Ever heard of Marble/Glass Beach on Kauai?

[GlassyEyed]

I was stationed on Kauai in the mid-90's and we used to visit the beach to find marbles. What it was...was a large dump that has been closed for many many years. the waves have eroded the bank and dug back into the dump quite a ways. All the paper items have long since rotted and the leftover metal is so rusted it just clumps together in big slabs.

But the glass....and man was there tons of it...has remained behind. It was approx. 6" to 1' deep in spot on the beach...typical beach glass. There was so much of it that we never really paid it any attention except for the bright colors such as cobalts, greens, and reds. As you were picking up the glass you would come across marbles...they never seemed to end. We collected a bucketful of them...all sizes and colors.

At first I thought maybe it was just glass that had rolled around on the beach so long it had formed into a marble shape, but we would find them almost down to a nothing size all the way up to shiny looking so I knew they were marbles.

I'll have to look them up and post a picture later after I get home.

[Marbleguy]

My bet is there'll be lots of Akro Agate Co. marbles from the 1930s/40s. Those are nothing to sneeze at. I dig them up every day here in the Mojave Desert ghost town I live in. This morning I dug into a late 1800s pocket and found a perfect,clay marble.