Vancleave High School brought out yet another group to clean up Deer Island on April 16th, 2012. This group of high school students really dug in and picked up a total of 331.65 lbs from site #3 on the South side of the island!
We started the morning off by cleaning up the camp site on the North side on our way over to the South side. Needless to say, there were some campers that left it all behind for someone else to clean up! It smelled just as good as it looks like it would...someone had a delicious crawfish boil on the island and we got the leftovers. The wheel barrow was full within the first 15 minutes of our clean up! We had to rebag it all in force-flex trash bags and load it onto the boat before we crossed the island. Great job guys!
It wasn't all bad though, this little ghost crab decided to join the party! Luckily this young lady was wearing gloves, he really had a hold of her fingers.
On the South side we found some pretty interesting debris including tarps, crab trap fragments, a gigg, a broom and a septic tank from an old boat. The girls pictured below got down in the sand and dug the septic tank out, great job! This may be a stinky job... but someone needs to do it.
Overall, this trip was very productive, they found lots of sharks teeth and cleaned up a half mile segment of Deer Island. I really appreciate all your hard work and efforts to conserve our coastal environment! Keep it up and I know that one day, we won't find hundreds of pounds of trash in even a ten mile segment, much less in a half mile!
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