Mar 27, 2011
Leaving behind…
We noticed Pierre on the beach last season but only got to know him recently. Pierre is a Canadian from Montreal and has been coming here for about 33 years, since his daughter was four. His family spent 6 weeks here that first year. In those days the jungle came right up to the beach. It was in the day before the coco plantations and all the tourists. Now he comes for months at a time but not to just hang around the Isla, he works here.
Garbage
Meet Pierre....
For years now, he spends at least 2 hours per day picking up garbage, beach garbage, mostly left by people. All on his own he patrols the Isla de la Piedra beach, picking up bag after bag, truck load after truck load. He provides the garbage bags & as well, at his own expense he pays someone to haul the mounds of garbage away. Pierre estimates that over the past years he has picked up over 12 METRIC TONS of garbage off this beach!! A few years ago the restaurants were dumping trash along the beach because there was no garbage pickup. Thanks to Pierre the restaurants are now properly disposing of their waste. He says that each year he finds a bit less trash so perhaps his message is getting across. While working high off the beach as in the photo above he wears what he calls his ‘scorpion shoes’ to protect against the many burrs and also the scorpions which still do manage to bite him often! Another thing that Pierre does is drive stakes of driftwood into the sand along the dunes to prevent the ATV’s from eroding the local ecology. What you should know, is that Pierre does all this on his ‘vacation’ time, he still works when in Canada, part of the year anyway. Let’s hope more of us are out there on the beach picking up……
Milles gracias, mon ami!
What we should be leaving behind are tracks, just tracks in the sand………………
Cangrejo ( crab ) tracks
dog...
doggie bano!
Heron and human...
Horse!
'small bird'
Seaweed track in a tide pool...
.... of course weiner tracks.......
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Yes tracks and nothing else is good!