We had 2 nice days this week but in between those, we'd continued to have storms, and I kept calling Benny & Debby reporting large plastic float sightings, and Benny kept going out on the beach to retrieve them. Half of those are in my yard, and the rest in theirs.
Around 9:30am this morning, they once again started washing up all over the beach, I called Debby, and first we sent Benny North to pick up 2, he came back with 3, he got back and there we're to more South of us, so out he went again. While he was headed South a really nice netted plastic one floated up right in front of the house and so I ran out and got that one.
Meanwhile, Benny & Debby were eating lunch, and I had promised not to call again for a while, and during that time we saw 5 more float up on the beach North of us, well at that point Debby couldn't take it anymore so she called me, and we agreed that we needed to go out and do some serious retrieval. So we put on our yellow rain gear, keep in mind it's still blowing a steady 40 with gusts better than that, raining sideways, with some occasional hail. We walked all the way North to the end of Kla-ha-nee (Sutton Creek) - we're picking up small & large plastic floats everywhere. We wound up with so many that we had this huge duffle bag full of them, which we were each carrying a handle of, plus I was holding one in my other hand, and Debby was holding my mesh 10LB potato bag of small floats, and we're walking into the storm. Just as we get back to the path off the beach in front of our houses, a giant orange one washed up, I went to retrieve that, and Debby dragged the rest up to the driveway of my house. Benny, is watching us struggle with this mess all warm and safe from the comfort of their house, while laughing at us.
We get them unloaded in my driveway figuring we'll divvy them up later - then Debby says, we should take a picture of the floats, I run upstairs get the camera, shoot a few pictures, and around the corner comes Benny, he's just watched "my glass floats twin" wash up in the surf right in front of our houses, and ran out to retrieve it. We were all beside ourselves, and another neighbor came out to see as well.
Now Debby, and I we're feeling pretty tired, after this foray for floats, and after seeing Benny's - Debby says we should go back out and walk the other direction. I'm stunned as that walk back we'd just done, was the longest walk we'd ever made, keeping in mind, we walk this stretch all the time with the dogs in good weather. It's much longer in really crappy windy weather carrying all that stuff. But-hey, this is to much fun I'm game - so out we go. Now it's high tide!
Meanwhile-Benny says, he's heading for Baker Beach, North of Sutton Creek on his bike, it's really un-walked so he figures he'll find good stuff.
Out into the winds Debby and I go again, this time headed south towards the Jetty. We pick up a bunch of small plastic floats, get caught in a really nasty hail storm (we hunkered down in a dune), and finally decide we should head back home, we've just passed Driftwood Shores, when I notice an odd piece of wood, give it a kick...hmmm... not wood...glass...OH MY GAWD..it's a rolling pin float, I've just found the 5th glass float of my life, and it's a more rare than last weeks find.
Benny, didn't get back till an hour after we did, no glass floats from Baker Beach, but more plastic. In between Debby ran out and got another plastic float that washed up right in front of our houses, than after dinner, just before sunset, Benny went out and retrieved 4 more plastic floats. We'll come up with a final count later - only half of our plastic floats are in the photo.
I haven't truly taken a day off in a long time, this was a day off, and waaaay to much fun!
Anyway, the Anderson & Kettenhofen houses are claiming most balls in the neighborhood-and yes we know we're certifiably insane!
No comments:
Post a Comment