Tallest Order: 500 lbs of Treated Wood.... Coming Right Up!

On Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 we took a trip out to Deer Island from the Schooner Pier, with the students and teachers of Mary Bethune High School.  Seeing as these students were from Hattiesburg, MS some had never been to the coast, nor been on a boat ride before, so this was a big day for all of us in some way or another.  We started our day at 9:30am and didn't finish until well after 2pm.

It turned out to be one of the best days we've had yet this winter, it was just the right amount of wind to keep the bugs away and enough sun to wear a t-shirt.  We cleaned up site 2 with great ease, with the exception of the loads and loads of treated wood we loaded into the wheel barrow and the plastic drum (which, ironically enough, used to be a trash can).  We found everything from small, hot pink, plastic pieces resembling elbow macaroni to entire channel markers washed up on the shore of Deer Island.  When it was all said and done, and the trash was sorted, weighed and logged into the computer, we had collected 821.58 lbs!  This is a record weight of debris collected from any 1/2 mile site we have designated for this project!  Great job guys!  This just goes to show, with a little hard work and little bit of land, we can work together to make a huge difference!