{"id":23220,"date":"2015-07-06T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T19:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=23220"},"modified":"2018-02-26T17:57:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T22:57:46","slug":"sea-glass-beach-finds-while-beach-combing-okinawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/06\/sea-glass-beach-finds-while-beach-combing-okinawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Glass Beach Finds While Beach Combing Okinawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Colors<\/a><\/p>\n

Goodie Goodie SEA GLASS gumdrops! This is what the BEACH GLASS\u00a0looks like tucked in every nook and cranny of sand, coral and rock of Okinawa, Japan. Beautiful, sugary chunks of eye candy.<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/a><\/p>\n

Each and every SEA GLASS fragment is razzle dazzle frosted\u00a0seaglass-el .<\/p>\n

\"Stack<\/a><\/p>\n

On our vacation from Sanibel Island, Florida to Okinawa, Japan<\/strong><\/a>… \u00a0we were not disappointed one moment on our beach combing adventure looking for different types of seashells and BEACH BLING. Each day we discovered something new.<\/p>\n

\"Seaglass<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t think I’ve been more excited about any beach find than when I found a SEA MARBLE in my favorite color in the world… aqua.<\/p>\n

(okay, maybe that’s stretching that- I actually cried when I found my JUNONIA in 2011<\/a><\/strong>–\u00a0<\/strong>but still)<\/p>\n

\"Happy<\/a>
\nLook at this Marble-ous gem!<\/p>\n

\"Aqua<\/a><\/p>\n

You think I was happy when I found this cool pitted CAT’S EYE SEA MARBLE too? lol<\/p>\n

\"Happy<\/a><\/p>\n

How do SEA MARBLES form? Most of the time they start out as a real marble or round glass ball. There are different theories to answer why they washed up on the beach and the first one is the most logical… kids playing with marbles on the beach years ago. But there are way too many rolling in around the world’s beaches for it just to be child’s play. Some SEA MARBLES are from a Japanese glass bottle called Remune that used a marble as a stopper so when the bottle was discarded, the marble ended up in the ocean. Cargo ships used to use marbles as an inexpensive way to redistribute weight to provide stability so I’m sure many times they were dumped overboard. Painters used to use marbles in paint cans to mix the paint so if you think about how much\u00a0“battle ship gray” paint was constantly used on all those ships, of course they’d end up losing their marbles.
\n\"Seaglass<\/a><\/p>\n

So we got a little carried away collecting just the shades of blues and greens but I couldn’t believe the different colors of turquoise, aqua, teal, soft blue, lime green, forest green, jade and even the clear glass was so beautiful. These were mostly fragments of old bottles but a few look like shards of old glass tableware, art glass or even insulators that have been tumbled in the salty ocean for decades to become sugary smooth.<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/a>
\nThese next pieces are from the bottom or base of glass bottles. I even found one rare pink piece of SEA GLASS!<\/p>\n

\"Pink<\/a><\/p>\n

These are fragments of old glass bottle lips.<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/a><\/p>\n

These curled SEA GLASS pieces are shards from the old bottle necks.<\/p>\n

\"Aqua<\/a><\/p>\n

I even found shards of flat SEA GLASS that was etched.. maybe from a privacy glass window etched by an artist.<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/a><\/p>\n

We found\u00a02 very cool pieces that have formed round balls that kick-up in the middle of the glass like a button. I had an idea what they were but couldn’t be sure until I found a sea glass gal on Instagram@beachbitchseaglass<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0who verified that they were big SEA GLASS hunks of JAPANESE GLASS FLOATS. Oh yaya- Thank you! That’s “Glasstounding” (heehee). Before we left for Japan, both Clark and I were hoping to find one of those Japanese GLASS FLOATS washed up on the beach. A float would\u00a0awesome BEACH BLING but finding these GLASS FLOAT chunks that have been broken, tumbled then smoothed by the sea for years and years… are very special to us. Of course I think mine (the bigger brighter one on the left) is cooler and Clark thinks his (the smaller darker one… that does have a way cool formed ball) is cooler. hahaha<\/p>\n

\"Japanese<\/a><\/p>\n

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If each piece of BEACH GLASS could talk, I’m sure the stories would be … wait for it… Glasstonishing. (hee hee)<\/p>\n

Any way you look at it, i Love Seaglass!<\/p>\n

\"i<\/a><\/p>\n

See the rest of the story, photos, seashell and more info on this trip here…<\/p>\n

Our Exshellent Beach Combing Adventure to Okinawa Japan<\/strong><\/span><\/a>–\u00a0http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/our-exshellent-beach-combing-adventure-in-okinawa-japan\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Indo Pacific Seashells Of Okinawa Japan<\/strong><\/a>\u2013\u00a0http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/indo-pacific-seashells-of-okinawa-japan\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Gone Extreme Beach Combing- Across the World<\/strong><\/span><\/a>–\u00a0http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/15\/gone-extreme-she\u2026across-the-world\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you want to know more about SEA GLASS, I also found lots of good info in Pure Sea Glass Identification Deck<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\"\".<\/p>\n

Join me on a Shelling Trip! For more info CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Goodie Goodie SEA GLASS gumdrops! This is what the BEACH GLASS\u00a0looks like tucked in every nook and cranny of sand, coral and rock of Okinawa, Japan. Beautiful, sugary chunks of eye candy. Each and every SEA GLASS fragment is razzle dazzle frosted\u00a0seaglass-el . On our vacation from Sanibel Island, Florida to Okinawa, Japan… \u00a0we were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1971,1973,1968,88,1972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-glass","category-japanese-glass-float-sea-glass","category-okinawa-japan-seashells","category-sea-glass","category-sea-marbles","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Colors-of-Sea-Glass-and-Sea-Marbles.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-62w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27529,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23220\/revisions\/27529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}