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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanApr 23, 10 Comments Off
Good evening all, someone asked me today if we ever see trash on the reefs here?? The answer to that is yes!! The worst place we have seen is under and around the piers, those areas are as trashed as it gets! Almost everywhere has tires and we call those “Tire Coral” and as you see here a big truck inner tube and these we call “Tube Sponges”. Tires and tubes, bottles, cans and the worst thing, fishing line is one of those constant reminders that man has pretty much trashed this planet. And the real down side to all this junk is that it will never break down so year after year we see the same o’l stuff laying around at many dive sites. The good news is that the folks from the World famous Dive Bus Hut along with other local dive shops have an annual reef/beach clean-up day once or twice a year and this Sunday is one of those days. Mark said this year his focus was to try and remove or cut as much fishing line as they could as it is wrapped around so many sponges and so many corals! The reef at Pier Baai used to be covered in tires and bottles but now one really has to search to find new trash, that’s what a team of reef cleaning volunteers can do. Also some of this stuff has been down there so long that it now has creatures using it as homes or as you see here little corals and sponges growing onto the side of it so you can never remove it. You would do more damage than good removing this tube so it’s best just to leave it there and hopefully divers will just learn from it.
Today was a really hot and very humid!! The puppies continue to adjust to their new home and we are again really enjoying them even if they are peeing machines. Off to bed, Barry
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