Hundreds of lovers of sea glass and ocean art filled the Santa Cruz Boardwalk' Cocoanut Grove Saturday to comb through the ...

The dumping became such a problem that city leaders closed the area in the 1960s, leaving the ocean's waves to break down ... Necessary's sea glass art can be found on Instagram at @msartsy21.

which would break the glass into smaller pieces. When these fractured bits traveled close enough to the coast, high tides and incoming waves would wash them out to sea. Wave action causes these ...

But when rolled and softened by the waves, then spit out onto a shore, they become something extraordinary: colored pieces of stone. It takes about 30 years for the ocean to break down glass into sea ...