time on your hands, a full tank of gas and cameras, well worth the drive - never know what you might see there! Thanks for sharing. 👍🐾😎💎
Imagine dropping a diamond in there
In greece beaches are full of glass too. The broken bottle one.
wow! when i was little we used to collect those with my mom💞
Another great video! These beaches are really cool, glad you got to see them! Man I would love to go on one of your adventures, very cool what you do!
Amazing to see how the glass has evolved from trash. I wonder how the wildlife has adapted to such a large area of debris. Thanks for sharing..very interesting!
For all the local wildlife cares, it's no different from quartz rock and sand. Just more interesting colors.
Wow the sand/silicone material that glass is made from has come full circle, back to being sand on the beach!! This is the kind of thing I adore seeing in my YT feed 😀👍💛
If I had stumbled onto this beach by accident there, I'd've been stunned, standing with tears streaming down my face in amazement 😊
(I wrote a poem in 8th grade (1976) about finding love with a harmonious kindred soul being like broken colored glass melted together underfoot :)
Btw purple is an almost impossible color pigment in glass. Reds are also expensive & unusual. Purple is what they call a "fugitive color" in glass, bc light (esp strong sunlight) quickly causes purple pigment in glass to turn clear. If you do find purple looking glass, it's often a faded, muddy color. That's why we don't see much of it, people often don't bother making it much, purple glass items can be expensive, and if you expose it to sunlight it soon won't be purple.
For red glass to be a really red instead of a violet red, it must have actual gold melted into the glass. Many retail items of colored glass are actually clear with a thin coating of plastic or other pigment on the surface.
If you're interested in studying or collecting valuable glass with gold in it, study milk glass & ruby glass.
If glass stays out in the sun for enough years, it can get a rainbow finish over time from just being left outside. I found mason jars like that on a friend's property after her aunt died. The aunt had left jars out broken & whole in the yard behind her cabin since the Great Depression, and the broken pieces in the sandy clay dirt were rainbow colored. Also "vitrail" glass with natural rainbow finish is found on the streets of Rome, from ancient times, & is often made into jewelry.
I've had several jobs working with & selling glass & crystal items, both old & modern. Glass & its colors & history of manufacture around the world & throughout history from ancient to modern times is an endlessly interesting topic 😀
A very interesting and enlightening comment. Thank you for sharing
Really enjoyed seeing that. Never heard of those beaches. Thanks for sharing. :D
One of my favorite places to visit. Some fun restaurants in this town as well.
the smoothing of the glass bits razor sharp edges takes a long time. at some point this was a nightmare death beach.
I’ll start contributing by throwing a case of beers down there every week.
Daniel Dionne as long as it’s just glass right?
It must sparkle on a sunny day. Beautiful
one of my favorites,thanks for sharing
I've been to the small beach you did not show. It is incredible to touch, sit in, walk on and look at. I never tasted it so not sure if it tastes good. hahaha
aww i was really looking forward to knowing if it tasted good... guess I'll never know.
How do you pull off all these trips? Sea Glass Beach. Awesome.
My grandma used to take me to glass beach all the time it’s beautiful! But they ended up cleaning up so much of the beach where now there are only certain areas that have a lot of glass like that.
Dude you must be the smartest person alive with all the research you've done..lol. Love the videos. Always entertaining and fun.
You should get a bunch of that glass makes it with epoxy and you can make cups or a table that was really cool
In Hawaii beaches there's signage for "No Taking Rocks," these beautiful beaches need those signs.
Pixy Rose Jes
So unbelievable that people still scavenge either of the three beaches. 🤦🏽♂️
Especially since the town won’t replenish what’s already been stolen.
This is why Stonehenge had to be fenced off. I hope that doesn’t eventually happen to this beach.
It's trash. It needs scavenged. Any dumb ass excuse
to fuck up the ecosystem.
There are signs. They also took down the stairs that lead to the big beach.
Diamonds in their natural state!
4:15 theres a clear glass thing on top of that black rock to the right of ur hand that looks like a heart❤️❤️
I live close to Seattle and our beaches on the Puget Sound are covered in hypodermic needles and orange caps.
Watch your step.
StrangerOf The206 In Missouri our beaches are covered in Meth
@@jordanweltha7196 there's beaches in Missouri??
Lol no, but Missouri used to be the nations Meth capital
So true
Woah, exciting site - I like how it blended well with nature somehow in the end although must be horrendous at first...judging by the fact it was dumpster!
Beautiful place, Thank you, Chris.
Wow bro, who would have known, if it wasn't for you no one on the east coast would know about glass beach.. Thanks for another great episode.
Growing up they were known as "Cape May Diamonds" (NJ)
This is what Cape May Diamonds are made of😯
The big chunk of blue is probably only from the early 2000s it was all the rage for gardens then
Hypnotic brand alcohol bottles are that color blue glass
Jason. Madara I looked it up it’s the same colour your right but it looks frosted plus the piece looks to thick to be from a bottle
In Fort Bragg some people were "re-seding" the beaches...that's the big piece you found.
This is why I subscribe. You find the most interesting places. Thanks for sharing. Safe travels.
Thanks!
That is so cool , love the beach glass ...
People take these home as “souvenirs”...But hey, who dumped them in the first place?
People
eric jung well I guess one man’s trash is another man’s treasure
Nature turned dirt left by humanity into treasure
@@srm4196 worthless junk.
Do you see the heart glass on 4:01 ?
Found it, it's on top of the big dark grey one near the middle
Amazingly my eyes went straight to it 😍
Here on the East coast of Canada, we called that sea glass and it's very popular here for exactly what you said, jewelry and all kinds of beautiful crafts. The blue and red, (red is said to have come from tail lights of cars that have found it's way into the water), are very hard to find here. Some of the glass has also come from shipwrecks. Pottery, different dishes.
👍 very cool. I love the great places you go. Never heard of this place it looks wonderful
Illegal to take glass from the beach, that is insane. Nothing wrong with the weathered glass being there though.
Only in america people can litter but then not clean it up or take from it. Its the new thing now. Same on east coast here. U cant take trash from any where for any reason at all
Jason. Madara
No??? There’s a difference between that weathered glass and the trash. Trash, just throw it away.
Jewelery sets
Not illegal to take it thats an old rumor. I know for a fact!
It’s actually not illegal or else I would have gotten in trouble a thousand times lol
It's like that one band
they should name an album after this place
@@robbie69xd would it be the first one?
@@Birch663 call me crazy but they should name one of their songs like that as well
Back when I lived in Kodiak, AK, there were several beaches you could scour for pieces of glass or even entire glass balls from fishing nets!
Went to this exact spot on this beach with my dad when I was very young, it feels so weird seeing it all again but in a CZcams video. Also crazier to think this random person is walking in the same location as me and that this video has 500k views.
we used that glass to practice gem cutting. older glass was tinted with trace minerals. red glass was made with gold. blue had cobalt.
You can just toss some broken bottle fragments into a Rock Polisher and get stones like this.
Nice job on the video! Not too long or wordy, well delivered.
I have been to that beach before as a kid, it was such a pretty place to visit.
From sand to sand will turn...
As always, the best non-hyped exploration videos out there! Shared on 5 platforms. Enjoy some new viewers. :>
That is really cool and quite beautiful!
Love your videos ! You have taken me along to many places I would not have been able to go on my own. Thanks 😀
except it would be a lot better to go to those places your self instead of virtually.