 Visiting with old friends and cleaning beaches on the North Shore of Oahu. This sure is the life!
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 Nalo beach cleaning. Good for the environment, great for the soul!  The end of a beautiful day of trash pickin'. Hit numerous spots along Oahu's Windward Coast and along the secluded Kahuku shoreline on the North Shore. So incredibly grateful for these moments, this island, this ocean, this world, and this life. Here's to preserving these - and even better - moments for our children and grand children.  Cleaning the beach on the North Shore of Oahu at Kahuku Point. Got to see the newly born baby Hawaiian Monk Seal and was glad to see signage up to keep people back. It is critical to do everything possible not to disturb these critically endangered animals under any circumstances!   Got in a quick beach cleanup between work today with these two total legends! Onshore winds are bringing in a ton of microplastic and plenty of man o'war! Watch out folks!  If you havent already, please write to your Representatives and express your support for bans on unnecessary single use plastics, stop consuming straws, plastic utentils, and plastic bottled water. While so many cities, states, and even nations are making strides its still not enough. We need to accomplish more and we need to do so at a faster rate.
 After some beach cleanups we like to trace objects back to their source to get a better sense for the flow of plastics across the ocean and out of plain old curiosity. Did you know that most plastic washing up on Hawaii's shores takes an average of 5 to 7 years to reach us? In this case, this plastic container traveled 4.279 miles from Guatemala having been produced at Plastimax and being sold under the Malher spice company label.  Another fabulous beach cleanup on Oahu's serenly beautiful and desolate North Shore. Was treated to a magnificent sunset, saw multiple Hawaiian Monk Seals (the one pictured was enormous and was taken from far away with a very long zoom...it is critical to not disturb these extremely endangered (approx. just 1,400 left on Earth) mammals as even minor disturbances will cause them to skip an entire mating season (for example)), and cleaned up and hauled out several ghost nets and buckets of plastic. Please carefully consider your choices as a consumer and realize that day after day I see firsthand the ravages of our lazy and overly convenience-oriented lifestyles, and its killing our oceans, and in turn, ourselves. Please make an effort to support bans on single use plastics, buy and support local farmers and fisherman, and for goodness sake, grab a bucket and clean a beach!  Awesome beach cleanup today with a truly great crew! Grab some buddies and some buckets and get after it folks!  Kalei's Birthday Beach Cleanup was a massive success! Many buckets collected, several great and happy volunteers, and much fun was had by all! |
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