The famous "Cape May diamonds" are semi precious quartz pebbles which resemble cubic zirconia, found in abundance along the water’s edge of Sunset Beach and fairly easy to recognize. Dull and cloudy when dry, they become bright and translucent when wet. Jewelry made from the stones has been featured on the QVC Television Shopping Network, but you can take your diamond discoveries to the Sunset Beach Gift Shop and they can turn them into a brooch, pendant, or pair of earrings..Locals have even dubbed the hunched over posture of Cape May diamond-hunter the “diamond droop” - so that´s the scoop on the droop! 

Read more in Tripatini contributor Fyllis Hockman´s post Sea, Sun, Fun - and Victoriana: Escape to Another Era in Cape May, New Jersey.