Despite our worst fears, the beach is cleaned up and beautiful again. According to a few different news sources, soldiers, volunteers and other unnamed parties contributed to the clean-up. There were bags and bags of the gloppy oil piled up waiting for the trucks to take them away and we happened to be there for the pick-up, as well, so by the time we left you couldn't even tell there'd been an oil spill, save for a bit of the oil globs here and there. We'd brought along some heavy plastic bags and a large covered bucket to pick up oil, if need be, but since it had been done before we got there, we used the plastic bags to pick up trash instead.
It really is a lovely beach and we'll probably make it our weekend get-away a few more times. It's so close (only a 20 minute drive). It's still kind of spendy to get there, so we can't do it too much ($10/rt via taxi).
The beach is pretty different from the Oregon beach, though. The sand is coarser (more like salt crystals) and there were tons of shells. Where the waves broke near the shore, the ground was covered with shells, but we managed to pick quite a few up from where they'd been left on the shore. We found those corkscrew kind and lots of clam shells and these really flat glass-like shells. I feel a science project coming on with the investigation and identification of them. :)
Despite our worst fears, the beach is cleaned up and beautiful again. According to a few different news sources, soldiers, volunteers and other unnamed parties contributed to the clean-up. There were bags and bags of the gloppy oil piled up waiting for the trucks to take them away and we happened to be there for the pick-up, as well, so by the time we left you couldn't even tell there'd been an oil spill, save for a bit of the oil globs here and there. We'd brought along some heavy plastic bags and a large covered bucket to pick up oil, if need be, but since it had been done before we got there, we used the plastic bags to pick up trash instead.
It really is a lovely beach and we'll probably make it our weekend get-away a few more times. It's so close (only a 20 minute drive). It's still kind of spendy to get there, so we can't do it too much ($10/rt via taxi).
The beach is pretty different from the Oregon beach, though. The sand is coarser (more like salt crystals) and there were tons of shells. Where the waves broke near the shore, the ground was covered with shells, but we managed to pick quite a few up from where they'd been left on the shore. We found those corkscrew kind and lots of clam shells and these really flat glass-like shells. I feel a science project coming on with the investigation and identification of them. :)
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