Glass Float 🐟
Old glass fishing net float hanging in a local restaurant, there is a price tag on it that says 300 dollars. Some floats can be over a hundred years old, but some can also be newly made. They come in many colors from blue, green, red and even a rare yellow. Tho most are blues and greens I see around different places for sale. This one is about twelve inches across.
I see a lot of small ones for sale that are about seven to ten dollars for ones that are four inches across.
Some have old original net rope on them with barnacles, this one looks like it has new net rope on it.
I've never found one on the beaches here but I have heard people do find them up along the far end of Kachemak bay down by Homer Alaska.
Check out this guys youtube videos, he fly's to remote beaches in his bush plane and finds loads of them! Its amazing how many are out there waiting to be found!
Beach combing Alaska for Japanese Glass Floats Video 1 Video 2
Alaska glass floats youtube ch
Glass float history on wikipedia.
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I remember first seeing floats as a child. A neighbor had visited California and found a few on the beach. I had never seen an ocean and thought the floats were fascinating! Lovely photos!
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That must of been exciting for them when they found some floats
and you seeing what treasures oceans can have!
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If it's one of the old Japanese ones, $300 is not a bad price for a big one... particularly if it crossed the ocean and landed on an Alaskan beach, unscathed.
They occasionally wash up on the beaches closer to the Pacific (Washington state and Vancouver Island) but we don't see them all the way on here in our protected bays.
They are pretty cool, regardless!
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Imagine how many are out there hiding in the many nooks and crannies.
It is amazing how long they have floated around the gyros!
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Wow thats cool and unexpected. Glass floats? Seems too delicate. They are beautiful 🙂
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You would think so huh, but they sure are thick and durable!
These floats can travel for years in a circle from Japan to far Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Canada and Alaska, then back to Japan. When I lived in Northern Japan, my wife and I used to love to beachcomb for them. We collected many colors, sizes and shapes and have them decorating our house and yard in Texas now. That's a long way for a glass float. Thanks for bringing back some happy memories with your post.
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to see the ones decorating your yard someday! Its amazing
how far they float around, almost like boomerangs lol
When I said "decorate," I should have said "block holes under the fence that critters come in through." Anyway, here are some of our floats:
WOW those are very cool! I like that long looking one in the
big jar! I've never seen one like that till now!!
The big ones make for great and pretty fence hole covers lol
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Nice color on the glass float. I have seen them for sale but never found one on the beach.
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The many blue green shades must blend in with the water nicely.
Maybe one day we both will find one!
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