The northern Californian coast worries by Breykers, rocks and great slopes which once held the ancient woods of a sequoia. The majority was sacrificed to construct San Francisco during the Gold-rush and after an earthquake of 1906. As Highways 1 change of the direction by the Fort Ross, an early Russian outpost, the wood dominate between villages again. Today, the registered cities addressed tourism to support their economic systems.

Those which endured fires and business cycles including the colourful village of Mendosino, polish their Victorian heritage to tempt visitors with galleries, bookstores and fashionable restaurants. At fans of the nature also is much to appreciate in the area thanks to its routes and the points of view. The most fearless enterprise is even more North to investigate the phenomenon of the Glass Beach where several small bays carrying the ocean ruins of a carpet of beaten glass.

1. Finding of the glass beach

Glass is found in sandy deposits of the southern bays in and around the State Makkerrikera park in Fort Bragg. The most known is the Glass Beach located in the park. Receiving is rather simple there; just take a wide walking path from area of the free parking on Glass Bich Drive. These are several blocks west of the Highway 1 designate West Elm Street. Footwear of wear or a sandal with a good step as you want to rise between rocks to reach small beaches and bays where the glass is found. Many cover area. There are several routes which are going south from the state park which bring to other smooth beaches also.

2. As the glass created beach

There is an old myth that every time the seaman was lost in the sea, mermaids will shout, and their tears would be washed up on coast as a sea glass. History began with the mermaid who very much was pleasant the seaman from far away and tamed the rough sea to save his life. The Neptune was angry and sent it on depths. Since then her mermaid breaks off washing as a sea glass - souvenirs of unpaid love. To tell the truth, origin of a sea glass of Fort Bragg much ordinarier

The earthquake of 1906 which wiped out San Francisco also broke off Fort Bragg. To that tragedy the people saved the garbage on their properties and again used what they could. After an earthquake and before restoration could begin, the fallen houses, shops, and all garbage it had to be removed. It was much burned or destroyed by the bulldozer to the ocean. This practice continued within many decades while to a surprise of community the most part of garbage remained in coastal bays. It thought that the broken bottles and pottery, old glass windows, and reflect washed up in surfing to become a sea glass though there is no consent on why it continues to return to this area.

The garbage remained on the beach to the 1960th when coastal cleaning began, and the phenomenon of the Glass Beach was shown. The crocks smoothing from tumbling stunts in the sea flew on sand with each wave. When the author Richard Lemott, appear, on Martha Stewart's show gave a tip on the gathering sea glass, the Glass Beach became the international phenomenon.

3. Creation of a sea glass takes years

Years for tumbling stunts and aging of glass are required to create unique opaque gloss and the pointed corrosion connected with a sea glass. The lime and soda used in a razbiraniye of the most part of a glass brine in process called hydration. When you reach the Glass Beach, you hold a part and you drive your fingers at the edges - you will find that they are krugla and feel soft, unlike glasswares to which we got used.

4. It is a beach glass or a sea glass?

As the glass on the Glass Beach arrived from many other sources, other chemicals interacted in the course of an inclination, forming crystals on some surfaces of parts. The glass which fell in fresh water avoids process of pointed corrosion because of difference in pH. Some experts claim that freshwater glass - "beach glass", but sea glass it is necessary to call "a sea glass".

5. You can learn about a sea glass from the captain and his transparent collection

The captain Cass Forrington, the retired sea captain, told to visitors everything about a sea glass of the Coast of Mendosino as it opened the International Sea Museum of Glass in the winter of 2009. The small museum is removed from 1 promezhutochny Mendosino Highway and Fort Bragg and filled with cases of the unique sea glass arranged according to their color and history.

Forrington began to collect a sea glass during its travel and is proud shows rare and chemically unique parts. The gift shop differs in the Glass Beach and other sea glass jewelry. At last quantity, Forrington had more than 150.000 parts - and it still gathers. Its galleries include displays of rare stoppers, handle parts, marble and "rounds". While the museum of a cottage quite small, is number for the displays which are in detail stating the history of accidents as Prank of a clipper which spilled its cargo of the Gold-rush along the coast and a glass of Vaseline which was made until the end of World War II. Under black radiation, uranium in this unique glass of a heat, doing it by a look to see.

