REPORT: July 6, 2010 - Tuesday - 7pm

OBSERVED: Quiet. Trash!!!! a lot of it!

COLLECTED: unusual sea sponges of various colors, sea shell, curious bone (fish) cartilage, coral, seaweed


It was a gorgeous evening despite the earlier rain. I collected and threw away a very full bag of ALL KINDS of debris. It was understandable since the holiday brought in extra visitors. But, finding the torn up scraps from the fireworks littered right on the shoreline also demonstrates that the basic beach cleanup can't get everything - that includes what's in the water (plastic with hanger, bait fish bags, pampers bags, etc.) So much plastic.

With or without the rubbish, we enjoy the time together in the water - T. OCEAN swimming between us and learning the timing of the waves.


Your,
Little Mama Sea Keeper

REPORT: June 2 - 3rd, 2010 - Tuesday & Wednesday

No news.

Thunderstorms and lightening keep us away from the beach.

T. Ocean gets super stir-crazy & wired. I get sleepy and blue.

I finally received a return email from both Surfrider and Volunteer Florida. Turns out, Volunteer Florida isn't organizing anything yet -- "Because oil has not reached Florida’s shores, volunteer opportunities with the oil spill remain limited."

A weird response considering their own website shows various FL Counties beginning to organize and plan ahead for clean-up. All except Palm Beach County, where I live. Funny how this is one the wealthiest Counties in Florida, and there was no sign of early organizing efforts for beach clean up. With that in mind, I contacted Surfrider who is heading up efforts for Marin County. They had some information on early efforts and are a reliable resource for coastal clean-ups and keeping tabs on the overall health of our oceans.

I can't help but wonder if FL couldn't be better prepared? I keep getting the feeling that there isn't any sense of urgency that we may be seeing some oil here. Only in that we're loosing tourists' dollars. We'll see. For now, I'll do my own little part and clean what's in front of me -- helps me sleep at night.