Comments on: Sorry Jaunted, This Is The Real Kauai Glass Beach

By: casacaudill

casacaudill — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:13:56 +0000

We were in Kauai in 2005 or 2006 and stopped at Glass Beach on the advice of our guidebook. We got there, scratched our heads, looked around, shrugged our shoulders and proceeded on to Salt Pond park for some warm water floating. There was very little glass there 3-4 years ago, so I’d doubt there’d be much today. Disappointing that Jaunted ran an article that is so clearly bunk.

By: Jeanne Leblanc

Jeanne Leblanc — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:11:36 +0000

Hi Rob,

It was a much smaller patch of glass than five years earlier, and the glass didn’t seem as thickly layered over the sand. I’m just thinking it’s still worth a look if you’ve never seen something like that before. I wouldn’t make a long trip just to see it, though.

Still loving the blog. Keep it up!

Jeanne

P.S. I’ll be back in Hawaii in January, though I don’t know if we’ll make it to Kauai again.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:27:58 +0000

Hi Jeanne,

Sorry we didn’t get to see you when you were here. You must have hit the beach on an especially good day, as our photos and experiences are very current. We’ll trek back over there again in a day or two and see if anything has changed.

Aloha, Rob

By: Jeanne Leblanc

Jeanne Leblanc — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:23:35 +0000

I was at Glass Beach in May and I found it was not as impressive as it had been when I last saw it, in 2004. Even with less glass, though, it was a cool thing to see — worth a stop if one is passing through the area, I thought.

Here are two photos I took in the more recent visit:

http://coachclassblog.com/photos?g2_itemId=62

http://coachclassblog.com/photos?g2_itemId=113

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:27:13 +0000

@JetSetCD — I see you’ve updated the Fort Bragg part, too. Just wondering, though — have you ever driven from San Francisco to Fort Bragg in “about two hours”? I did the trip once and it took me significantly longer. And Google Maps seems to agree with me.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:31:56 +0000

Next we’ll be taking tourists out to see the giant glob of plastic gobbly gook out in the death zone of the pacific, aka The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Not quite as quiant and unharmful as the glass though also impossible to clean up!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/19/SS6JS8RH0.DTL

By: Pua

Pua — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:27:08 +0000

I didn’t even know about the Kauai Glass Beach but always loved to go for ‘ocean treasure’ hunt on coral beach at Mauna Kea. That’s where you find ocean glass or nice shells with the kiddos. Just make sure that the shells don’t have any little creatures still living inside. Ocean glass became much less during the recent years. Hope it’s due to people throwing less glass into the ocean.

Anyhow, there are still many secrets in Hawaii not even residents are always aware of. I posted recently a youtube video about a blowhole diver on South Point of the Big Island http://kohalacoastweb.blogspot.com/2009/07/secrets-of-hawaii-hawaii-blow-hole.html You have to see that! Awesome!

Aloha Pua
Best Hawaii Vacation Blog

By: JetSetCD

JetSetCD — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:39:09 +0000

Hi Rob,

Thank You for dropping by the beach and taking new pictures and updating us on the situation. We’ve updated the Jaunted post. Also, for visitors to Hawaii I would still recommend GPS. In a rental car and faced with an oil refinery, a tourist could doubt the location.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:41:01 +0000

Hi Oliver, and North Kohala.

Oliver, I didn’t even notice that in the Jaunted article, but that’s so true.

North Kohala, at that time the glass was being replenished via the nearby dump/recycling. That hasn’t been true though for years.

Thanks and aloha.

Rob

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:58:47 +0000

And the inaccuracies don’t stop in Hawaii… The last sentence, “If Hawaii is a bit far, you could also have some luck on our own west coast at the Glass Beach in Fort Bragg, just up from San Francisco” is wrong, too, unless you consider “171 miles and 3-4+ hrs of drive time to be “just up from San Francisco”.