Keep our Shorelines clean!!
September 16, 2017 was International Coastal Cleanup day started by the Ocean Conservancy nearly 30 years ago. Even though this is an annual event for some “coastal cleanup” is an everyday event for Lissette and I as we walk and run one of the most beautiful and pristine coastlines in the world within the Mauna Lani Resort. The photos above are just one day’s “treasure” of “opala” or trash in what is as much of our daily routine as our early morning walk and run. I also included a photo of a plastic hard hat I found at the shoreline which floated here from Japan.
Plastic, opala (trash) is usually the most evident in and around our shoreline but I’ve found glass bottles, oil filters, fishing nets and other debris while scuba diving, surfing or paddling. I remember finding a plastic beach ball floating 1/2 mile off shore riding my stand up paddle board and a large, ice cooler another time. Yes-I chased down both and hauled them to shore with me:)
We do all of this with joy, never condemning silently the source of...
