Trashy People

  At times, I have little faith in the intelligence of humankind.  I ponder the smarts of folks that continually try to obliterate the very planet on which we all live.  Maybe not obliterate but contribute to its slow demise.  Folks, keep your trash where it belongs and not in the Bayou!  Here is a novel idea!  Why not put the trash in a TRASH CAN!!!  Amazing that thought has not crossed the minds of certain people. There is not a day that goes by that I am not fishing something from the marsh.  Bottles, cans, cups, grocery bags, jackets (yes, I have gathered several of those), broken fishing gear and a few "unmentionables" (disgusting but true).  As tired as I am of picking up other folks' garbage, I will continue.  This Bayou that everyone keeps trashing is my front yard.  

  We  recently bought fifty pounds of shrimp for our son and daughter-in-law.  We headed the shrimp and froze them so that they could get them the next time they visit the Bayou.  Our younger son took the shrimp heads down to the Bayou to feed the fish but the large plastic bag was brought back to the house.  He washed the bag, tied it up in a small bundle and put it in the trash bin.  He then took the huge box, broke it down to a workable size and disposed of it in the same manner.  Folks that is what you do with garbage...you dispose of it properly.  You do not toss it in the Bay.

  Later in the evening, Mark and I took our leisurely walk to the pier to relax a bit.  Our relaxation was short lived.  I became quite saddened at the sight.  A similar shrimp box had floated across the Bay to become lodged in the marsh.  Ok, so the box was not too bad...unsightly but not the end of the world.  It would decompose eventually but what I saw a bit to the east made me sick to the stomach.  There wedged in the marsh was a bag that obviously contained the heads and peels of either shrimp or crawfish.  Geez!  Whoever threw that over does not have a bit of sense in their head!  EMPTY THE BAG!!!  Just empty the bag and put the plastic in the trash! Critters will eat the foodstuffs but the containers just cause problems.  Since the bag (and the box) were far from the pier, I could not retrieve them to dispose of them properly.

  Later that night, the bag was ripped to pieces as critters tried to eat the contents.  Bits and pieces of blue plastic floated about on the waves until it was scattered about the place.  While I know my griping will never solve the problem, at times, it irks me enough that I have to vent.  I guess I will forever have to pick up after people who don't care much about Mother Nature.  Grrr!