Going to the ocean and finding a glass float is on my bucket list, this is as close as I’ll probably ever get to it. Thank you for this video.😊

Glass Floats were used years ago for flotation on foreign high seas drift nets. They were replaced in the early 70's with plastic and Styrofoam floats.

I can remember back to the late 70’s in the U.K. a lot of people would have these hanging as decorations in their homes.

I grew up on the Oregon Coast (Manzanita) where my grandfather owned the only Tavern in town. Back in the late 60s and early 70s my grandmother and her friend picked up over a 1000 glass balls. The majority were large from soccerball size to beachball size. A few large and small rolling pins and one really nice half full water ball. We had over 300 hanging in our tav. They were getting pretty hard to find when I was growing up I found about 5 smalls and that was it. I remember how I found my first one after a big storm in the 4th grade. I went out the next day and all I found was a headless corpse that drifted in that morning. lol! Those were the days. You would have to be really lucky to find any these days. Our tavern was the San-Dune Tav my grandfather was Bud Kretsinger. Be safe and good hunting to you.

Wow, I never dreamt there would be so many in one place. How exciting. I’d be over the moon. So much fun. They sell for a pretty penny in places too.

When I was in Okinawa I found two glass balls the size of basketballs (one still had the netting around it). I also found several glass roller pin floats and of course many of the smaller ones you show here. Good times...and I still have them all.

I had no idea why this was in my recommendation feed but I'm very glad it was! Im down on the south coast of Australia, i love beachcombing . The best treasures to find here are paper nautilus, if you know how to look. One time i found dozens blown up behind the dunes ( they are very light and don't last long unlike these floats). It was a great day!

I had no idea there were still so many of those! Didn't they stop using glass ones a long time ago? They used to wash up on the Oregon coast in the 1950s, probably for many years, and my grandma had some. Nice video, thanks for sharing it!

Thank you so much for sending me the glass fishing floats all the way from you to Leeds, UK. They arrived safe and beautiful - thank you so much

We found one wedged in the rocks of a tide pool near Hilo. Stuck tight! My hubby worked it and turned it patiently, and managed to free it. It is a real treasure to us!

What a great video....Nothing wrong with the wind blowing, Sir! Gives you that kind of feeling you are out there as well....Great finds! Never knew too much about them. I just did a quick Google Search and some of them can be really old! Love it. Thanks for sharing your adventure. Good luck and happy hunting. Greetings from Canada.🇨🇦👍🏼🙏🏼🍀P.S. I love your loyal buddy you have with you!😍

I really like your video. What fun to find floats like that. Thank you for sharing!

I'd be a kid in a candy store....I wouldn't want to go home you are soooooo lucky xx

Thanks for the trip to the beach, the wind was so awsome I could almost taste the salty air. Great video. 🤗

Wind noise just gives it character and authenticity. I looked for floats for thirty years out on the Ozette, WA loop. Finally found one 5 years ago. It was actually impaled on a nail in a log so it has a small hole in it. My wife keeps wanting to throw it out but it means a lot for all those years looking. But did I did not find it on the loop. I camped out one weekend for Thanks giving, and found it while walking south towards the Norwegian Memorial. What a lucky find after all those years. Wish I could fly into a beach like this. I could buy them in stores, but it means a lot more to find them. Nice vid. The hound is the best part.

That is a great video! That first scene of the beach with all of those floats laying on it is crazy!

I find it amazing how many glass floaters you find and the fact that you fly in to the area. I know flying is not unusual in Alaska, however I find it so cool that you have the opportunity to explore that way. Beautiful glass. I have subscribed to your channel.

My goodness SO MANY! I barely breathed watching this video! Those are so COOL and such an interesting find! Its like an Easter egg hunt for grown-ups!

So awesome to be able to fly bush planes where you want. Awesome hobby man.

Oh cool new random video about to be in everyones recommendations and blow up over night.

WOW!!! Was in Alaska for most of a week and looked hard for one. Never even got close to one. What an area!!

I'd snatch up as many as I could.

So amazing! I live in southeast Alaska and I’ve always wanted to find one!! And to see you find so many is just awesome!!!

I'd give my left arm to go float hunting with you. I've been looking for those floats in the Maritimes but they aren't so readily available there. You've landed on a gold mine there!! In the initial scenes, are all those round things on the beach glass floats as well? If they are, you have yourself a profitable little nest egg there! They would certainly pay for the gas for your plane and more!! These are just beautiful! I'm on my way to your website to purchase. Thanks so much for sharing!!

Thank you for a great video. I sold thousands of glass floats over the years. A few as big as 17 inch diameter, more around 5 inch dia. From Austria, Germany, Portugal, England, USA (yep), India, Japan Korea, Phillipines (very dark blue) CCCP (RUSSIA), and China. The Japanese glass floats are the most common followed by Korean and Japanese. Here in the Bahamas they have been collecting them for nearly 100 years. Thanks again, I forwarded this to my bush pilot nephu in Alaska.

