What is that floating in the Marina?

We get to play a sort of game nearly every day here at the marina. What is that floating thing? Given the different tides and winds our marina often has some random stuff floating. The sad thing is it is often just trash. With Earth Day this week, its a good time to think a bit more about this stuff.

Ok, it isn’t much of a game, but often you cant tell what anything is as its just barely on the surface, and its a guessing game until you can get closer to it. What is it, where did it come from, and should I get it out? Though it usually ends in sadness as we realize its just some sort of human garbage, but we will take any sort of entertainment we can get.

The best ones are the ones that take some time to determine. Several extra steps, or walk down another pier. Then once you finally start to see it it disappears or moves. Alligators, snakes, fish. These are always exciting to see.

Then there are the worst. Several dead animals, usually fish, but we’ve seen opossums, birds (hopefully never a human, but its has happened). Then a few times since we’ve been here we’ve had mass die offs of little fish, thousands of little silver fish just covering the water for a few days. That’s gets a bit smelly.

Most of the time though, its just a log, or a palm leaf, or more often than not, just some random trash. If we can reach it, we will usually pull it out and trow it a way, but it seems like such a little help when every day many more items keep floating by.

For Earth Day, that should be every day, can we please be conscious of what we throw out and where it goes? We’ve written before about reduction, lets keep doing that too.