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Wednesday 15 July 2015
Another Treasure of Aruba’s Beaches: Sea Glass!
ARASHI - It is hard to imag- es of sea glass. Once glass makes its way ances and even motor beer), green (Heineken
ine this happening today, The sea glass that was cre- into the ocean, the glass is parts were discarded on & Balashi beer) and clear
but years ago people ated is the product of a broken up into shards and is the beach. The waves and glass which are the soft
dumped all kinds of refuse very long and interesting tumbled around in the wa- weather conditions wore much loved “soft drink”
straight into the ocean, in- process. ter, where sand and other down the overwhelming bottles. If you like to see the
cluding old cars, and their sea glass for yourself, and
household garbage, which It can take anywhere from rocks act like sandpaper to amount of gar- be in awe of the power of
of course included lots of 10 to 30 years to make sea smooth out its rough edges. bage in the wa- nature, rent a car or jeep
glass. glass. Sometimes as the sea glass ter, creating mil- and go explore our desert-
Over the next 30 years the The name for any piece is passed through fire, it be- lions of beautiful ed beaches on the north
pounding waves cleaned of glass that finds its way comes fire glass, the rarest smooth rocks. side of the island. Make it a
the beach, by breaking to the ocean and tumbles of sea glass with certain fun family day!
down everything but glass around in the water long inclusions, just like precious It’s hard to be- Even if we didn’t mean to
and pottery. enough is “Sea glass. gems. lieve the short- pollute the Beaches how
The pounding waves The colorful pieces of glass For years, the water beat sighted mistakes we did, it is inspiring to see
washed the trash up and are being used for decora- against the different kinds we were making just how the earth can cor-
down, back and forth. tion, handcrafts and jew- of trash being dumped. that could have rect our mistakes.
Tons of polished, broken elry! Glass, household appli- potentially ruined Funny, how trash can
glass pieces were created these beauti- change into treasures!
by the pounding surf. ful beaches. But Everybody knows that you
These smoothened, col- thanks to natu- are not allowed to take
ored glass particles then ral processes, local shells home, but the
settled along the sea shore the ocean trans- people working at the air-
in millions, and that is why formed the trash port have no problem you
you can find these beauti- into the sea glass. taking sea glass home. A
ful and colorful pieces on Each colored gem on the few of those pieces make
the north shore beaches beach has its own story. great souvenirs. You can
of Aruba. Especially on The ruby red glass stones place them in a wine glass
the strip on white sand be- are typically from old car or large bottle for decora-
tween the famous Natural tail-lights. tion and every time you
Bridge” and the huge red Then, the sapphire rocks look at it a smile will light up
anchor close to “Grape- are the remnants of bro- your face thinking back of
field” beach you will be ken apothecary bottles. your unforgettable Aruba
able to find your own piec- The most common and vacation!q
the easiest to find are the
brown (Amstel & Polar
