Glass Beach is located in Fort Bragg, about 120 miles from San Francisco, on the Mendocino Coast. The beach is one of the most fascinating beaches in the world, where each pebble is created of fine rounded, colorful pieces of glass. It is a very beautiful place where nature has turned human mistake into a true treasure. The legend says that every time a sailor is taken by the sea, the Mermaids cry, and their tears turn into a sea glass that is then washed up on the shore.

The reality is much less romantic: Sea glass comes from clearing of the debris from the destroyed city buildings– overwhelming amounts of it were dumped into the sea after the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The time and the power of the ocean slowly turned the broken windows and bottles into colorful treasures visitors come from great distances to collect.

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