We did a beach walk with rubbish bag in hand yesterday and gathered a lot of smaller plastics but nothing major. However there is an annoying barrel, actually a floatation device that had come loose from the mussel farm. We have had this before with the giant blue barrels and they can be heavy with water. This is the first time I have seen one of the black barrels but it never quite washed up on the beach. After a few days we knew it was snagged on the under growth. I waited for a sunnier morning like this morning before wading in to unsnag it. The tide was at ½ a metre and rising to1 metre this afternoon so I went in before it got any deeper. There was another guy on the beach who had found them previously and said don't bother ringing them as they never come to collect stray barrels. This one had a long rope which is what the mussels grow from. There was not a mussel to be seen as I dragged it all the way along the beach and up to the bin.
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| Mussel rope |
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| No sea bounty attached here |
I did not know that's how they harvested muscles!
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