A sunny day with lively seas. An industrial-scale operation is being undertaken beyond the barricades and the bags are multiplying, lying in formation beneath cliff.
It is low tide and a large heap of sand is piled up just by the water - has this been imported for filling the bags or has it been collected at the site? Will it be used before the tide washes back up the beach??
There are signs of a fresh earth fall from the cliffs north of the works.
An unusual amount of seaweed remains at the high water mark.
The Coke can washed up with the weed (an all too frequent sight sadly) reminds me of the often forgotten global benefits of an Enviro-marketing TM approach to brand marketing... Once washed up, never forgotten.
Among the items I collect is an ancient Eden Vale tub and a 'Fleet Foot' rubber sandal, made in Canada. An internet search turns up the ads below. Fleet Foot was a brand of Dominion Rubber. The rubber shoes were manufactured from 1911 at St Jerome, Quebec, forty miles north of Montreal. In their heyday in the 1950s, 37000 rubber shoes were produced all over the world. The newspaper ad is from the Montreal Gazette, June 11th, 1924! I would love to know the age and history of my new old sandal...
low tide: 09.21 hrs 0.6m; high tide 16.18 hrs 2.6m
time of arrival: 10.07 hrs
weather: sunny, wind SE 21mph, temperature 14cmarine litter: mostly larger pieces and heavier plastics; a headless teddy bear, three sanitary towels and, unusually, no identifiable foreign packing.
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