The weather has been pretty bleak, but when it cleared up this afternoon I took the opportunity to go for a walk as I was having a bout of 'cabin' fever.
Some beautiful flowers in one of the gardens down the road.
The track through the woods is quite flooded in places with running water.
Fungi growing on a fallen trunk.
Water was also flowing down the hillside to the beach, although not the best photo to illustrate this.
Part of the old harbour now known as 'Spindlers Follies'.
It was lovely to spend some time on the beach.
What was not so lovely is what I saw littered all over the beach.
So much rubbish has been washed up!
It is just disgraceful, what people are just throwing in the sea and oceans.
I forgot my rubbish bag today, but if I get a chance to go for a walk tomorrow I will go back down to the beach and pick up some of the rubbish. It makes me so sad to see this. I've never seen so much rubbish on a beach before. Does it come from the ferries that regularly go past? Fishing boats? Just shameful.
This log was washed up and the poor shellfish have dried out and died.
We help out in our local beach clean, but no matter how many times we clean, the beach is always littered.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad isn't it? :(
DeleteA lovely walk...and shameful rubbish..although some of the flotsam and jetsam can be useful!
ReplyDeleteBeing down by the sea is so wonderfully good for the mind as well as the exercise the body gets. The waste and rubbish that washes up, though, I find quite distressing.
ReplyDeleteThe amount of rubbish dumped in the sea is just shocking. In fact the amount of rubbish just dumped is shocking.
ReplyDeleteMeant to say that apart from the rubbish it looked a lovely walk.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a wonderful walk but like you I was saddened to see so much rubbish. There are regular clean ups locally but I often wonder where it all comes from in the first place.
ReplyDeleteLorraine! As always, you take the most magnificent photos. I particularly like the one (10th one down, I believe--above the caption "It was lovely to spend some time on the beach") of the waves crashing against the rock. John
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteBeach litter seems sadly to be a growing problem everywhere. I knew a lady who used to walk along the beach each evening after a sunny day, collecting clothing and footwear carelessly left behind. She didn't want to see it entering our oceans and adding to the rubbish, and used to donate the items to the local charity shop.
ReplyDelete