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?