A Captain’s Story of Fort Bragg’s Glass Beach

A Captain’s Story of Fort Bragg’s Glass Beach
Sunset at Glass Beach in Fort Bragg, Calif., on Sept. 3, 2022. Ilene Eng/NTD
Ilene Eng
Ilene Eng
Reporter
|Updated:
0:00

FORT BRAGG, Calif.—Millions of smooth glass pebbles blanket the shore near Fort Bragg, giving the famous site its name: Glass Beach. Though the glass pebbles are not quite an all-natural formation, they’ve been drawing tourists for decades.

Joseph Cass Forrington, a former sea captain and owner of the Sea Glass Museum, said it was just considered a local beach when he visited with a friend.

Ilene Eng
Ilene Eng
Reporter
Ilene is a reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area covering Northern California news.
twitter
Related Topics