Light & Glass: Japanese Fishing Float by auntietk
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Description
Port Gamble, Washington, has a general store with a museum upstairs. This is a glass Japanese fishing float from that museum -- it would have washed up on a Washington beach many, many years ago.
Fishing floats in Japan were made of recycled sake bottles. From time to time these floats would break free of their nets and drift off. Currents moved the floats around the Pacific Ocean, and some of the glass ended up here.
Glass fishing floats are no longer used, so any that happened to wash ashore today would be quite old, and your chances of finding one would be slightly less than that of winning the lottery.
Comments (37)
RodS
That's really a nice composition, Tara. One of these would go well with my insulators! As rare as these are you could probably fetch a nice sum on eBay if you ever found one. Of course, if you're like me you'd probably just keep it. It is a pretty neat historical object. Wonderful cropping on this!
frankie96
A wonderful shot of ancient flotsam and jetsam...the glass seems to have a lot of depth when you look into the image...
goodoleboy
From its dire and spooky countenance, I would be averse to opening this float lest you release creatures too horrible to imagine.
faroutsider
What a trip! Marvelous capture, Tara. Sends my head in many different directions...
watapki66
Very cool shot!
emmecielle
Interesting image! :)
bebert
impressionnant !!