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Sea Bright NJ

Sea Bright beach, post-Sandy sea glass

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea glassSea glass
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: white, blue, milky green.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Resort and fishing town hammered by storms since the 1800s; Sandy pulled old glass off the seabed onto the beach.

AP via WeatherWatch, Sep 2013: collector Christeena Hockin-Minopetros filled two bags with sea glass at Sea Bright the summer after Sandy; USGS geologist Cheryl Hapke called it an epic summer for beach glassView source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Beach replenishment buries material
surf and jetty rocks

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