First of all, we don’t live where the ocean currents wash treasures such as Japanese fishing floats up on shore. Only certain parts of the planet are a beachcomber’s paradise for floats, sea glass and other riches.
But with our beach-centric lifestyle it doesn’t mean that we don’t want what the deep blue sea discards. These Japanese glass fishing floats are the real deal, gathered after storms by Paul Umlauf in Alaska.
Use them in the garden piled high in a trough planted with succulents or inside as table top accents.
Find them at www.alaskaglassfloats.com. And tell Paul I said hi.
Click comments and share your strangest beach find.
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After an El Nino storm in 1995/96 , I found a timex watch with a broken watchband washed up on the beach Like the commerical claims “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.” I replaced the watch band and it’s still ticking today.
When we were teenagers body surfing in Newport Beach, by brother came across a swim fin. Cool, now he had help paddling out. Then about an hour later, he bumped into something underwater. The other fin! What are the odds of that happening?