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Welcome to our first monthly issue of "Notes from the High Tide Line" Newsletter.
This shop dog is Jesse.
Here is one of Jesse's favorite shop activities.
She shows off the speed with which she can empty a box of bisquits when momentarily left alone in the shop.
No need to scold that pathetic face. Definitely a low tail wag moment.
At least this time, the box was not stuck on her head!
Upcoming Event for all beachcombers:
Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer and author of "Flostsamerics and the Floating World" and "The Undiscovered Ocean: The Sea Surface Hidden in Plain View", is coming to Orcas Island.
I started getting his great "Beachcomber's Alert" Newsletter in 1994. Check it out at http://beachcombersalert.org
His stories of items coming ashore on our coast that were originally on container ships in the Phillipines are very engaging. Remember the Nike shoes free for all from Oregon to Alaska? He has used these incidents, with the help of beachcombers, to produce ground breaking study of ocean currents.
Mark the date: May 23rd, 2:00pm. Orcas Center
Tickets available at Darvill's Book Store $10.
360 376 2135.
So, in this our debut "Messages Found in Bottles" newsletter, we share our love of all things "beach glass". One activity, Northwest beachcombersdon't get to do as much this time of year.
Sharing beach glass and beachcombing finds will be updated monthly on www.gonebeachy.com.
So email your finds to lifeisgood@rockisland, and they will be posted.
My best find to date is a piece of red beach glass found in Del Ma, Ca. at least 25 years ago. It is unusual to find red beach glass, but this piece also has round "bumps" on it. When I started carrying the book, "Pure Sea Glass", in my shop, Wood's Cove, I was hoping to find this piece in this great book. I was not able to ID the piece until the authors of the book came out with a box of "flash cards" intended to be tossed in the day pack for those beachcombing days.
It was featured on one of those cards. Here's the fun:
Real gold is needed to make the color red in glass. Hence, the rarity of this color. Red is contagorized as XR, extemely rare, meaning the finding ratio is 1 in 5,000. Only orange beach glass is more rare.
As reads the card, by the late 1930's Anchor Hocking was producing tableware in a dark Royal Ruby color. As you can see in the photo, my chunk of red glass on top and a picture of the flash card under it showing the detail in the red plate.
It's a match.
More information on this red glass and all types of beach glass will be available on the link Beach Glass on www.gonebeachy.com.
You will also be able to send your photos and your stories of your beach glass and other beachcombing finds to be featured on that link in the near future. Bookmark and come back often.
See you soon.
Ginny Lu Wood
www.gonebeachy.com
www.woodscove.com
Sending prayers to Haiti.
Peace
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