Coastal Clean Up Day

Richard volunteered us for the Coastal Clean Up Day Saturday. We woke early and drove to Haulover Creek, one of multiple sites designated as clean up sites. Volunteers braved snakes, spiders, gnats and the heat to pick up the trash deposited by people that don't give a damn about Mother Earth. We arrived and immediately put on plastic gloves and filled trash bags of everything from beer bottles (too many to count) to old fishing line. By mid morning Haulover Creek was again prestine and the 8 of us volunteers posed proudly by a roadside pile of tires and trash bags. The total haul from all the coastal clean up sites was 5500 pounds not counting about 100 tires. Sadly, Richard and Michael went back to the same site this morning around dawn and found that it had already been spoiled with new trash! They launched the kayaks and enjoyed a great paddle down the winding creek, catching several fish, though they threw them all back. Here are some of the pictures I took yesterday.