Many people’s first question to me when they discover I’m a beachcomber is about how and where I find all the treasures I find. Honestly, I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again – I don’t know. I wish I did. I wish that every day I could wake up and find the beach […]
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As the seasons change, so do the beachcombing conditions and finds. During the winter months, it seems like bigger shells and chunkier items like driftwood tend to wash up, compared to the summer months, when smaller shells and smaller piles of debris are the norm. As a beachcomber, one of my signs of summer is […]
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Last week on a beachcombing adventure I found a beautiful piece of seaglass. It is so grand I felt that it needed its own article. My boyfriend and I decided to stop by the beach on our way back home from doing some errands. Before we could even get to the actual sand, he retrieved […]
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Throughout the ages, the beaches around the world have been a destination of leisure for many. People set aside time and finances to plan a trip to the beach to have a great time, whether it’s relaxing with a good book, catching up with family and friends, going fishing or surfing, or doing whatever it […]
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One of the most exciting aspects of beachcombing is never knowing what you can find on the sandy shores of the beach. So many people ask me where to go in hopes that I know a secret location where they can easily find treasures, but the fact is that I have no way of ever […]
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After what seemed like a month-long Nor’easter, I finally made it to the beach for a lovely beachcombing session. Upon arriving at the beach, I immediately noticed a flock of cormorants and some pelicans resting on the shoreline, and I tried not to disturb them as I could clearly tell they had all just been […]
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In September I was in Norfolk, Virginia, and had the opportunity to beachcomb along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. By sheer coincidence, I was able to beachcomb on the Bay during a new moon, which is significant to a beachcomber because of the effects the moon can have on the tidal heights, which impact the […]
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Beachcombing is more than just finding treasures on the beach. The saying “The early bird gets the worm” is often true when beachcombing for seashells, and many people, especially new beachcombers, often race to be the first ones on the shore, as the first person on the beach will no doubt get the biggest and […]
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One of the juvenile whales can be spotted at about one minute into the video above, just after a splash of sea spray. Video by Kristin Hissong. On Sunday, February 6, several juvenile whales were spotted off the coast of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, just south of Cape Point in Buxton. Relatively close to […]
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Hatteras Island night owls reported a sighting of an unusual nighttime object that was seen flying over the island landscape on the night of January 30, 2022. At around 11:30 p.m., an unexplained light was seen flickering over the Atlantic Ocean. The video and pictures were captured in Frisco while looking between the constellations of […]
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