I kid you not, I was just telling a friend about these floats and your videos a few hours ago and here you are with a new one! This is on my bucket list! Love your videos. Thanks for sharing! Chris in NJ
This is just amazing to me! It would be better than Christmas to find all those treasures! There's just something mesmerizing about them that they look so delicate but they are so tough to have survived in the rough for so long! I put my Christmas order in with my husband to order me a set! I'd adopt a hundred if I could, believe me!
Cyn, Bassetts aren't the most useless dog. Sure, they can't hunt, even rabbits can outrun, out smart them. They can't protect people nor property. They couldn't fetch a rock. They can't herd sheep, much less chickens. It's said dogs reflect their owners, seems about right, they're not too bright...
These glass floats were used to float foreign high seas drift nets that were used many years ago. They were replaced by palstic and Styrofoam floats. I sell them as decorations at alaskaglassfloats.com. Thanks for commenting. Paul
I lived on prince of Wales island in southeast Alaska , found all kinds of stuff after the Japanese tsunami! Look how the currents work here in Alaska, also Kodiak island gets a huge amount from Asia! Called Japanese currents! Also affects our southern gulf of Alaska weather!😳😉
I remember finding these a lot as a kind beachcombing in Hawaii. Finding the intact ones are so rare nowadays! The reef usually breaks them before they reach shore! Used to find the ones from Japan and Russia too!
So happy to see you, your daughter and sweet Ollie!! I bought some of your floats on Etsy and they are beautiful! That real blue one is gorgeous! Thanks for posting!
@@marcelsinky1652 They are used by witches for scrying (joke). Most people use a mobile phone to scry these days (a black mirror). So they are old tech 😄John Dee was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. He also used a black mirror (Claude glass) to scry, a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour. Bound up like a pocket-book or in a carrying case. He signed his letters 007. So now you know, the original James Bond.
The floats were used to float high seas drift nets and were replaced with plastic and Styrofoam. Thousand escaped and were washed all over the Pacific. I sell them on alaskaglassfloats.com
I had one of the green ones when I was in Shishmaref. My brother came over for a visit with his son. Thought it would bounce off the wall. End of story.
Yeah but the glass balls do have history behind them, many people collect them for fun or to sell them. I'd rather see something like those on beaches instead of plastic bottles and bags.
Just found your channel and subscribed. I lived in Alaska in the '70's, 80's and 90's and loved beach combing on the Kenai and Alaska peninsula. I saw that old G.I. packboard at the start of this video and had to laugh...mine is hanging in the garage. I wonder how many are still out there? Best wishes from rural S.W. Virginia.
All the glass floats were netted and attached for flotation on foreign high seas drift nets years ago. They were replaced in the 60's with palstic and Styrofoam.
I did not know the fishermen used glass floats with their nets. Although I do remember seeing green glass balls with rope woven around at seaside towns and fishing villages, growing up in the UK. I just saw them as decorative and didn't realize their true purpose! How old are the glass floats that you find? How great to be out in nature, beachcombing, recycling and making a little money as well!
Hi Stacey The big group of floats was washed up in a big storm. They were used for flotation on foreign high seas drift nets mostly Japanese. Some were washed out from where they were buried on the beach for years. I sell them on alaskaglassfloats.com if you are interested. Thanks for your interest. Paul
@@Phoenix-mn2yt Thank you, but what was there purpose. Just to look pretty in the water or were they made to do something. Not quite understanding why we’re they made. Help nature or to just look pretty or did they help in the ocean some how. ??
...these Japanese fishing floats have traveled many miles. They wash up in Alaska. This man sells the orbs. People, like me, desire glass orbs for study or decorative purposes. I like the story they tell. Seatrash is cleaned up as well...you know, Protect Mother Earth... Do you 'get it' now?
Great video. (I had a hemorrhoid named Cuomo. Had it surgically removed. Decided the next one was gonna be named Ollie. But that was before I met your sweet Ollie. Gonna have to change my plans to calling it Biden.). Yes, your daughtwr is beautiful and Ollie is such a nice companion.
