Geting Caught Up

Its been a while since my last post. Thank June's wash-out weather for part of it. Its been very rainy here, but fortunately, we have had good days in July.

I think my theories on geology/hydrology have won out. Initially, it looked like the "winter's deposit" theory, that the most glass would be available early and then the supply would wane, would win. Its been up and down as you'll see below, which argues for my theory.

There we two "in competition" days in the spring. Since then, we've been to the site of competition 4 times...

7/5: 37 total pieces (vs. 80 and 64 previously). There was even distribution amongst the participants, which we haven't seen since.

7/11: 78 total pieces with one person finding 39! The competition kind of blew apart on this day. I am still in second, but by a huge margin now. Oh, the monster I've created!

7/17: 1 piece. Very frustrating day. Very little "material" on the beach -- as smooth and wide at low-tide as I have ever seen it. The random seaweed piles didn't help. I fortunately found the only piece of the day (in 6 inches of water): a nice chunky browny. I am pleased to be the only one without a "zero" day, so far.

7/25: 23 total peices. Not a great day for me. I only found two. One was good. The other qualified for our competition, but wasn't that nice. It was cloudy when we went walking, so it was hard to spot the pieces. Oh well.

So far, our total is many multiples of last year. The erratic catch tells me there is plenty out there, it just depends on the conditions.


One additional note: I found a small, but nice, green piece -- on the bay side of Cape Cod! At first I didn't think the wave action was rough enough, then, I didn't see any glass. Finally, while talking to a relative on our last day, I looked down and there it was in one of my footprints! Nice.