On May 19th, we worked with a team of volunteers mobilized by the Resurrection Bay Conservation Alliance to clean up some of Seward's beaches. And there was a lot to clean up!
We put our boots on, crawled into the stream and came back with dozens of beer bottles and cans, plastic bags and wrappers, and much more. Everything that ends up in this stream will make its way to the ocean where animals like sea birds, sea otters, and whales could ingest the trash or become entangled by it. You don't have to be near the ocean for this to be the case. All animals require freshwater in one way or another and will frequent streams, creek, rivers, lakes, ponds, etc.. It is important that trash and pollution stay out in order to have healthy wild animal populations wherever you are.
It took over 2 hours and 2 people to clean all the nails and glass pieces out of this one fire pit! I don't know about you, but I like to walk the beach barefoot, but if you had tried to walk barefoot on this beach, you would have ended up needing stitches!
Our crew worked hard for hours to clean up two beaches. And we found some interesting things:
Someone lost a shoe . . .
. . . and their golf bag carrier.
Don't forget the frozen yogurt maker!
And . . .
perhaps the evidence of a romantic beach proposal gone wrong?
All in all, it was hard work but the results were amazing! We'd like to thank Resurrection Bay Conservation Alliance for organizing this endeavor and all the volunteers that spent their Saturday picking up trash. The beaches looked great after we were done!
You can help too! Ensure that your trash makes it into a trash can. If you see trash on the ground, pick it up and throw it away!
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