Glass Beach

As I was saying...

Off to the left of Glass Beach is a cliff.  We park up there by the cemetery, and walk to the edge.  Ah! An ancient, cooled lava flow.  Just look at those colors!

The lava tube collapsed somewhere back in time.  When they talk about The Tunnels over on the North Shore, this would be what it would look like if the ocean receded - only the tunnel would be much deeper.  If you snorkel out from the beach there, suddenly the lava flow ends and you are in deep, deep water and, yes, that's where the sharks are.  It took me less than a fraction of a fraction of a second to turn my tail back to shore!

Here at Glass, the whole shoreline reveals one pretty scene after another:

(I like his shadow in the bottom left corner :)

We stroll on, Granpa plays with the setting on his camera, and he gets this slow-motion picture of the sea flowing in through an arch.  Amazing color!  If you're lookin' at this on a smart phone, you need to move to a full screen computer!

As the water flows out Granpa refocuses his camera lens and gets a really great picture of the colors offered on the left of the cave.

In one of the pools of water left behind at high tide we find this little guy.  The water is sooo clear!

As usual there are simply too many gorgeous pictures to share...  Sorry.

Rather than clamber over the cooled black lava back to our car, we head up the cliff and inland.  Even there we find a pretty scene.

Even with the pesky power lines it's pretty.  I love the colors in the clouds, too.  

And, uh, how many people did you see crowding these photos?