It's as if this camper read my mind, as that is always what I am looking for on the shores here.
It doesn't count as exploring the biota of Narragansett Bay, but when out on Rose Island, it's really difficult to not get absorbed into this hunt. Rose Island, that little island that you can see off to the south when going over the Newport Bridge, makes their own seaglass for their visitors to find. In the wintertime, they break all colors and shapes of glass and ceramic so that the softened treasures will wash up on their shores. And when bringing a group of campers out to the island, it's sometimes difficult to distract them from this task!
Many of the campers from our Newport BayCamp out of Ft. Adams were on this same mission while exploring the shoreline. The best finds were an extremely smooth piece of light violet, a really thick and smooth piece of light aqua, and the bottom of a bottle that was smoothed, but the letters "EER" could still be made out. It's like solving a little piece of a mystery (some stories slightly more difficult to figure out that the bottle I just mentioned), but it's also a reminder that even though some man-made products pollute the environment around them, some products, when shaped by the sea, can turn beautiful and almost seem to be a natural part of their new environment.
For more information on Rose Island, visit http://www.roseislandlighthouse.org/
We also run winter seal watch trips with Rose Island http://www.quahog.org/attractions/index.php?id=1043
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