I'm on vacation with the girls in Kauai, our favorite Hawaiian Island. While exploring the island, we read about Glass Beach on the west coast of the island. Guide books mention the beach, but all say that it is under some ugly heavy industry installation. I decided to check it out since we're out west anyway.
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| Smoothed glass pebbles covering the beach. |
The beach is strangely mesmerizing. The moment you step on the beach, you notice that the sand is actually covered in coloful wave-smoothed sea glass. These glass pieces are from old bottles, flasks, and windows dumped here decades ago and are now broken up and smoothened by moving ocean water and time. Over the last few decades, the glass now resemble tiny multicolored jelly-bean like pebbles glistening under the sun. The most plentiful glass pieces are the brown and white glass. Green ones are less plentiful. More rare are the bright blue or red pieces. You can spend hours just looking at and examining the different colored glass pebbles.My favorite colored glass are the aqua colored ones. They are beautiful like real aquamarine gemstones
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| Everyone is beachcombing here for glass pieces. |
Kauai's Glass Beach is indeed located
in the middle of an industrial area near Port Allen Harbor in Ele'ele, a few miles south of Waimea. However, ugliness is in the eyes of the beholder. After driving miles and miles along pristine beaches, quaint little towns, meadows and awe-inspiring canyons, even the industrial gas and water tanks overlooking the beach look ethereal as if part of an alien landscape.
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| Tank overlooking Glass Beach |
Glass Beach is probably best for beachcombing only. You don't know what kind of junk is in the water next to the industrial structures.
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