I seem to have watched the whole catalog today! I would love to be out there, seeing and finding them myself, but watching these videos is probably as close as I will get. Definitely putting an order in! You have a fan, both of the antiques and of the cool Alaska footage!

When we lived in Japan ( 5 years ) we ( me and my 8 siblings) would go down to the beach after a big storm and find these glass globes. But, the best thing of all was finding a basketball sized globe in mint condition with or without the ropes. Those were the good old days . We flew PAN AM to Japan, it was a 23 hours flight and we stopped in Alaska for refuelling.

That was very interesting. As you said the beach area floats were mostly visible but the marsh ones were hidden. I live near the Atlantic ocean. When I go there to collect beach treasures I like to check the high wrack line first. I use a reacher (due to back problems) to uncover the goodies underneath the weeds and grass. It’s amazing what can be found,if you take the time to look. Thank you for sharing such an interesting beachcomb adventure. Blessings

wow, so awesome! I actually found one in the middle of the Louisiana swamp a few years ago.

What a beautiful day you have for beach combing! Your dog is so cute and I wanna hug her. I hope you brought a nice feed with you so you can have a good boil up. That’s the life! Tfs

Those glass floats are beautiful. Here on the New England coast we don't get anything washing up on the beaches except some trash. Thanks for the video!

A friend of mine from Alaska was telling me how he used to find these as a kid. Thanks for the video!

It's amazing they're still in one piece. I love them. So much washes up on that beach, amazing and sad. Cool video, thank you for sharing, I subscribed 😁👍🏼🇳🇿

Who cares about the wind 😂 great and interesting video

Great video, thanks for sharing your day. I used to see these floating out at sea carried by currents from the far east. lots north of Midway all the way to Japan. This was in the 50's .

Wow that's a lot of glass balls to collect... Great finds. I wish we have glass balls like that that in our place.

My mother was from Georgia and loved the ocean. In our home in Idaho she painted a seaside mural. She had some sage brush sanded to look like drift wood and a bit of net connected to it with a couple of glass floats in it. It helped her remember the sea and it was a beautiful scene she made.

Those are great to find. Years ago my husband and I were living 1/2block from the ocean. We found a hatch cover from a cargo ship. It was soaked with sea water and we carried it home to dry out. It was ver heavy. Once it dried out we took it to someone who fiberglassed it and made Legs for it. It still have it, fairly decent piece of furniture

These are amazing. I'm definitely going to have to check out your site. Also, your Wonder Dog is adorable.

learn sumthin new every day! :) real cool thanks!

Your dog is so cute. This is from 6 years ago and happy to watch it. Hope you and her are still doing well

Lol hey I just love how your main form of transport is casually in a plan lol. New sub here all the way from new Zealand.

I had no idea. Beautiful. Thanks.love your dog.

I love your video and subscribed. What fun that has to be. Looking for shells is exciting but this is really exciting. I would stay there until I found all I could. Please start posting more videos. I am crazy over these glass floats. If only they could talk and tell you what they have been through and what they have seen. And think about the history of them. It’s so exciting. Thanks for a great video. There is something they make that cuts out the wind noise. Maybe look into that. Stay safe.

Those are some beautiful finds! I have never heard of these and do thank you for sharing your journey. I dont mind the wind!

Great info ignore the people being mean about the wind. They could’ve been nicer about it. Love the people who mentioned it and were kind.

When I was very young we went to Florida and were walking on the beach. We found a string with 3 of these glass balls attached to it and never could figure out what they were. Now I know but wished I would've kept them now.....very cool

Wow, I just happened upon your video as I was looking for something peaceful and uplifting to watch, and I'm so happy I found this!!! This is so interesting!!! How I wish I could hop aboard and go with you for the day! I'm curious, what do you do with all of the glass floats when you get then home? Not that it matters, really, the pleasure is likely in the finding, but I am curious. THank you!!! P.S. Your dog is adorable, Basset Hounds are such great dogs. He would have a lot of fun with my pup, I bet. Take care and safe travels!

I found one red glass ball on the beach in Neptune Beach, Fl.. I always wondered what it was. Now I know! Super cool!! Mine didn't have any netting around it though. This was about 40 years ago on the East Coast of Fl.. It is hand-blown. I'd love to find another one. 😊

Wow. So many. Looks like good fun. Thanks for sharing 🌼🌸🌼

Wow!!! What a cool find!!! I took a look at your website and look forward to ordering some things from you in the future! Thanks for sharing!!! Very cool!!!👍👍

That ever kewl , I never knew you could find glass like that on a beach lol kewl video

WOW, I've never seen such a thing. First time viewer here. Those are amazing.

These are absolutely amazing! What wonderful treasures to find! Just love them! 🌸⭕⚪🔴⭕🌊

I sure wish I was there! I would LOVE to find one! Going to check where I may possibly buy one! Never heard of tnis before, thanks for sharing! I'm jealous! ;)

Oh i would love one with a clover leaf, as thats my surname....great vid, lucky u to collect these wonderful glass floats😍 liked and subscribed...love ur dog too !😊

Interesting video, thanks for posting. I would like to see how those floats are used, do they top nets,? fishing lines?.Another thought is ,sadly thousands of these glass floats are probably in our oceans now, just bobbing aimlessly, as trash.

