After a long day of work it felt great to head up to the North Shore for a last minute sunset beach cleanup! So satisfying in fact, that I kept cleaning late into the night and made a virtual clean sweep of that stretch of coastline at Kahuku. This is what Fridays look like at 36 lol...! Note the obvious bite marks on this plastic bottle from fish mistaking this plastic as food. So tragic...
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Cleaning the beaches out at remote Kahuku yesterday. Ghost nets, buoys, and plastic as far as the eye can see...out at the ends of the Earth, witnessing the end of the Earth... Had a great time cleaning up and even found a perfectly good knife buried in the sand. Afterwards I met some local fisherman who are in their 60s and 70s and we talked story about the changes they've seen to this once pristine strip of shoreline. I wonder how bad it'll be when I'm 60... Kalei and Al had the awesome opportunity yesterday to spend the day teaching middle school students how to build sand sifters, discussing ocean plastics and ghost nets, and hopefully inspiring them to be better stewards of the environment. Its days like yesterday that make it all worth it!!! 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. |
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