After another wintery week off following
January 20's visit, back again to the beach. This time also after so-called "
Superstorm Nemo" blanketed New England! But even though inland the drifts were 3-4 feet high, at the cove, the blizzard's gale-force winds blew sea into shore and blew the snow clear away.
On the other side of the causeway behind the cove, the blizzard's lingering effects still held sway. The Little River Marsh was an ice-blocked and wintery wonderland.
No surprise for how much garbage the blizzard washed up onto the shore.
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| lobster trap bait bag |
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| balloons, always balloons |
And the best sign of the storm's force:
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| New, but mauled |
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| 210 pcs of rope, about 280 ft total |
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| 131 pcs of nonrope debris |
342 finds:
- Bldg material/furniture: 1 (folding aluminum deck chair)
- Foam/styrofoam: 0
- Fishing rope/net: 210
- Fishing misc.: 40 (2 fishing line, 2 clawbands, 13 bait bags, 5 trap parts, 3 trap vents, 2 bumpers, 13 vinyl scraps)
- Food-related plastics: 19 (3 bottles (2 badly torn), 13 cup scraps, 2 wrappers, bread tag)
- Food-related glass/metal: 2 (can base, sea glass)
- Nonfood/unknown plastics: 42 (13 bag scraps, 5 latex balloons, 2 mylar, 6 balloon strings, 5 packaging scraps, 4 cable ties, rocket base, scrub pad, pressure treatment tag, flower, fish-tag tie, sock tree, vinyl upholstery scrap)
- Scrap plastics: 10 ( 4 > 1" , 6 < 1" )
- Paper/wood: 0
- Non-plastic misc./unique: 18 (8 gloves, 8 fabric scraps, sock, leather strap)
The worst part is that nearly every week there's debris that's clearly been eaten/clawed by denizens of the deep. Such as this ketchup pack:
and this fast-food coffee cup lid:
It's not just ugly. It's deadly.
Running YTD counts:
- Total pcs of litter -- 12965
- Pcs fishing rope -- 3699
- Vinyl lobster-trap scraps -- 4827
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