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December 27, 2010
beach combing (v.)
Ah, the art of beach combing - or perhaps the art that comes of it. It's a pretty neat activity that many people take part in while they're on the Westcoast, especially on Vancouver Island. Many people try to accumulate enough cool stuff to make art pieces (including picture frames and jewellery), but most take part in the hopes of clearing the beaches of unnaturally beach-occurring stuff.
Cool finds:
- shoes (hopefully, foot-free)
- boxes of high quality merchandise from China lost at sea that fell off of freighters (like boxes of shoes).
- beer bottles, beer cans, beer bongs, beer caps, lots and lots of beer stuff.
- plastic bottle caps (it's always disappointing).
- These awesome Japanese glass floats or buoys, from as early as the 30s (read about them here), which some persistent beachcombers spend their entire lives hoping to find. They're worth a pretty penny but no true beachcomber would sell it if they stumbled across one.
- poles, tubes, and other phallic objects.
- shipping pallets, or at least pieces of them (not that exciting seeing there's plenty of timber around anyway).
- nets, hooks, and other fishing/aquatic equipment) & boat parts (even motors).
- lots and lots of dead sea stuff (that still looks alive).
With all this adventuresome opportunity, my boyfriend Ben and I ventured out to Schooner Cove to partake in this island hobby.
However, much to our chagrin, we wound up bushwhacking.
Stay tuned.
Cool finds:
- shoes (hopefully, foot-free)
- boxes of high quality merchandise from China lost at sea that fell off of freighters (like boxes of shoes).
- beer bottles, beer cans, beer bongs, beer caps, lots and lots of beer stuff.
- plastic bottle caps (it's always disappointing).
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| Japanese glass float |
- poles, tubes, and other phallic objects.
- shipping pallets, or at least pieces of them (not that exciting seeing there's plenty of timber around anyway).
- nets, hooks, and other fishing/aquatic equipment) & boat parts (even motors).
- lots and lots of dead sea stuff (that still looks alive).
With all this adventuresome opportunity, my boyfriend Ben and I ventured out to Schooner Cove to partake in this island hobby.
However, much to our chagrin, we wound up bushwhacking.
Stay tuned.
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