Of Wrack Lines,TEDtalks & Plastic

Chocomount is beautiful-shimmering sands shifting now with tides that sweep in kelp, knotted wrack, and sea lettuce forming what is called the Wrack Line. This area of beach serves as a prime feeding ground for birds and animals hunting along what I identify as a full of “life line”.

I noted Common Eider by the “Thelma Pheobe” rocks.

I noted a purple fishing lure along with more strangling balloon debris.

I noted the back pond area and have been taking photos since Hurricane Sandy- it just looks dead, a “flat line”, a Pond of Plastics.

Oceanographer Charles Moore gives a TEDtalk: Seas of Plastic (TED.com). After he discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Moore now documents this plague of plastics infecting our oceans.

As I walk the Wrack Line, down Chocomount Beach, I imagine it is a good thing that each year my data sheet grows with more columns for different duck species and seabirds to identify.

I cannot imagine all the columns needed for plastic marine debris though- It’s tough for me to identify with that.