Beady Pool

Received this lovely card from big sis yesterday..... It's made from beads found on Beady Pool beach on St Agnes where she lives. 
I've never managed to find one. Ever!
 
400 Years ago a Venetian trading ship floundered and went down among the western rocks. It sank without record sending its precious cargo of many thousands of hand made glass beads to the bottom of the sea. Ever since they have washed ashore in a small bay on the eastern aspect of the point known as Wingletang Down.
This bay is now known as Beady Pool, and is a regular haunt for visitors looking to find one of the famous Venetian beads. Some years ago a storm brought massive numbers of beads to the surface, many of these are now on display in the Museum on St Mary’s. Nowadays it is not common to find beads there, but lucky searches may still find the odd one, or a small fragment of a bead.