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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 glass
Nails and fittingsAlso 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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