I WISH... I WISH.... I WISH.... I WILL. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2015 @ 10:43 AM Access 16-19 TIME: 20 minutes WEATHER: 78 & cloudy (rising tide: low tide @ 8:53 AM) CIGARETTE BU...
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Recently, I've been hearing that there's an increase in cigarette litter at Wrightsville Beach and was even interviewed by Lumina News about the topic. I went to the beach with the sole purpos...
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It has been nearly 15 months since I last posted a beach cleanup. Truth be told, I did some beach cleanups... took some pictures and then... well, I deleted them. I decided that needed a brea...
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Tuesday evening it rained... ok... more like it poured. So I wasn't surprised when I went to Wrightsville Beach Wednesday morning to find a lot of forgotten items. Wednesday morning was the...
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Usually, I'm not a morning person. I may wake up around 7 am, but I move slowly spending a good 2-hours sitting around sipping tea, playing word games and reading before I am ready to "start" m...
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I started my day of (w)RIGHT(sville)! Quick beach cleanup before I went to yoga! July 12, 2014 at Access 36 Litter by weight: 6.1 oz Cigarette butts: 25 TOTAL AMOUNT OF CIGARETTE B...
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Before I went to yoga this morning, I decided to do a beach cleanup. Being a Friday morning in the middle of summer, I imagined the beach being very busy and I started to get nervous. Having ...
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Friday evening we volunteered once again for NC Audubon watching after the protected shore bird nesting area. We've been fortunate during our volunteer time to not have any problems and get to ...
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A very very windy evening at Wrightsville Beach meant lots of fun for my kids! Besides having to be very careful and not let my bag blow open... it was an easy beach cleanup. With the w...
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It's simple. Whatever we do (or don't do) impacts the world we live in. We're volunteering with Audubon NC as Wrightsville Beach Bird Stewards! It's a great reason to be at the beach...
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Memorial Day weekend is considered the official start of beach season. It's also the start of what any of us who clean the beach would call the "trashing of the beach". Beach goers come in dr...
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This year, my kids and I are volunteering for NC Audubon at the far southend of Wrightsville Beach. So whenever we can, we'll be spending our time helping educate beach goers about the nesting b...
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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ~La...
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"A common misconception about people who are passionate about their values is that they expect everyone to live like them. In actuality, many of the most passionate driven people I know, are als...
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"Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours." ~Doug Larson I've been taking a lot of detours lately and letting this blog sit... I'll be here ...
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It has been almost exactly a month since I did my last beach clean up. The cause? My family and I went on a nearly 3 week camping/roadtrip throughout southwest US! It was really really amaz...
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For 2 months, I had planned to do a beach cleanup on March 25 while my kids had their science class at Airlie Gardens. So when I woke up that Tuesday morning, you can imagine my disappointment ...
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This afternoon, as my kids and I were talking, I mentioned that it was World Water Day. My kids looked at me like they were waiting for me to say something more.... so, I finished with: "All li...
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On Tuesday, I went to Wrightsville Beach in the middle of the day and was shocked to find it completely packed (for a winter weekday). Of course, my first thought was "doesn't anyone work in th...
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) ...
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It's pretty amazing that our society has reached a point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a refinery, turn it into plastic, shape it appropriately, t...
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On Sunday, as I drove to Wrightsville Beach to do a quick cleanup before taking my son to his hip hop class, I thought I knew what I was getting into. Well, I was wrong. While getting onto ...
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This afternoon, my youngest and I walked all around access 43 wrapping around to where Banks Channel and Shinn Creek meet. There on the shore of Banks Channel, we stopped to watch a pod of dolp...
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We were supposed to go on a field trip today to Durham, but I couldn't force myself to leave the beach. Museums aren't going anywhere, but true beach days in February are limited... so I changed ...
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