Article Index
Below are links to articles that have appeared in past issues of Beachcombing and beachcomber videos. Learn more about beachcombing, beach travel, coastal arts, and coastal living, plus fabulous finds from shorelines around the world.
Beachcombing Destinations
East Coast of the U.S.
- Boston: A Sight to Behold: Boston Harbor’s Spectacle Island
- Cape May, New Jersey
- Cape May: The Search for Cape May Diamonds
- Chesapeake Bay Treasures
- Chincoteague and Assateague: Wild Horses of the Eastern Shore
- Long Beach Island, New Jersey
- Maine: Sea Glass Dreams Really Do Come True
- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- New Hampshire: Long Weekend on the Shortest Coastline
- Sea Glass Weekend Retreat
Great Lakes
- Beachcombing on Lake Superior (video)
- The Giant Blue Pickle
- Lake Erie’s Glass Giant
- Lake Michigan: Beachcombing on the Ancient Sea Floor
- Leland Blue Stones: Happy Having the Blues
- Michigan: Thumbs Up to Lexington
- Presque Isle State Park: Erie, Pennsylvania
- The Shipwrecks of Lake Erie
West Coast of the U.S.
- California Beach Finder App
- Davenport, California
- The Ghost Forest
- Lincoln City, Oregon: Finders Keepers
- Nome Alaska: Beachcoming Bucket List
- Olympic Peninsula Odyssey, Washington
- Port Townsend, Washington
- San Francisco: A Night on the Bay
- San Juan Islands, Washington: My Love Story
- Santa Barbara, California
- Santa Cruz, California
- Pacific Road Trip (video)
- What's the deal with Glass Beach?
Gulf Coast
- Galveston Island, Texas
- Galveston, Texas: The Combing Report
- Sanibel, Florida: So much to shellebrate on Sanibel
Hawaii
Caribbean
- Best Friends’ Trip to Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Puerto Rico
- St. Croix, USVI: St. Croix’s Chaney
- West Indies: Treasure Trove of Black Glass
Canada
Europe
- Blackrock, County Louth, Ireland
- Extreme Beachcombing at Shippersea Bay (video)
- In the Footsteps of Mudlarks: London, England
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Italy: Vetri Di Mare
- Mudlarking We Will Go
- Scottish Sea Pottery (video)
- Bucket List Destination: Seaham, England
- Seaham Sea Glass (video)
- Seaham, England
- Wading for Treasures (video)
- Weekend in Half Moon Bay, Lancashire
- Weekend in the Western Isles
- Welcome to the Jurassic Coast
Asia
- Japanese Sea Glass - Christina Sawka (video)
- Russian Sea Glass Beach
- Vladivostok's Sea Glass Beach
Oceania
Worldwide
- 10 Best Glassing Beaches
- 10 Best Shelling Beaches
- Distinctive International Beach Finds (video)
- Haunted Lighthouses
- How to plan the perfect beachcombing vacation
- Planning a Beachcombing Getaway
- Shipwrecks You Can Visit
- Lighthouse B&Bs: They’ll leave the light on for you
Beach Arts, Crafts, Gifts, and Décor
- 6 Ways to Use Sea Glass
- Beach Art Mosaic Workshop (video)
- Beach Craft: Drilling Sea Glass
- Beach Craft: Framed Beach Finds
- Beach Craft: Sea Glass Bowl
- Beach Craft: Sea Glass Bottle Lamp
- Beach Find Succulent Container Garden How-To Craft
- Beach Finds and Barn Wood Shelf Craft How To Tutorial
- Beach Finds Watering Can Wind Chime (video)
- The Beach Glass-ed Bathroom
- Beach Glass Quilt
- Breezy Blue House
- Eco Artists: Creating Art from Marine Debris
- Endless Summer: Beach Decor for the Holidays
- How to make a sea shell tree
- How to bezel set sea glass
- How to Decorate with your Beach Finds (video)
- Make a Flowerpot Lighthouse Tutorial
- Making Framed Art Using Epoxy
- Making Framed Beach Art (video)
- The Mermaid Apothecary
- Products We Love: Beachcombing and Beach Decor Books
- Products We Love: Coastal Decor
- Products We Love: Kitchen, Bed, and Bath
- Products We Love: Out & About
- Sea Glass Gem in the Jewel Box
- The Sea Glass Home: In Perfect Color
- Sea Glass Mosaic Sailboat
- The Sea Glass Necklace: 6 Different Ways
- Sea Glass Switch Plate Cover Craft How To
- Sea Glass Wire Wrap Tutorial
- Sharing the Aloha Spirit: Sea Glass Jewelry Making (video)
- Show Off Your Beach Bling (video)
- Storming the Beaches
- Under the Sea Kitchen Design
Out & About
- 18 signs you’re obsessed with beachcombing
- Beachcombing Etiquette
- Beach-Found Game Pieces
- The Beach Library
- Beach Love: Heart-Shaped Beach Finds (video)
- Beach Safety for Your Dog
- Beach Self Defense
- Best Beachcombing Gear
- Birth Glass, Seeding the Beaches
- Gear for the Winter Beach
- Goddess of the Hunt
- Healing Gifts from the Sea
- How much is enough?
