Post #360612 by Beachbumz on Mon, Feb 11, 2008 7:01 PM

On 2008-02-11 07:39, harro wrote:
all this talk of washed up floats... has anyone got any stories of actually beachcombing a float yourself? I'll start with mine...

during a dream-fulfilling trip to Easter Island we were rock-hopping on a quiet part of the coast after doing some amazing snorkelling in some rockpools and close-to-shore reefs when I spotted a real, washed up fishing float amongst the rocks. Unfortunately it wasn't vintage, nor glass, but the thought of finding a real washed up float on the coast of an exotic pacific island was so amazing...

unfortunately this photo is the only souvenir I could take with me as I was backpacking through south america and this thing would have taken up too much precious room in my backpack!!! Would have been cool in my soon-to-be home tiki bar though...

PS maybe I should start this in a new thread and see what other stories are out there...?

Here's my story.
About 14 years ago I was camping out near a beach called Wainapanapa black sand beach park near Hana on Maui, woke up early that morning to catch sunrise and ventured down to the beach and walla... Found a beautiful 12-14" greenish/blue float laying on the beach with heavy crustaceans around the middle part.. It looked like it had been floating out there for years...I had been wanting one of those since I had moved to the islands.. Later on I let a friend babysit it out on her lanai while I went travelin to indo for a few months and unfortunately while I was away somebody stole it... I just hope there enjoying it as much as I did..

I made a lamp the other day using a piece of bamboo about 6-8" long and 4-5" wide put a small light inside the bamboo and siliconed the bamboo to the top of the glass float, the bamboo is camouflaged by the netting,it lights up the ball beautifully.. and I didn't have to attemp to drill any holes in the ball. I was thinking of frosting it, not sure though..
aloha

[ Edited by: beachbumz 2008-02-11 19:04 ]