Sunday 12th saw our bi-annual beach blitz at Calgary Bay,

Calgary Bay

As ever we had a wonderful turn out from locals and visitors including campers in the campsite. With an added incentive of their being cream eggs to find, the ‘blitzers’ heading out in cheery groups across the bay to gather the residue of the storms.
As ever, there was a horrific amount of fisherman’s twine and residue, which left in the sea, would have taken over a 100 years to decompose and by then potentially having threatened the life of many of our sea creatures. Below is an image from the North Atlantic Garbage patch.

The North Atlantic Garbage Patch

It is an area of man-made debris found floating in the middle of the Atlantic and estimated to be hundreds of kilometres across in size, with a density of over 200,000 pieces of debris per square kilometre. So next time you think of throwing something out and not into a bin and disposing of it responsibly think of the effect it is having on our environment and our wildlife, whether it be land or sea and lets not make the North Atlantic Garbage patch any bigger.

So for our efforts at Calgary, we managed to gather 2 trailer loads of rubbish, upgrade some of the picnic tables, clear the camping area of some of the seaweed brought in by the storm tides and find the hidden cream eggs. I did hear an adult whom had found a small glove belong to small child (also beach cleaning), well a 9 year old, trying to bribe him to give him his glove back for a cream egg, thankful said small child held onto his egg and got his glove back.(All  in good fun!)

The afternoon ended with a very sociable refreshment session, with tea, coffee, juice, biscuits, crisps and home baking, very much enjoyed by all.

Tea time

Thanks everyone for all your hard work!

Watch out for more fun events during the summer months and visit our events calendar to see what is on.

: ) Jan And Tikka!