"Japanese" glass floats on the Caribbean

By Jack Brummet, South American Travel Ed.

I stumbled onto this woodpile the last day we spent at our eco-palapa-electricity free beach paradise, La Matuy (near the small town of Palomino in Colombia).

Growing up in the northwest, you would often find these glass floats along the Pacific Ocean beaches of Washington State.  Obviously, someone is still using glass floats somewhere in the Caribbean/Atlantic.  These three floats were just tossed on the woodpile they used for grilling fish and meats.  Like the floats from back home, they presumably washed ashore during a storm.  I didn't get a chance to ask anyone how they arrived, but they were a real blast from the past.  In later years, most fishermen quit using the glass floats and used some sort of far less attractive plastic ones.  When I was young, I remember seeing these in many people's homes, and most often they had found them washed up on a beach at somewhere like Kalaloch or La Push.

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