Keep the Beach Clean, Please

[John R]

This is from Cape May Point, I believe. It's been far too long since i've been back. It was our Grayton, both sides of the family have had houses there for longer than I can remember. Since most who post here have first, second, or income homes here, it might be good to post this(or something like it) in a prominent place for guests to see.

kurt, feel free to move this if it needs to be elsewhere

let's keep it clean, especially since we don't recycle

 

[Kimmifunn]

Where is Cape May? North or South shore?

 

[John R]

Where is Cape May? North or South shore?

 

[Kimmifunn]

Oh...it's all the way down.

We have a friend from Connecticut with a compound in the Hamptons. Which will be super funn.

A couple summers ago I spent a weekend at Ian Schrager's ex-wife Rita's place out on Meadow Lane in S. Hampton. Talk about a beach house. I mean we are talking big time. And lots and lots of land. That's how all those places are out there.

 

[seacrestkristi]

:clap_1: Very informative signage, would love to see it posted and littering fines jacked up, posted and enforced also. I don't remember seeing any littering signs at all in South Walton?! Certainly I must be wrong about that? Am I ???

:roll: It is our second home and I pick up lots and lots of garbage every time we visit. My husband and I have lived and have family throughout Florida but have never seen such a beautiful beach or coastal lakes like in South Walton.

We love helping keep it clean because its our dream to live there one day if its not ruined by too much growth and pollution!

One visit we arrive and a very old pine tree with bird nest and all the native vegetation next to our townhouse in Seacrest was stripped bare. A giant yet beautiful 3 story house is there but with no buffer between us. It would be nice if there was a law to leave a native buffer between properties! Next time we come the other side of our little complex is stripped clear of trees and a concrete foundation for yet more houses are filling in part of a WETLAND AREA right acrooss from the Gulf next to us! It was so sad. Every tree was stripped from that property too leaving no buffer again. Next we're riding our bikes and we notice right on the edge of the bluff on the beach a huge hole with steel girders jammed in very deep to form walls underground right up against the inside of the protective gulf bluff where a new 3 strory? condo is going (not sure, just a guess by the size of that hole in the bluff). Someone said that was underground parking?! My goodness where does the abuse of the land end?How can that be good for the bluff? Can't tell you how much trash is created by the workers next door. I pick up their lunch trash that's blown over everytime we're down. Do we need a stronger watchdog to protect the environment there?!

Anyhow just want to let you know some of us second homers love helping to keep the beaches clean. Makes you feel like Mother Nature is smiling down at you.

 

[Allifunn]

:clap_1: Very informative signage, would love to see it posted and littering fines jacked up, posted and enforced also. I don't remember seeing any littering signs at all in South Walton?! Certainly I must be wrong about that? Am I ???

:roll: It is our second home and I pick up lots and lots of garbage every time we visit. My husband and I have lived and have family throughout Florida but have never seen such a beautiful beach or coastal lakes like in South Walton.

We love helping keep it clean because its our dream to live there one day if its not ruined by too much growth and pollution!

One visit we arrive and a very old pine tree with bird nest and all the native vegetation next to our townhouse in Seacrest was stripped bare. A giant yet beautiful 3 story house is there but with no buffer between us. It would be nice if there was a law to leave a native buffer between properties! Next time we come the other side of our little complex is stripped clear of trees and a concrete foundation for yet more houses are filling in part of a WETLAND AREA right acrooss from the Gulf next to us! It was so sad. Every tree was stripped from that property too leaving no buffer again. Next we're riding our bikes and we notice right on the edge of the bluff on the beach a huge hole with steel girders jammed in very deep to form walls underground right up against the inside of the protective gulf bluff where a new 3 strory? condo is going (not sure, just a guess by the size of that hole in the bluff). Someone said that was underground parking?! My goodness where does the abuse of the land end?How can that be good for the bluff? Can't tell you how much trash is created by the workers next door. I pick up their lunch trash that's blown over everytime we're down. Do we need a stronger watchdog to protect the environment there?!

Anyhow just want to let you know some of us second homers love helping to keep the beaches clean. Makes you feel like Mother Nature is smiling down at you.

sck......thanks for bringing this thread back..I had not seen it. This sign really makes you think...most people are too ignorant, or lazy, to clean up after themselves...maybe if signs like this were posted , people might just be shamed into being more considerate of the natural beauty that surrounds them Amazing that most do not even consider the LONG term effects their litter has on the oceans, gulfs, lakes...etc. Ignorance is an unforgiveable and horiffic crime! I would be on the beach every day picking up trash (and god knows there is tons of it at EVERY beach in this nation) if I lived there...a small dent...but at least it would make me feel like I was helping in some small way