Glass Beach Kauai

I was so excited to locate this legendary beach to search for sea glass.

Glass beach kauai. Glass beach is best for beach combing only. There is also an old cemetery up the road a little ways. Please don t take any of the glass leave it for others like you to enjoy for many years. This is kauai s glass beach and it is covered with millions of sea glass pebbles in brilliant hues of aqua blue and brown.

The shoreline at glass beach is covered with millions of sea glass pieces brown aqua colored clear and blue. As other writers noted there isn t much glass on the beach. Glass beach glass beach is a neat stop if you are in the area sea lions do come and lay on the beach here. The glass found at glass beach was mainly from broken bottles and auto glass dumped by swiss cheese shoreline on the western end of kauai.

The beach s regular rock is basalt but the sea glass formed after years of discarded glass. Like most sea glass beaches glass beach in kauai was used for many years as a dump site because when people threw their trash into the ocean the water and waves tossed and turned and broke down the waste. Glass beach is a beach in eleele an industrial area in kauai hawaii that is made of sea glass. But if you are going to the waimea canyon you might as well spend the twenty minutes that it will take may want to eat and drink at the.

Kauai s glass beach is located in the middle of an industrial area near port allen harbor in ele ele. Also this beach most likely isn t going to be close to where you are staying. It is in hanapepe bay near port allen harbor. Eventually the waves brought the glass back onto shore.

The glass found at glass beach was mainly from broken bottles and auto glass dumped by swiss cheese shoreline on the western end of kauai. Over to the left you see a lot of old car parts not sure from where. This place is a beautiful photo opp at sunset. The glass originates from broken bottles and auto glass dumped here years ago.