Guernsey beach cleans and marine litter
Marine debris washes up on the Guernsey shore regularly. Much of it is from ships including fishing boats. Storms bring up broken crab and lobster pots. Beach cleaners often find an odd shoe, cigarette lighters, plastic polymer fishing rope, twine, and line, pieces of polystyrene and insulation foam, plastic bags and plastic bottles, and thousands of pieces of hard plastic including disposable plastic cutlery, plastic bottle tops and plastic toys.
Sea slaters, Ligia oceanica, feed on ice cream
The pebble beach by the bathing pools at La Valette on Guernsey's east coast was littered with wooden ice cream sticks on the night of 10 June 2007.
I didn't collect the wooden sticks because the sugar remaining on them was being devoured by a horde of sea slaters, Ligia oceanica.
Sea slaters are largely nocturnal.
I visited the pebble beach from 10 pm to midnight. Sea slaters were running across the pebbles, drinking out of soda cans and yoplait containers, and eating the sugary remains stuck to ice cream sticks.
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©RLLord
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