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Sea Glass Beach, Henoko coast

Old dump ground Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea glassSea glass
MarblesMarbles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: bonfire glass.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Postwar shoreline dump near Camp Schwab; bottles and crockery discarded for decades now tumble ashore as glass

Heavy sea glass and bonfire glass finds documented by multiple English-language visitor accounts

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Rough dirt access trackNo facilities, coral rubble underfoot, habu snakes in shore brush, strong sun

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