Collection Report Jan 2, 2012

Happy January. January 2, 11:30AM.

The new year picked up where December left off. Ridiculously warm, sunny, busy, and not at all winter-like. And the coastal weirdness continued as well --  a weird flux of dead seas, dogwalkers, offshore winds, seafloor rocks/shells, and almost zero surface flotsam of any kind.

One of the few bits of debris this week; the "wrackline" is just
dried reeds blown down from the dunes

Straight into it. Zone N:

35 finds:

• Building materials: 12 (5 asphalt, 5 brick, 1 tile, 1 roof shingle)
• Foam/Styrofoam: 4
• Fishing misc.: 3 (rope scrap, trap runner -- put in trash at beach, trap bumper)
• Food-related plastics: 1 (straw wrapper)
• Food-related metal/glass: 4 (3 cap scraps, bottlecap)
• Nonfood/unknown plastics: 2 (o-ring, baggie scrap)
• Cigarette filters/plastics: 5 (3 cigarettes, 2 packaging)
• Paper/wood: 1 (wood chunk)
• Misc./unique: 3 (2 leather shoe soles, rubber scrap)

Zone S:

15 finds:

• Building materials: 4 (3 asphalt, 1 concrete)
• Foam/Styrofoam: 6
• Fishing misc.: 1 (rope scrap)
• Food-related plastics: 0
• Food-related metal/glass: 1 (can scrap)
• Nonfood/unknown plastics: 0
• Cigarette filters/plastics: 2
• Paper/wood: 0
• Misc./unique: 1 (rubber glove)

The dream continues.