Parting Shots

My last visit to Reeves Beach was accompanied by gunfire.

I'll restart my beach cleaning efforts, and this blog, in the spring.

Getting to be a struggle

the weather at the beach is getting more brutal and I'm struggling to keep up with the garbage in the wind, cold and wet. 

another day, another mess

garbage galore

This morning very high tide so I was forced to clamber over the deep driving ruts. Despite the colder weather no sign of trash abating - indeed now there are even fewer walkers and more drivers and garbage. However, beyond the wrecks the ruts were filling with seawater and there was no traffic. Here's some of what I collected, on the beach and behind the dune line.

almost warm and very messy

Yesterday was a mild day at the beach

so I was able to make a further dent in the mountain of garbage, quickly filling an entire new contractor bag:

Here is some of the stuff that I collected

Thanksgiving aftermath

I was away for a week over Thanksgiving so of course there was a lot to catch up with (though because of the cold and wind there's still lots more to do):

All this and much more went into these bags:

which in turn filled a new contractor bags: