Author: Cara Giaimo / Source: Atlas Obscura
Ah, the beach. Kids frolicking, gulls wheeling overhead, sand between your toes. The heat of the sun…the rumble of crashing waves…thousands of colorful plastic eggs strewn along the shore. A human foot with the shoe still on. An unidentifiable “globster,” stinking up a beach in the Philippines. The sea is full of mysteries, and sometimes it tosses them at us.
Now we want to hear about all the puzzling treasures you’ve found there.When I beachcomb, I mostly find cool rocks and shells. But the ocean is a churn of human and natural history, and over years of writing for Atlas Obscura, I’ve realized that the tideline is a prime place for strange meetings. Last year, Holger Spreer and Nele Wree of Suderoog, Germany came across a waterproof digital camera washed up on the shore, and managed to use the footage they found on it to reunite the camera with…
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