Natural Glass beach, Costa da Morte, Spain
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I took these photos on a hike in 2014, along the "Costa da Morte" in northern Spain. The hike was mostly beautiful cliffs that cut right down to the sea and then up hundreds of meters again, crossing through boulder fields, beaches, and all sorts of vegetation.
But one of the coolest parts was the glass beach! When locals throw glass bottles into the ocean, the ocean currents act as a sort of underwater rock tumbler and polish the broken bits of glass. As they wash up on the shore, they come as polished little glass rocks. Instead of rock breaking down into sand we have a beach entirely made of glass bottles breaking down into polished rocks! Cool, right?
I took a few of these rocks home to keep in my kitchen and use as paper weights.
A closer look- all of the colors come from the type of glass used! The most common colors for wine bottles being white, green, brown, and sometimes blue.
It's cool to see something so beautiful created essentially on accident by nature.
Have any of you guys ever seen a glass beach?
I am always torn between the beauty of this "natural" beach covering and the fact that people littered (sometimes on purpose) to create it. I do love ocean-turned glass though - it is truly beautiful and I love that you shared this one with us.
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Hi @ewefirst ! I love sea glass. (That's what we called it when I was a kid in California) It was a rare find. It's a shame the ocean can't do that to plastic.
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There are many formations both in Portugal and Spain with eerie names like that. The Devil's Pit, the Lake of Hell... you name it. These names are not random. The places are so dangerous that many people lost their lives there...
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