On my last trip I made a video of it. This time I didn't find those huge collections but there was still plastic all along the beach and I know that plastic will be back with the next big storm.
Kailua Beach Broke My Heart
Two years ago I went with Jerry to his home town, Kailua, for the first time. It was my first time on Oahu and I fell in love immediately, especially seeing it through the eyes of a home-town boy. We stayed at an AirBnB one house back from Kailua Beach so I went to the beach every day. Kailua Beach is regularly voted best beach in the world because of the miles of soft sand, beautiful blue water, usually without too strong of a surf and views of the gorgeous Ko'olau Mountains. We got engaged on that beach on that trip so it's very special to me. But what is as memorable to me is how shocked I was to have to walk through swaths of decaying plastic bits to get down to the water. On that trip, maybe because of a recent storm, at the high-tide level there would be deposits two feet wide and five or more feet long - all just bits of different colored plastic.
On my last trip I made a video of it. This time I didn't find those huge collections but there was still plastic all along the beach and I know that plastic will be back with the next big storm.
On my last trip I made a video of it. This time I didn't find those huge collections but there was still plastic all along the beach and I know that plastic will be back with the next big storm.
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