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© Elaine with Grey Cats from California, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 Davenport Beach
Rugged Santa Cruz County beach famed for rare art-glass nuggets and marbles washed out from the Lundberg Studios glassworks.
6 beaches in California where sea glass hunters report finds, across Contra Costa County, Mendocino County, Monterey County. Each guide covers what turns up, where to look and any local collecting rules.
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© Elaine with Grey Cats from California, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 Rugged Santa Cruz County beach famed for rare art-glass nuggets and marbles washed out from the Lundberg Studios glassworks.
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© Sergei Gussev · CC BY 2.0 Long Monterey city beach named by local collectors as one of the best sea glass spots on Monterey Bay.
Small bayside beach below a bluff on the Carquinez Strait, still giving clear, green and amber glass and old china at low tide.
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© Grendelkhan · CC BY-SA 4.0 America's most famous sea glass beach, formed from old town dumps, now a protected state park beach where the glass must be left in place.
Quiet San Francisco Bay beach near the Richmond Bridge, often scattered with sea glass and rarely crowded.
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© Sergei Gussev · CC BY 2.0 Monterey Bay beach where eroding dunes over a 1920s to 1950s town dump still release plenty of white, green and brown sea glass.