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Sea Glass?
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ironman417
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Sea Glass?
Thanks for all your kind help.
I will look up the book "Pure Sea Glass" and see if my wife would like to read it.
I will go to my maps and find the locations of all the "sea glass" beachs.
Plannig for the trip is half the fun and makes the time pass so much quicker.
Thanks again....Al
I will look up the book "Pure Sea Glass" and see if my wife would like to read it.
I will go to my maps and find the locations of all the "sea glass" beachs.
Plannig for the trip is half the fun and makes the time pass so much quicker.
Thanks again....Al
This is an interesting question. We know that collecting shells is prohibited anywhere in the VI (US and B) and may be confiscated at the airports. The VINP has additional restrictions:
"Collecting plants and animals - dead or alive - or inanimate objects, including cultural artifacts, coral, shells, and sand is prohibited. Metal detectors are not allowed anywhere in the Park."
http://www.nps.gov/archive/viis/rules.htm
But I imagine that removing trash/litter is permitted. Would seaglass fall into the pot shard/arrowhead category? Or into the broken beer bottle category? Since I'm not sure, I'd probably prefer to err on the side of caution and not take it. I'd also check my intention. Our national parks are "ours." They're to be protected and preserved so that all can appreciate them for perpetuity. If I see something in a national park that is so attractive that I'd like to have it for myself, that's a good gauge that I should leave it for all to appreciate. If the park is ours collectively, none of us can possess any of it individually. If I pick up a broken beer bottle, I'm going to dump it in the trash. I'm not going to take it home and put it on a shelf. That's an act that we all benefit from. When I pick up some beautiful memento to remove from the park and take home, I'm doing that for myself. And depriving all of you of the opportunity to appreciate it. Seaglass photographs well.
"Collecting plants and animals - dead or alive - or inanimate objects, including cultural artifacts, coral, shells, and sand is prohibited. Metal detectors are not allowed anywhere in the Park."
http://www.nps.gov/archive/viis/rules.htm
But I imagine that removing trash/litter is permitted. Would seaglass fall into the pot shard/arrowhead category? Or into the broken beer bottle category? Since I'm not sure, I'd probably prefer to err on the side of caution and not take it. I'd also check my intention. Our national parks are "ours." They're to be protected and preserved so that all can appreciate them for perpetuity. If I see something in a national park that is so attractive that I'd like to have it for myself, that's a good gauge that I should leave it for all to appreciate. If the park is ours collectively, none of us can possess any of it individually. If I pick up a broken beer bottle, I'm going to dump it in the trash. I'm not going to take it home and put it on a shelf. That's an act that we all benefit from. When I pick up some beautiful memento to remove from the park and take home, I'm doing that for myself. And depriving all of you of the opportunity to appreciate it. Seaglass photographs well.
It's illegal for commercial boats to keep rocks dredged up in the ocean that were dumped for ballast back in the day... When it was dumped a couple hundred years ago it was a rock thrown over 20 miles to sea. Now it's an aged rock... Sea glass is becoming rare.(due to recycling ,Etc)...I just hope folks who keep a collection make sure it goes back to the sea when they are done with it. I've donated many a blue glass bottle to the sea when I fish, knowing someone will enjoy a bit of it(eventually). I don't consider all glass trash in the ocean.....
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Captain Jack
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