Shells, Beach Glass & Shark's Teeth

Newbie Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 4

Hello,

I will be in the Cayman Islands the week of Dec. 21-27. I live on the coast of North Carolina and I like to make jewelry from beach glass and shark's teeth. Where is the best place to find them? Also, where is the best place to look for shells?

Thank you,

Becky

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject:

Becky,

I always find a TON of beach glass on SMB just up a little from the Hyatt (toward the Marriott). Cemetery Beach and Smith's Cove are also good spots. I'm looking at a little jar of it on my desk right now. Smile

As for shells, most that I have found are small, since the reef tends to stop a lot of what would otherwise roll in. I did find a really nice shell of undetermined name a couple of years ago...need to get that identified....

As for shark's teeth - I've never found one of those.

Hope this helps.

Jen

Newbie Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 1

Jen,

"TON of beach glass on SMB" I am also interested in looking for beach glass can you tell what you mean by SMB.

Robert

Native Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 2035 Location: Illinois

Robert

SMB is Seven Mile Beach

Hope this helps and have fun looking.

shelly :-)

Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject:

SMB - Seven Mile Beach

Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:53 pm Post subject:

Just leave a little there for me!!!!

Jen

Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:48 am Post subject:

My wife finds all kinds of tiny perfect shells every year, and once she did find a shark's tooth!

Native Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 1023 Location: Illinois

Happy to learn you can bring shells back......another island we've visited they frown on that and any type of broken coral that washes up is prohibited.......is it the same in GC? Guess I don't understand why you cannot bring back broken pieces of coral. I am not familiar with beach glass, can someone fill me in please?

Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject:

knees,

Beach glass is just broken pieces of glass that have been rolled around in the ocean with all the rocks, shells, etc. I like the pieces that show the most wear. They are nice and cloudy. We found lots of pieces at Cemetery Beach. We even made a special trip just to find more pieces. If you snorkel along the water's edge you can find lots. If you're comfortable diving down to get the ones just out of your reach, you will do well! We found some at the other spots mentioned, but this was by far the best place we found.

Also, my father-in-law found what seems to be a dried up seahorse there. It looks like the ones you might find in a bag of shells. Has anyone else ever found this??

Allison

Native Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 2035 Location: Illinois

Alison

Never seen a seahorse. But have gotten sand dollars --which I thought was a treasure!

Shelly :-)

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject: Beach glass

Where are the best beaches for picking up beach glass? Had good luck 1 year by the Turtle Nest Inn. Heard there was a good site near Rum Point.

Any ideas?

Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject:

I read this thread and now I'm more interested than ever in beach glass. Never really thought about it before, but having read through this thread, I can see its appeal.

I will be making my 2nd trip to the Caymans in January of next year (after a 12 year absense) with my lovely wife (her first trip) and this would be a GREAT way for her to get some mermories and have something to bring back and put on display. Smile

Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 11:51 am Post subject:

Madtown Tim,

Welcome to the forum! We collected a few made great gifts for the kids. We were creative with them along with sea shells etc...

Status Member Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 765

Here is a beach glass sign I made from North Side collected glass.

Although the sign background looks the same as the wall, it's actually made with sand from our beach!

Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject:

Nice work Sue!

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