Oct 152008
On a West Cork beach this Summer (during a brief respite in the soggy summer weather) I spotted this tiny piece of lustrous green glass worn perfectly smooth by the sea.
I couldn’t resist getting down on hands and knees and taking this snap – I love the juxtaposition of the manmade glass and the natural gravel. To give you a sense of scale the piece of glass is only about four or five millimetres across.
If you click to enlarge the image you’ll see what I think are salt crystals on the surface of the glass.
Really beautiful. You can see this kind of rounded green glass beams all over the Mediterranean also, from Alicante to Cypruss, some gems between the stones and the shells
Thanks Dictina,
I love the contrast between the green glass and the deep grey of the shingle. Guess in a way it’s a shame that glass waste ends up in the ocean at all, but these little “gems”, as you say, are can be really beautiful.
C!