stray logs from the sea for resale to the lumber industry. It has been an activity since the 1880s and is still carried out under licence from the province. In popular culture Both the recreational and utilitarian aspects of beachcombing or “wrecking” were celebrated in the film The Wrecking Season, an award-winning film that portrays playwright Nick Darke’s passion for beachcombing on the coast of Cornwall, UK. A popular Canadian family television drama, The Beachcombers, focused on a two-man business salvaging logs from beaches in late-twentieth-century British Columbia. In the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service'', Bond gets two weeks leave, and when Moneypenny asks him where he is off to, he replies: "just some place to laze about. Beachcombing". See also Drift whale Message in a bottle Strandloper Wrecking (shipwreck) References http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov11macro/JosephineWyman/JW_SeaGlassArticle.pdf Collecting Main Beaches