Saturday's Forecast, and Trash Bash!

COASTAL WATERS FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
519 AM EDT WED SEP 3 2008
MONTAUK POINT NEW YORK TO SANDY HOOK NEW JERSEY OUT 20 NM OFFSHORE
INCLUDING LONG ISLAND SOUND...LONG ISLAND BAYS AND NEW YORK HARBOR
ANZ338-032045-
NEW YORK HARBOR-
519 AM EDT WED SEP 3 2008

SAT
TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS POSSIBLE.

Hmmm. I guess I'm NOT going sailing this weekend!

Actually this is a wee bit of a drag - I was looking forward to doing a little Trash Bashing out on Canarsie Pol! The club does this every year as part of the American Littoral Society's Beach Cleanup. It seems like a really nice way to help the local waterways that just MAKE my quality of life work, living here in NYC. Looks like there's a good chance we'll be postponing until the 20th, which is the "official" date anyways. BTW, if you're interested in joining in the trash-bashing fun, just click on the "Beach Cleanup" link (under the crab) - the "official" date is the 20th, but there are events going on all over NYC & beyond from this weekend on through early October (and for most of 'em, you don't even need to paddle). Great way to get to know your own local waterfront & meet people who love it (be it ever so humble!)

Funny/sad moment involving littering last weekend.

I went out to Breezy Point on Saturday. It was a nice, nice paddle. The water in Jamaica Bay water been particularly brown & murky this summer (I think the algae likes the warm water as much as the as much as the jellyfish do)- but you get out to Breezy Point though & all the sudden the water is glass-green & glass-clear. So nice. The sheer beauty of the water made it all the more annoying to suddenly see an empty Corona bottle come flying out of a big motorboat that had anchored out there & splash down to go bobbing away in the current. I stopped paddling & sat there a moment & looked at the bottle, back at the motorboat, back at the bottle, back at the motorboat.

Eventually paddled on but really wanted to toss that bottle right back on board.

Figured that broken glass all over the deck would try even the most mild-mannered stinkpotter's sense of humor, though, and their boat was way bigger than mine. If it had been a beer can, instead...

Just kills me to see that kind of complete thoughtlessness. Oh, la la la, here we are on our great big motorboat enjoying a beautiful day on the water. Hey, let's throw some trash in it, that would totally improve the experience! Yeah!

grrrr...