It's not just trash that's the problem on the beach and I'd venture to say the trash is less visible in the whole.
If you truly want to have clean beaches that folks can take a morning stroll on, and children can play in the surf, then you must include the beach chairs left because it broke or the owners just saw no value in toting it back to their home state. It'll be the tents left when folks leave because they maybe really believe someone else will claim it and it will service another family.
If we must bring turtles into the mix, they can quite readily crawl around or over most plastic pails, broken shovels and beach towels. The do have four wheel drive. What they don't have is reverse and when they encounter a huge hole or tent stakes, they're stuck until they get help.
Besides the turtles, there are the many who like to be on the beach at night who shouldn't have to worry about stumbling into a hole or tripping over wire holding up a tent. It just takes away from the experience.
Besides the folks wanting access to the beach, there is also the need for access for emergency vehicles. Some beach areas are so narrow the TDC can't run their trucks once people are on the beach. Now imagine an emergency requiring access to that same stretch of beach only to find tents chairs and large holes to contend with to get to a victim. This doesn't matter whether it's day or night, but at night, they may not even see that huge hole until it creates additional victims.
Minnie, you PM'd me about how many on this thread may be turtle walkers. I'm a walker and absolutely proud to be counted among them. It gives something back to an area I consider myself very blessed to be a part of. I'm not aware of any others posting being walkers. Anyone else care to stand up and