Central Florida Driftwood

[Pitoon]

TBH, there's not that much seaglass around like there used to be. In St. Martin I was on a beach and could have filled a gallon sack in an hour. It was crazy and beautiful.

Also, at some old school very tacky shell shops on the side of the road in Florida beach towns...Some of those shell shops have old driftwood for sale. We have a place in St. Augustine and there's a truck that drives down the beach most mornings and a guy throws driftwood into his truck after the tides been out, usually after a big storm. I never understood what he did with it but people do all kinds of things....Building furniture with it is popular and selling it to the tacky shell shops is another...

30yrs ago there was plenty. But with the crafting boom it's probably been picked dry.

 

[hinmo24t]

Where do you find seaglass in Florida?

I have collected it in buzzards bay, horseneck Beach and little compton Rhode Island. I have been visiting Florida for a while. Clearwater. Key west

 

[Katie0317]

30yrs ago there was plenty. But with the crafting boom it's probably been picked dry.

It's mostly been picked dry but I think something else is happening to our oceans, gulfs and bays. When I was a kid on he gulf coast of Florida there were seashells everywhere. Now...Almost none. As for sea glass people may not be tossing colored glass overboard and most glass now is brown, clear and green. Few things are made using cobalt colored glass anymore. I remember when I wouldn't bother to stoop for a brown piece of sea glass.

Have no idea why there was so incredibly much in St. Martin and not that long ago. Lots of cruise ships but they're all over the Bahamas too and I don't find it there much.

 

[atlarsenal]

Funny seeing this thread pop back up. I just made this base a couple of days ago for a piece I have had for a couple of years.