Turtle Treasures

We headed to Erie on Saturday morning for my annual birthday weekend.  It was sunny but very cold and windy.  We headed straight to Presque Isle and checked things out.  The west end of the bay was ice covered, but we soon realized that the rest of it for the most part was thawed and waves were rolling with the high winds.  You could see the lake frozen as far as the eye could see down the North Shore.  Some winters the ice dunes are so high you can’t see over them, but this year they are smaller and formed at the shore line and beyond out into the lake.  It is a something to see with the sun blazing off all the ice.

John and I bundled up a bit, not near enough and took a walk to look around and search for a treasure or two.  We found a few tiny pieces right away, just enough to get you going.  But it was way too cold, with the wind chill they said it was 9 degrees out!  Brrrrrrrrrrrrr it was cold!

We headed over to the city side and checked another place for treasures and then we went to the Home and Garden show at the Bayfront Convention Center.  It was fun! I was glad to see how things are laid out at a show, especially considering I’d like to vendor at the 2009 Sea Glass Festival there in October.

Sunday we headed to Presque Isle Gallery Coffeehouse to drop off some “Turtle Treasures” and check the inventory there.  And then it was a bit warmer for beach combing by the ice dunes, but not much.  It was wild!  We never have found beach glass much in the winter before, so every little piece we found was a hoot!  Usually the beach is so frozen over and actually it’s best if it is that way.  If the dunes form on the shoreline and beach, they then protect the beach from erosion by wind and waves.  But this year again the beach, for the most part is exposed to all the winter’s  winds, and soon coming spring time waves!

All in all we came home with a nice little pile of treasures but we are anxious as always to get back up there in a m0nth when we open up “camp’ and hunt for more!  I hope we are beach combing then in a bit warmer weather too!