Tarboo Bay Beach Clean Up

In early February we met up with Deborah from DNR to do a beach cleanup at Tarboo Bay, near Quilcene. The crew was definitely anticipating a break from planting, and working on a beach all day seemed like awesome. As we walked down to the beach and received an orientation to the site and project we realized this wouldn't be such an easy job. The wind was blowing, there were logs strewn every where and the beach was trashed! We grabbed some trash bags and began combing the beach. We picked up thousands upon thousands of plastic bottles, foam floats, wood, a lot of stuff! There were a few items we were supposed to look out for: muscle disks and aquaculture bags. We later found out that for every 50 muscle disks we turned in we would get a 5 pound bag of muscles. We set out diligently to find every muscle disk we could. Along the way we found a few odd bits of trash: old school leather shoes, some cool little trinkets that we kept, tennis balls, racquet ball balls, you name it, we probably found one of them. We began a little competition for grossest, coolest and most valuable find. Unfortunately I can't remember who won what, but in the end every one walked away with enough muscle disks to cash in for 10 pounds of muscles.

did I mention we got to ride these cool barges?