Beach Cleanup

Today we participated in a cleanup of one of the beaches on the east side of the island. It is disheartening to see the quantity of plastic that washes up onto the shore of beaches in the Bahamas. When we are alone on the beach the thought of picking up trash feels overwhelming. When we pick up plastic with cruisers from three other boats, as we did today, it feels more manageable. The project had been started a few weeks ago by cruisers on two boats with children. They collected the plastic into a large pile. Today we returned to continue the job and focus on some of the smaller pieces of plastic—so many bottle caps!  Pieces of wood were added to the now two piles and they will be burned when the wind dies down, possibly tomorrow. 

This beach looks so much better now that it has been cleaned up. 

View as we walked back to the west side of the island. Breeze On is second from the right.