Coastal Clean-Up Day

Today is Coastal Clean-Up Day and we went out this morning to do our part. I think that it's a national thing, and in our area Save Our Shores was in charge of it. We got there to sign our waivers and get started, but first we got a hilarious safety talk fromsome fourth or fifth grade kids. Some of the things they informed us of were:
"Don't touch or clean-up dead animals. They belong at the beach."
"Keep your gloves on 24/7" (I laughed out loud a little)
"Don't climb on the rocks or they will crumble and you will fall."

and, my favorite:
"We don't have a first aid kid. So, if you get hurt, we're not responsible...you can't sue...we're only kids."

After that, we got our bags and got to work. There were a few fights over who got to pick up a given cigarette butt, and a little complaining about it being cold (it was WAY colder than we were ready for), but other than that, the girls did great. Abby found (and later lost) a plastic gold coin. Haley found a stick and a rock (she always does, no matter where we go).




Two notes: 1)Seth is on my back (if you were wondering what he was doing during our morning. 2)The paper I am holding is a tally sheet they gave us. There were all sorts of categories, such as food wrappers, cigarette butts, and light bulbs (seriously), and we were supposed to tally what we found. We tried to hit as many categories as we could. We pretty much only got about four categories, missing ones such as appliances, lobster traps, and pieces of boats.