Peter_C
Contributor
Some of the hard core club member of North Coast Divers spent the weekend camping on the remote Sonoma Coast of Northern California. Here we have no cell service :shocked2: few people, mountain lions, and great white sharks. It is one my favorite places to scuba dive. The storms of late have been BIG with massive swells and really high tides. Our beaches that had remained much the same for years, were altered this year. Below you will see the pictures that tell the story with some captions above them.
We started our trek from Fort Ross. The goal was to hike to Reef campground/beach.
You can see how beautiful our coast here is.
After hiking for awhile we came to Reef Beach. This is a state park and closed due to California's budget cuts. The only way in is to hike.
Here Don is picking up garbage, with Odie on the right, who has the blue bag, and Erik in the back ground. Odie scores major points for bringing bags to put the plastic garbage in.
We ran around for only a short time collecting garbage and didn't even get 1/8 of what was on the beach. Since there was no where to dump the garbage we had to pack it all the way back out and could not carry much more. I talked to the park ranger and he said he would let us get a pickup truck into the gates if we wanted to perform another cleanup at a later time.
I pulled a few common items to show that this is stuff all of us use and discard on a daily basis. We may be good ourselves about throwing stuff away, but what about our friends and other people? Do they know about the issues that we humans are creating? Lets work towards educating everyone we can and try to slow this destruction of the earth down. It starts by picking up other peoples garbage one piece at a time. I call it my good deed for the day!
We started our trek from Fort Ross. The goal was to hike to Reef campground/beach.
You can see how beautiful our coast here is.
After hiking for awhile we came to Reef Beach. This is a state park and closed due to California's budget cuts. The only way in is to hike.
Here Don is picking up garbage, with Odie on the right, who has the blue bag, and Erik in the back ground. Odie scores major points for bringing bags to put the plastic garbage in.
We ran around for only a short time collecting garbage and didn't even get 1/8 of what was on the beach. Since there was no where to dump the garbage we had to pack it all the way back out and could not carry much more. I talked to the park ranger and he said he would let us get a pickup truck into the gates if we wanted to perform another cleanup at a later time.
I pulled a few common items to show that this is stuff all of us use and discard on a daily basis. We may be good ourselves about throwing stuff away, but what about our friends and other people? Do they know about the issues that we humans are creating? Lets work towards educating everyone we can and try to slow this destruction of the earth down. It starts by picking up other peoples garbage one piece at a time. I call it my good deed for the day!