- I Want to Age Like Sea Glass
- The Lady of the Sea
- Letters from the Sea
- Love Floats
- The Mermaid Apothecary
- Not Your Typical Gear
- Beachcombing Ocean Safety (video)
- Privy to History
- Reader Survey: Do you sit and dig or stroll and pick?
- Reader Survey: What's on your beachcombing bucket list?
- The Science Behind “The Beach is My Happy Place”
- The Sea Glass Collectors' Creed
- A Sea Glass Journey
- Sea Glasspassing
- Sea Glass Dreams Really Do Come True
- The Sea Glass Mermaid
- Sea Glass Showstoppers
- Sea Glass Swap
- Shards
- Sharing Sea Glass for Good
- A Sisterly sea Glass Adventure
- A Sister’s Love
- They just kept coming…
- The Thrill of the Hunt
- The Thrill of the Winter Hunt
- Top 13 Items to Bring When Beachcombing
- Metal Detecting: Treasures in the Sands
- The Underwater Museum
- What is it?
- What Lies Beneath: Underwater Beachcombing
- Who Owns the Coastline?
- Window to Our Past
Community
- After the Storm: Mermaid Fiction Contest First Place Winner
- And her dance floor paved with ducats: Mermaid Fiction Contest Third Place Winner
- Author Interview: Silke Stein
- Baubles and Bottles: Beachcombing for Kids, by a Kid
- Beach Clean Teens: Planning a Beach Cleanup
- Beach Glass Bill
- Beachcomber Interview: Alan Rammer
- Beachcomber Interview: Fiona Dart
- Beachcomber Interview: Heather Ganis
- Beachcomber Interview: Leilani Yee
- Beachcomber Interview: Mandy Peel
- Beachcomber Interview: Maren Lohmeyer
- Beachcomber Interview: Matthew Umbro
- Beachcomber Interview: Natalie Brooke
- Beachcomber Interview: Nicola McFarlane Young
- Beachcomber Interview: Nicole Lind
- Beachcomber Interview: The Shell Gang
- Beachcomber Interview: Terri Ryan
- Beachcombing Connections
- A Birder Discovers Glassing
- The Bride Wore a Mermaid Tail
- Confessions of a Shellaholic
- A Day at the Beach; A Year at the Beach
- Dear Crabby: Advice from the Beach
- Dear Crabby: More Advice from the Beach
- Dear Crabby: Even More Advice from the Beach
- Find Your Peace
- First Northern German Collectors’ Meeting
- Lake Michigan Sea Glass Collectors
- Spotlight Artisan: Arlene Nebbia
- Spotlight Artisan: Elizabeth Roberts
- Spotlight Artisan: Jennifer Reed
- Spotlight Artisan: Kelly Abrams
- Spotlight Artisan: Kenneth Blaine
- Spotlight Artisan: Marylou Powers
- Spotlight Artisan: The Mermaid’s Box - Machel Spence
- Spotlight Artist: Sharon Clarke Haugli
- Spotlight Artisan: Signe Lawson
- Treasures in the English Chalk Streams
Beachcombing Festivals
- 9 Tips for Beach Festivals
- Ashtabula Harbor Beach Glass Festival
- The California Mermaid Convention
- Cayucos Sea Glass Festival
- Chesapeake Sea Glass Festival
- Driftwood and Sand
- The Eastern Shore Sea Glass and Coastal Arts Festival
- The First Sea Glass Festival
- Great Lakes Beach Glass Festival: Greatest Show on the Lakes
- Insider Tips for Festival Vendors
- Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
- Mermaid Tears Sea Glass Festival
- Mid-Atlantic Sea Glass and Coastal Arts Festival
- North American Sea Glass Festival
- The Northeast Sea Glass Expo—Cape Cod
- The Northeast Sea Glass Expo—New Hampshire
- Santa Barbara: Queen of the Festivals
- Santa Cruz Sea Glass and Ocean Art Festival
