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California
Davenport CA
Davenport Beach, art glass studio tailings
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Opal
Gold
Sea glassAlso reported: Multicolor Davenport art glass, agates.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dpulitzer (CC BY-SA 4.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain), Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
Lundberg Studios (founded 1970) sat above San Vicente Creek; a flood carried bins of discarded art glass trimmings into the sea, giving multicolored patterned sea glass.
Beachcombing Magazine, Jul 2017: describes the Lundberg flood origin, the 'pit' where glass washes in at high tide, wetsuit hunters, and softball-size 'boulders'View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Extreme: full wetsuitsNo dry sand at the pit, hunters are thrown onto rocks, broken limbs reported
steep loose shale descent
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