We started our adventure at Sea Glass Beach, which is just north of downtown Fort Bragg. The views out into the ocean are fantastic, and the trails along the coast are well defined and go on for as far as you can see. The whole reason for the name of this beach is that it used to be a junkyard, and after it closed, the glass/other metal materials that fell into the ocean eventually found their way back onto shore. Only now, the sharp shards of glass had rounded edges and were brighter than ever. Our advice is to make your way down to the sandy shores where you can dig your hand into the beach and come up with spectacular shapes and colors of glass. Unfortunately, people continue to take pieces of glass from the beach for their own collections despite conservation efforts, and the beach is slowly transforming into a normal northern California beach.