- You be the judge: The inside scoop on sea glass contests
History and Science
- Ah, Those English Multis
- All About Ceramics
- The Birthplace of the American Glass Industry
- Blue Willow History and Lore
- The Chambered Nautilus
- The Chemistry of Colored Glass
- Clay Pipe Making: The Victorian Way
- The Codd Neck Bottle
- The Domino Effect
- Dragon Glass
- Egg-citing Finds: Whelk Egg Casings
- Fascinating Cantonware
- Fire-King Glass on the Shores of Rhodes
- Fishing for Codd in the River: Codd bottles and Codd Marbles
- Flotsam and Jetsam
- For the Love of German Sea Marbles
- Full of Beans: Sea Bean Collector Mike Ley
- Getting to the Bottom of It: Shard Identification of Bottle Bottoms
- The Glass Floats
- The Glass Menagerie
- Glassing Sleuth
- Historical Bottle Lip Shapes
- The History of Cairns
- The History of Coral Jewelry
- Identifying your beach marbles (video)
- The Journey of Bonfire Glass
- The Lasting Beauty of Vintage Sand Pails
- Losing their marbles? The facts about beach marbles.
- The Lost Colony (Found?)
- Mermaid Tales Throughout History
- Mermaid Tears & Other Salty Names
- Milk Glass: No Use Crying Over Spilled Milk
- Mudlarking: Ancient Sacred River
- Mudlarking: The Art of Smoking
- Mudlarking: Bellarmine Jugs and Witch Bottles
- Mudlarking: Colored Glass & Georgian Bling
- Mudlarking: Colorful Glass Beads
- Mudlarking: Finding Londinium
- Mudlarking: Giving New Life to Historic Glass
- Mudlarking: Iron Age to Tudor Jewelry
- Mudlarking: Lost and Found Toys
- Mudlarking: Lost for Words
- Mudlarking: Lost Jewelry from the 17th through 20th Centuries
- Mudlarking: Modern Sacred River
- Mudlarking: The Mystery of the Thames Garnets
- Mudlarking: Pirates of the River Thames
- Mudlarking: Searching for Evidence of the Mayflower
- Mudlarking: Seal the Deal
- Mudlarking: Trade Tokens
- The Mystery of Sea Glass Strength
- Name Your Poison
- Neodymium Sea Glass
- The (Not So) Fantastic Voyage
- The Origins of Murano Glass
- Railroad Marbles: Lake Michigan's Hidden Gems
- A Rainbow of Bottle Colors: Historical Bottles
- Red Glass: Why is it so special? And, why does it fascinate us?
- Schlitz Royal Ruby Red
- Sea Glass Identification (video)
- Sea Glass Pastels
- Sea Marbles: Holy Grail of the Beach
- Sherd or Shard?
- Spode China & the Titanic
- Sprite Delight
- Star-Crossed Lovers: The Blue Willow Love Story
- Sunken Pirate City: The Port Royal Earthquake of 1692
- The Tale of Frozen Charlotte
- Tales of Whiskey and Ulysses S. Grant
- Through the Looking Glass: Maritime Glass as Sea Glass
- True Daffy’s Elixir
- Ultraviolet Sea Glass
- Using Bottle Maker Marks to Identify Your Sea Glass
- Unsuitable!
- The Very First Beachcombers
- Wampum
- What happened to Hoosier Slide?
Nature
- Ambergris: Floating Gold
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Great Lakes Geology
- Bubble Shells
- The Book of Pebbles
- Changing Tides: Dude, Where's My Beach?
- Driftwood: Swimming Trunks
- Fossilized Urchins
- Fulgurite: Beach Lightning
- The Ghost Forest
- Going with the Flow: How Tides Work
- Hidden Beauty: Petoskey Stones
- Hidden Beauty: Quahog Shells
- Horseshoe Crabs: Over the Moon
- How to Identify Live Sand Dollars
- Is That Scallop Shell Broken?
