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| Just a couple of trashy girls ready for our new adventure! |
Well, the weather here in Monterey has been pretty stinky but I thought I'd do a brief introduction post while the sun battles with the rain and fog. So, what's the deal with this Daily Ocean thing? My inspiration for this blog actually came from a fellow California resident who decided that everyday should be a beach clean-up day, and that's what she did! Sara Bayles, of the original
Daily Ocean, has now nearly completed her 365 non-consecutive days of picking up trash from a local beach and I am attempting to do the same. My local beach is about a five minute drive from my house and (very conveniently) on my way home from work, so each day (almost) I will stop and pick up trash for 20 minutes, photograph the experience, and share my findings/adventures with all of you! The goal is to continue this for 365 non-consecutive days and see how much trash I've been able to keep out of the ocean. So far Sara has collected over 1,000 pounds of trash which is a pretty spectacular accomplishment! Imagine if we all kept 1,000 pounds of trash from floating out into the ocean?! There wouldn't be very much of a marine debris problem, I'll tell you what!
The motivation for this project came from my Global Field Program at Miami University (total awesomeness by the way check it out
here)-- this is the action component of my semester study of debris accumulation on California beaches. I actually found over 500 pieces of trash on four different beaches, and that was from collecting on only two occasions, can you imagine?! The majority of what I found was plastic-- food wrappers, utensils, bags, etc. I also found tons and tons of cigarettes which was extremely annoying. So anywho, thanks for stopping by, and seeing that the sun may actually be winning the battle today I'm hoping to get out to the beach and pick up some junk. See you tomorrow!