I'm jealous. Wish I was there. I love beachcombing 💖💖

How durable are those glass floats if you were to drop them on solid ground would they Shatter Or just crack/chip on the glass?

These are so beautiful. Thankyou for sharing.

Those are beautiful. Thank you for helping to clean up the beaches.

Roscoe P. Coltrane called, he wants his dog back! Cool video, I learned something new. Tnx.

As bob Dylan said ! The answer my friend is blowing in the wind 💨 lol 😂 great vid cool hound 😎👌

Only ones I ever remember seeing , was many years ago in Long John silvers restaurants, when they had the nautical theme with the pirate that had a peg leg and a parrot on his shoulder .. lol they had nets hanging up with this balls all over the place .

Guy puts out interesting video,(Free) gets railed on for wind noise by UKposts Cinematographers.

This is what it sounds like without buildings blocking everything would love to be on this beach with this guy fantastic job

I'm moving to Alaska!!!! Omg I could do beachcombing all day with wonder dog!!!! Love it.....

Wow! Really cool video. I've always loved floats.

Your dog is so beautiful!!! Im so sorry she passed, im sure she had a lovely life

I have fond memories of beachcombing on Kodiak Island when I visited my brother shortly before he passed I still have a Japanese handkerchief that we found on the beach it has the rising Sun and Japanese writeing.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Loved this video.

What area in Alaska are you finding them? My family has found some over the years around Bristol Bay that’s pretty cool!

Oh yes....that first beach looks to be a treasure trove !!! What do you do with all the ones you find? Do you sell any of them....I'm sure there's plenty of people who would love the opportunity to own one....me included ☺

I found a few real old ones in Cornwall UK, fishermen don't use them anymore but they are made for the tourist trade. Being glass they will get broken in gales etc and then reduce in size to pebbles. Maybe not so fast in such a sandy location, what a pity some are wrapped in horrible plastic. There's a beach along the California shore line that was the town dump, people threw their trash off the cliff and the surf took care of it. Luckily in those days most trash was degradable, anyway the bottles broke a ground down in the surf. So know there is this multi coloured pebble beach that is a feature, that can be viewed from the cliff top garden. Wish I could be remember the gardens name, but my visit was way back in the 70s.

The closest I've ever come to anything like this in the city is glass insulators from telephone poles. The most prized ones are pink due to years of exposure to the sun that has changed them from their original clear condition.

Being on the Atlantic Ocean, I fear that I will never be finding a glass float here, least not outside a antique shop.

5:00 you can see them in the water as he pans back from the plane :D

Interesting and very beautiful. Used for fishing never knew it thank you for sharing!

Came across by chance Wow really interesting thanks for the video Sue from New Zealand

so where did all that glass come from ...I've never heard of this

Thank you for responding I will check you out love your dog iam a big dog lover

I love your Bassett hound! 💚🐶👍

Wow...just found your channel! That's just fricken cool, all those floats!! Wind reminds me of Wyoming...it is what it is...do you sell the floats? Would sure love a few...always planned on doing this but 5 large brain aneurysms have pretty much grounded me. Dying but not ready to quit just yet. Love your excitement with each find!

Great vid dude, very interesting indeed , amazing how many there are, learned something new , I like that 👍🌵🌴

What awesome finds!

Cool! I love beach combing videos. Thanks.

Love your finds , love your doggie .

Now that has to rate as one of the coolest hobby businesses ever. They're awesome.

Found many large glass fishing net floats on Wake Island during 1950s and 1960s beachcombing during Crew Rest while in U S Air Force!

What do you do with all of them ! My word that's a lot. I found my out by Seattle. I can't believe the black sparkling sand

Beautiful finds, I'm happy to see that there isn't much if any plastic on the beaches. Do you take it away too if you see it?

Would love to do this, love all the different colours. If this is something we could plan , I’m in.

I found one at a charity store in Adelaide south Australia.They didn't know what it was so I got it for 50 cents

As a diver I see a lot of beaches and look for glass balls on BC west coast and I still can't find one u found the beach of glass balls wow so cool man I'll find one one day good for u man

Don't mind people who have wind for brain's.. Great video!! I love your dog!!

Awesome video Man that's a lot I was lucky enough to receive one when I was on Shemya A few years back when I worked out there At the time it was always the biggest Thing for someone to find them I remember some people telling me that they were out there 2 years And never saw one I found mine in the 1st 2 weeks They're really awesome

Hmm, I feel like I've walked past a couple of these just sitting on the beach in my life. Next time I'm near a beach I'll have to remember to keep an eye out now that I know they're worth something! lol

Uuuuh, really nice finds (even a lot of them) and a nice dog too. Congrats. Thanks a lot for making recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health.

I found a piece of a fly saucer once I couldn't find the rest because my wife threw I pretty hard!

What do you do with them ...whrn you find them