- A Jaw-Some Collection: Shark Tooth Fossils
- Lucky Stones
- The Phenomenon of the Seiche
- Puddingstones
- The Red Abalone
- Sandstorm: A Collection of Sands From Around the World
- Saving the Shoreline with Star Sand
- The Seahorse
- Shark Eyes: The Cannibalistic Mollusk
- Shoreline Erosion
- The Starfish (Is Not a Fish)
- Stone Crabs of Satellite Beach, Florida
- Top 10 Sanibel Sea Shells
- Introducing: Yooperlite
- The World’s Most Expensive Seashell
Conservation
- Beachcombing and Ocean Conservation
- The Big 4: Say No to Plastics
- Like Diamonds, Plastic is Forever
- Ocean Conservation How Can You Help?
- Plastic Buildup in Our Oceans
Resources and more
- Anatomy of a Bottle
- Beachcomber Tattoos
- Best Beachcombing Apps
- Best Beachcombing Books
- Beach Reads by Cindy Bilbao
- A Brief History of Glass Stoppers
- A Buying Guide for the Sea Glass Jewelry Consumer
- Carter Sea Glass Color and Rarity Guide
- Children's Beach Books
- Dear Crabby: Advice from the Beach
- Genuine vs. Fake Sea Glass
- Glassification
- Multicolored Sea Glass and Hartley Wood and Company
- Picture Perfect: Photo Submission Tips
- Pocket Guide to Seaham Sea Glass
- The Rarity Chart – Dissected
- Sea Glass Colors
- Sea Glass Lingo
- Test Your Beachcombing Knowledge
- Tips for Finding a Sea Glass Marble
- Tips for the Sea Glass Artist Studio
- Too Good to Be True: Identifying Fake Sea Glass
- What's Your Beach Personality?
- Why So Many Sea Glass Greens?
Beachcombing Videos
Virtual Beachcombing Festival Speakers
- Seaham Sea Glass - Paula Newman
- Scottish Sea Pottery - Nicole Lind
- Jewelry Found in the Thames - Jason Sandy
- Making Framed Beach Art - Kristin Batista and Virginia Whitted
- Sea Glass Identification - Richard Lamotte
- Distinctive International Beach Finds - Mary McCarthy
- Pacific Road Trip - Mary Beth Beuke
- Beachcombing Ocean Safety - JJ and Pat Caldwell
- Japanese Sea Glass - Christina Sawka
- Beach Art Mosaic Workshop - Mary McCarthy
Beachcombing Club Speakers
- Wading for Treasures - Jane Eastman
- Sharing the Aloha Spirit: Sea Glass Jewelry Making - Marylou Forrest
- Identifying your beach marbles - Stephen Bahr
- Beach Finds Watering Can Wind Chime - Lori Julian and Mary T. McCarthy
Beachcombing Magazine Videos
- Extreme Beachcombing at Shippersea Bay
- Identifying Fake Sea Glass - 5 tips to spot fake beach glass
- Fun and Games - Toys, dominos, dice, marbles, and more
- Prehistory on the Beach - Beach Fossils
- Show off your Beach Bling - Display ideas from beachcombers around the world
- Beachcombrrr - Winter at the beach
Virtual Beachcombing Festival Collector Videos
- Floats of the Pacific - Tina Terry
- Antique Caribbean Sea Glass - Wiesy Lauffer
- Colors of Asli - Beachcombing paintings by Asli Ersahin
- Macro and Micro Views of the Beach - Splendid Sands
- Japanese Beachcombing - Tina Terry
- Bottles and Bits - Danielle Perrault
- Florida Seashells and Art - Amanda Collet
- Beachcombing on Lake Superior - Ann Primozich
- Tasmanian Sea Glass Stoppers - Fiona Dart
- Tiny Seashell Museum on the Sea of Cortez - Naomi Black
- Florida Seashells - Jaime Sawczyn
- How to Decorate with your Beach Finds - Christina Sawka
- Great Lakes Glowers - Tarah Hoffmann
- Beach Glass Beads - Mary T. McCarthy
Sea and Beach Glass Colors
- Red Sea Glass
- Blue Sea Glass
- Kelly Green Sea Glass
- Lime Green Sea Glass
- Teal Sea Glass
- Aqua Sea Glass
- Sea Foam Sea Glass
- Purple and Lavender Sea Glass
- Honey Amber Sea Glass
- Orange Sea Glass
- Pink Sea Glass
- Gray Sea Glass
- Black Sea Glass
- UV Sea Glass
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