6. What to is looked for on the glass beach

The author Lemott assumes that the best times to look for a sea glass after inflow or during the full moon during the spring or fall. While new beach glass can wash hands after storm what to remain in Glass Beach bays very small parts, and the majority of color parts didn't become. Years as a popular destination led to intervention.

It is illegal to remove something from the state beach, but many visitors adapt to a comfortable position and begin the weakening problem of sifting through glass pebble, incapable to resist desire to take them favourite finds. Don't add to their abuse.

7. Where color arrives from

According to collectors in Sea Jewelry, the most part of a sea glass green, brown, and transparent (which becomes white), which corresponds to objects which usually refuse in the sea, including beer bottles and bottles of soda. Sometimes parts of pottery or porcelain appear from the sea. A lavender, pink, red, and blue glass - rare finds.

Blue glass probably arrived from bottles of Noxzema and Bromo Seltzer, and some spirits and containers for the medicine released on the prescription.

Treasure shades from pink to lemon-green, perhaps, arrived from bottles of spirits or the transparent glass mixed with manganese during explanation process. As the oxidized chemicals, they lead to shades of a lavender and a carnation.

The clear, poorly green parts known as a glass of Vaseline, were made in from the 1800th to the 1940th. The most parts flare when you hold light to them - the phenomenon made by uranium which thawed in forms. This glass is very rare.

Glass of fire - the most rare find. Old dumps, perhaps, underwent burning which can lead to the glass thawing around objects or inclusions. These parts consider precious for their "impurity". Some of these treasures are on the International Museum of Glass Beach.

8. Remove on the beautiful beach of a stream of a pudding

After search of the Glass Beach extend legs along multiuse route which brings out of Makkerriker and the North on the Beach of the Stream of the Pudding, crossing a high, wooden platform of the train.

This beach should be explored for high views of a platform and several pools of inflow in the small, picturesque bay, it is covered with mountain exposures. There are several routes on a bluff. Everyone brings into the huge pool subject to action of inflows lower than rocks on point just north of the beach. If you have more time, and inflow low, mutual around point to the "hidden" sandy coast known as Old Hol Road the Scourge.

9. Investigate out of bays

In ten miles north of Mendosino, Fort Bragg sticks to working class on its roots. Commercial and boats for sports fishing, still anchor in a deep shelter of the River harbor of Noyo. In the city there is a small street of shops, necessary Starbucks and several modest restaurants where quite good food or several plates of sushi will cost much less, than in Mendosino. North of the city and the West along the coast there are fantastically scenic views. Considering all miracles of the nature to areas, the Glass Beach - only one of the interesting places costing visits.

Address the hills covered with the wood for an earth adventure. You will pass old lodges of miners, a part of the same design as destroyed during an earthquake which led to creation of the Glass Beach. The train of the Skunk of 1885 goes from the coast to Uillits, other scene of action of the District of Mendosino. It once towed checks in in the country, but now tourists of transfer buses through sequoias of the second growth. Be surprised to the high wood, listening to the dressed guides who are full of historical understanding. Before return the passengers will enjoy a lunch in repeatedly authorized camping of check in. The handful of hotels is disseminated between the Stream of the Pudding and the Noyo River.

10. Treasures of an outflow and caution

Bays and rocks of the State Makkerrikera park - the dynamic places determined by a continuous roar of Breykers. Otliva often show much more, than glass. Crabs, mollusks, anemones and water plants do the houses between rocks and in pools of inflow. Stop still within several moments, and the small world legs becomes the busy movement. Cast a shadow, and everything goes still again.

All good, being homeless as waves can be dangerous along Fort Bragg coast. It is necessary to watch children. Dogs have to remain on their leads. Stop on routes as sandy rocks can collapse, especially later one of frequent heavy rains of area.

The most important thing which any visitor of the Glass Beach can make is in leaving to what glass remains. If you have to have a souvenir, find it in the International gift shop of the Museum of glass.