If you’ve ever spent an hour or two looking for water-worn sea glass along Lake Erie’s shoreline, you know the thrill of finding a pebble-sized piece of glass worn smooth by years of waves.
Now imagine finding a massive piece of sea glass — we’re talking 275 pounds — on a Lake Erie beach. That’s what happened to a Northeast Ohio couple. Their story was featured in a recent issue of Beachcombing magazine.
The frosted piece of glass is 12 inches high and 64 inches around. It’s the largest sea glass on record, according to the magazine story.
The piece weighs 275 pounds and measures about 12 inches high and 64 inches around. When Lynne and Larry Brady bought property east of Cleveland along the Lake Erie shoreline, they weren’t familiar with sea or beach glass. Friends told them small pieces of tumbled glass often wash ashore. Sea glass is found on beaches throughout the world.
One day, the couple saw a piece of glass sticking out of the sand. They dug, and dug, and kept digging until they uncovered their monster piece of sea glass.
Where it came from remains a mystery. Some experts on the subject speculate the glass may have been in Lake Erie for 100 years.
You can read the full story in Beachcombing magazine here: beachcombingmagazine.com/blogs/news/lake-erie-s-glass-giant
Photo of sea glass by Jan Haerer/Pixabay
Photo of Larry and Lynne Brady courtesy: Beachcombing magazine
