I was early into town so for some reason unknown to my sentient self I pulled over at the western end of Boca Chica Bridge on Highway 1.
I saw a plastic bag fluttering out of reach in the median and it put me in mind of one of those Facebook debates over single use plastic bags. My buddy Robert, and eco-warrior was making the case for eliminating plastic bags which was riling some other people up. And there it was all ready to fly off into the water and look like indigestible food for wildlife.
The flats north of the approaches to Stock Island are jet ski country, and I saw a couple of them zipping across flat water:
I am no fisherman as I fear that pitting my wits against the fish would only result in me coming out second best. I hunt fish at Publix.
The fisherman being hauled hither and yon on the flats boat was more involved with his phone than the scenery. A commonplace nowadays.
One more lovely day in fact.
Good to be alive.
4 comments:
I love the color of the water down there..... cute critters. :)
I work in D.C. and several years ago stores started charging for plastic bags; one of the things I noticed within a couple of months was the sudden scarcity of plastic bags littering the streets. At the most recent Anacostia River cleanup the organizers noted a tremendous drop in the number of plastic bags they've been fishing out of the river and wetlands in the last couple years. So despite the consumer uproar over charging for bags, the ultimate goal of less trash seems to be working.
It’ll happen in the Keys...long after everybody else figures it out.
Solar energy is still a huge puzzle in these sunny isles!
Hopefully that sailboat taking out the TIE line will help nudge them closer to embracing solar panels. :)
In France supermarkets are not allowed to provide or even sell single use plastic grocery bags. So everyone brings their reusable shopping bags and it works just fine. Just a habit to get into.
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