Well, a while back I made a post about "bottle netting". It was about going out fishing in a kayak in a flooded area where I ended up NETTING some bottles that were just floating in the floatsom.
Well this past weekend, I ended up doing a kayak trip on a river, and lo and behold, I paddled along a bank and found an incredable amount of glass from all different time periods. AND I was able to reach out of the boat and pull a bottle right out of the bank!
My bottle finds started on Friday night. I "gave up" on a strawberry bed I had in my backyard and gave them to a friend. We dug up a patch of strawberries I had growing for the past 5 years or so, and when we did, I found a very odd bottle. It was broken, but it looked like a "little brown jug", but was square and the size of a Carters ink. Very odd little bottle. Saturday night I went camping in a very old area that has a lot of abandon sawmill towns. That night I WAS looking for bottles or bottle sites and found very little. Maybe a few privy sites, and a smaller, newer dump site.
Sunday I was just out kayaking with some friends and bottles were the furtherst thing from my mind. Toward the end of the trip, were were paddling into a strong headwind, so I paddled close to shore to try to find shelter from the wind. Since it had a fairly steep bank, I thought the wind would be less. And I was right. But I looked over at the shore and it was full of glass! Bottles, China, Jugs and all sorts of garbage. Then I saw a blue bottle sticking out of the bank. I was able to grab it right from the boat! It reminded me of a few months ago when I was netting bottles from a boat! Crazy chit for sure! How often can you just pluck bottles from a boat?
The steep bank dropped off into deep water, and I expect that this might be a great dive site for bottles. It appears to be an old dump (pretty extensive) that the creek cut into over the years. There didn't seem to be any evidence of any bottle diggers ever digging this spot. Went back on the 4th with a hand tool and did a little scratching around a bit. Found a few newer bottles. Nothing to brag about. Lots of older bottle parts.
It jogged my memory and reminded me of a few other places I had seen a dump on the banks of a creek or river in the past. I seem to do better at finding bottles when I'm not looking for them!
Well this past weekend, I ended up doing a kayak trip on a river, and lo and behold, I paddled along a bank and found an incredable amount of glass from all different time periods. AND I was able to reach out of the boat and pull a bottle right out of the bank!
My bottle finds started on Friday night. I "gave up" on a strawberry bed I had in my backyard and gave them to a friend. We dug up a patch of strawberries I had growing for the past 5 years or so, and when we did, I found a very odd bottle. It was broken, but it looked like a "little brown jug", but was square and the size of a Carters ink. Very odd little bottle. Saturday night I went camping in a very old area that has a lot of abandon sawmill towns. That night I WAS looking for bottles or bottle sites and found very little. Maybe a few privy sites, and a smaller, newer dump site.
Sunday I was just out kayaking with some friends and bottles were the furtherst thing from my mind. Toward the end of the trip, were were paddling into a strong headwind, so I paddled close to shore to try to find shelter from the wind. Since it had a fairly steep bank, I thought the wind would be less. And I was right. But I looked over at the shore and it was full of glass! Bottles, China, Jugs and all sorts of garbage. Then I saw a blue bottle sticking out of the bank. I was able to grab it right from the boat! It reminded me of a few months ago when I was netting bottles from a boat! Crazy chit for sure! How often can you just pluck bottles from a boat?
The steep bank dropped off into deep water, and I expect that this might be a great dive site for bottles. It appears to be an old dump (pretty extensive) that the creek cut into over the years. There didn't seem to be any evidence of any bottle diggers ever digging this spot. Went back on the 4th with a hand tool and did a little scratching around a bit. Found a few newer bottles. Nothing to brag about. Lots of older bottle parts.
It jogged my memory and reminded me of a few other places I had seen a dump on the banks of a creek or river in the past. I seem to do better at finding bottles when I'm not looking for them!
