Today, the marina hosted a clean up day. Volunteers got in their dinghys and drove the mangrove shoreline picking up trash. Jeff and I chose to do Whiskey Creek since I have such a love of that area. There really wasn’t much trash per se, it was mostly fishing line and rope. Lots and lots of rope. As in 2- 35 gallon trash bags full of rope.

We had wanted this to be a family event. Lisa had to work though, so Jaimie and Christie went to the assignment area with us. As they stood there, another teenager friend, Chris, showed up and the three of them were quickly assigned to do “Beer Can Beach”. This was the only beach that the volunteers were allowed to walk on due to the turtle hatchlings. When Jeff and I finished Whiskey Creek, we motored over to the kids area and were shocked to see the volume of garbage on this one little beach. Bags and bags of debris were picked up, and still there was more. Over 20 baseball caps and vast quantities of flip flops rounded out the flotilla of beer cans, water bottles, and unidentified plastic bits. I was pretty proud of my kids work ethic, and the great job they did.