It’s never too late to have your own Coastal Cleanup

Beautiful Lake Del Valle with garbage in the foreground

The California Coastal Commission held its 24th Annual Coastal Clean Up Day last Saturday.   Volunteers across the state gathered at over 750 locations to help pick up trash and debris. The items found ranged from a basic beer bottle to the more exotic sticks of dynamite.

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According to the SF Gate website, preliminary reports indicated that 55,634 volunteers participated, and they collected 742,154 pounds of garbage, — an average of 13.34 pounds of garbage per person.

Great job, but come on California, we can do better next year.  The *25th Annual Coastal Clean Up Day for 2009* will be held on September 19th.

Again – Coastal Clean Up -  Next Year  – 2009 -  September 19th.  Mark your calendars and join in. If you just can’t wait, then this weekend will be OK too.

OK.  Now for the confession.   Paulano missed the cleanup on Saturday. But that did not stop him and his family from going out on Sunday tidying up a bit.  Our chosen shoreline was at Del Valle Regional Park, just south of Livermore, California. Armed with nothing more than four pairs of gloves, we filled 3 big bags full of garbage.  We didn’t weigh them, but 70 pounds seems like a pretty good guess.   Our most interesting items were a sleeping bag,  and a surprising number of tiny glass bait jars.

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My wife and I had a great time.  However, the girl’s experience was marred by inadequate footwear and a group of bees that seemed to prefer the scent of children to that of adults.  Maybe next year we can talk them into some shoe laces and a can of insect repellent.

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