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East, Delaware
Broadkill Beach DE
Delaware Bay glass strand
Tidal foreshore Documented siteLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Sea glass
Old bottlesAlso reported: worn crockery bits, shells.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Quiet three-mile Delaware Bay strand near the Broadkill River mouth, fed sea glass by a century of bay shipping and shore-town dumping
Named among Delaware's best sea glass beaches in state travel press; individual finds are hobbyist reports rather than logged accounts
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Greenhead flies in summerSpawning horseshoe crabs in May-June, soft sand driving
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