Items on the beach overnight

[Miss Kitty]

To to the owner of the blue tent left on the beach at BMB...

REMOVE IT OR LOSE IT!!! :nono1:
I am watching you.

 

[Kurt]

Thanks for reminding me.

Peanut shells, lemon wedges, watermelon rinds, other food items, and half-burned charcoal are not OK to leave on the beach just because they are bio degradable. They are still garbage.

 

[scooterbug44]

Most "bio-degradable" items take YEARS to break down, so unless they are in your compost heap, they're trash!

 

[Smiling JOe]

Is it really a big deal to leave two beach chairs and your umbrella out there at night so you don't have to tote them down there every day??? We stay on a private part of the beach and have in past years left them out there until we found that someone was sitting in them at night and drinking beer and then leaving their beer bottles by our chairs. Who knows what else they may have been doing. After that, we started taking them back up every evening. But we left them out during the day as we went back out there later in the day.

That isn't all that people do to the chairs left on the beach. Yes, it is a big deal to leave out two chairs and an umbrella. Perhaps, if there were only two people in SoWal, then it wouldn't be a big deal, but ...

 

[Jdarg]

Alright, gonna try to to get this discussion out of lunacy and back into productiveness.

Grayton looked great last night- only 2 tents up when we were there, which is amazing since there were quite a few people there yesterday afternoon. Last week, there were at least 10-12 tents, with one being a semi-permanent boat storage type structure.

I'm thinking that the improvement is due to a combo of things- first, the rental agencies making the "Move it or Lose it" warning available to their customers. Very proactive for the agency employees' mental health, because you know when people's things are confiscated, the first phone call will be an irate one to the rental agency wondering why their crap n the beach was removed.

Second, the season seems to be drying up quickly. Last week seemed half as crowded as the week before, and so on. Yesterday morning, we were one of 3 small groups on the beach until at least 10 am, and it was a beautiful Sunday morning. Later, it looked like more locals than visitors.

Trash was a tad lighter, although this weekend's haul was 2 chairs (one broken), 2 really ugly pairs of flip flops, and one brand new net, in addition to the regular garbage.

Last week, I happened to be standing near 2 tents that had been tagged, and overheard the occupants discussing the tags. From what I could hear of their conversations, they honestly hadn't given much thought before about leaving their stuff at the beach. They were not upset or mad- they just needed to be educated a bit. After talking to one family, they were all about "doing it right" in the future.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Yeah, I love critters seacrestkristi, and I have read the turtles posts throughout this thread, and the only turtle nesting area that we see anyway near us is down towards Pinnacle Port and it is roped off with a sign stating such.

I don't understand your point. Are you suggesting that the signs and ropes are put up to inform the turtles where they can nest?

 

[Jdarg]

I don't understand your point. Are you suggesting that the signs and ropes are put up to inform the turtles where they can nest?

Their OB/GYN tells them the location of the nearest "birthing facility".

 

[IRIETYMES]

We have been up and down the beaches of SoWal for over 30 years and noticed the seemingly slow increase in beach crap over the years, but most recently the prolireation of those tarps and tents and leftover rustung beach chairs and umbrellas has just been awful to look at. An ordinance on the books and some beach-by-beach signage would certainly help and if it didn't, then the beach patrol could clear the beaches of that trash whenever possible, or volunteers could certainly perform that same task authorized by that ordinance. We like to see the beach, not piles of rusting, unraveling plastic beach chairs and torn umbrellas, sagging tarps and shelters, flaping tents.

Thanks for the space. Peace, Love and Truth.

 

[Lady D]

I don't understand your point. Are you suggesting that the signs and ropes are put up to inform the turtles where they can nest?

No, SJ, I am making the point that they have that roped off there to let people know there is a turtle nesting spot there of course. Not hard to figure out I don't think. But I've yet to see any turtles at night coming up on the beach to nest the times we did ever walk the beach at night. I am sure there is a certain time of the year that they nest the most whenever that may be I do not know.

 

[Smiling JOe]

No, SJ, I am making the point that they have that roped off there to let people know there is a turtle nesting spot there of course. Not hard to figure out I don't think. But I've yet to see any turtles at night coming up on the beach to nest the times we did ever walk the beach at night. I am sure there is a certain time of the year that they nest the most whenever that may be I do not know.

Maybe you don't see the turtles because they are scared away by people, or maybe they come ashore in the wee hours of the morning, after all the people have gone to bed. The turtles we do have are few in numbers, so you would be lucky to see one, even swimming in the water, and your chances of seeing a female turtle, on the rare occasion when they come ashore, would be even less. I've lived here several years, and I'm often paddling on the Gulf. In my years living here, I've seen sea turtles on only four occasions. If you visit here only once or twice a year, you are extremely lucky if you see a sea turtle.