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Bay Flotsam

Bay & Beach Flotsam #4: Hayward Shoreline

October 20, 2009 Bay Flotsam

Capturing the flotsam tossed around on San Francisco Bay — this episode shot in a small beach cove at Hayward Shoreline. Check out Bay & Beach Flotsam #3 for more info on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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Bay & Beach Flotsam #3: Why Coastal Cleanup Days Are Critical

August 28, 2009 Bay Flotsam

It was the best of the beach and the not-so-best of the beach. The best — luminous in color and texture, with Brown Pelicans, porpoises and whales gliding parallel to the shore. The not-so-best, well — that was the inspiration for Bay & Beach Flotsam, Episode 3. We had just found two dead sea lions [...]

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Bay & Beach Flotsam #2

July 26, 2009 Bay Flotsam


Part two in my series of documenting the flotsam floating and landing on the beaches around the Bay.

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Bay & Beach Flotsam – Episode #1

June 21, 2009 Bay Flotsam


San Francisco Bay trash and pollution: I’ve seen: four-foot, mangy teddy bears nested in cord grass at high tide; an endangered Clapper Rail preening in a pile plastic bottles and corn chip bags; helium balloons tangled in seaweed, 100 yards out in the bog of low tide; plovers foraging around cigarette butts; fishing line and plastic loops just waiting to entangle the next curious gull.

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