REPORT: June 9, 2010 - Wednesday - 4:30pm

OBSERVED: trash scattered throughout a lot of seaweed and in the water - fair

COLLECTED: seaweed, sea sponge, black water beetle (deceased)


The tide was in and the chop was heavy enough to to not be able to safely take T. OCEAN out. So we ended up playing along the shoreline. Within the 30 square feet or so of area we navigated, I picked up:

9 bottle caps
4 plastic bottles
1 beer can
3 straws
2 plastic utensils
5 bits of plastic
1 plastic bag
some wrappers

Much of was literally washing ashore as I stood there. It was almost as if a party had just taken place (bottles, straws, etc.), and it it was time to clean up. Like today, the ocean - she was cleanin' herself - and it all was hangin' out there on the shoreline.

The last thing that washed up was a small, foam soccer ball - a lot like the one we lost out in the waves a few months back. The ocean gives, and the ocean takes and then gives back something altogether new. But it's up to her as to when and how and what it will look like. It's not the first time we have lost something out there, only to have it replaced beautifully some time later. Seems like a fair and yet mysterious system to me.

Either way - T. OCEAN happily brought his latest "present" home, delighted.


Your,
Little Mama Sea Keeper