On Sunday R and I played tourists and found Kumukuma Beach aka Donkey Beach. It's only a short distance from our home and would deem perfect for my mission.
Suppose I should tell you a bit more about this mission...
When we lived on Molokai a few years ago, my hubby, seal pal Diane and I did a weekly monk seal monitoring trek to Laau Pt. This hike is approximately 8 miles round trip, with amazing vistas and we would often see a dozen seals along the way. Unfortunately, we also encountered vase amounts of rubbish and plastics. Not only is this trash ugly and dirty it's causing problems for marine life, birds and other wildlife. They are often found entangled, feeding it to their young and the plastics are poisoning them. One day we decided to take a trash bag with us every time we went out to collect as much trash as we could handle packing out. So every week we hauled out someone else's trash and debris that washed ashore. At first it appeared we weren't making a dent but after numerous trips, believe or not we could see the difference. My mission is to continue that practice here on Kauai and Donkey Beach looks the perfect place to begin.
Looking south on Donkey Beach
Some of the beautiful driftwood on the beach
and the not so beautiful plastic
My goal is to take my 5 gallon bucket and pick up junk until it's full.
Took me about 1 hour to collect this bucket full.
I love the beach and if you ever come visit I want the beach to be beautiful.
So once or twice a week this will be me...
A woman on a Mission!
Note: Here on Kauai there are at least 2 groups (that I know of) called Surfriders and
Net Patrol that do weekly debris cleanup and I plan to join their efforts.
