Beachcombing seldom yields anything more thrilling than an odd shell or a piece of sea glass, which is part of the reason why some types of discoveries continue to halt people's progress decades after they occur. A peaceful barrier island off the coast of Georgia, Little St. Simons Island is the kind of spot where tourists spend their days searching for precisely that kind of little, ordinary treasure, meandering along the shoreline with no hope of discovering anything more than a lovely shell to take home.
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