Shtuff found on Taiwan beaches

[sandman]

In the wake of Ho-hai-yan Rock Fest in Gongliao over the weekend:

Five years ago. Its a photo taken in 2007 by Poagao.

[milkalex]

The wreckage is almost gone, they started to dissemble the whole thing.

[Incubus]

In the wake of Ho-hai-yan Rock Fest in Gongliao over the weekend:

Five years ago. Its a photo taken in 2007 by Poagao.

Thanks for clarifying that, sandman. I got the pic from facebook. Should have known. Hope things have improved since then.

[AmoyMama]

Today at Fulong we watched a group of young waiguoren enjoy their beers on the beach, then throw the cans in the sand and walk away. My boys and I picked up their trash and bagged it up to recycle it for them. Super annoying, but a good lesson for the kids I guess. We also found lots of dead puffer fish and about 27 pairs of sunglasses.

A couple of Taiwanese girls sat and watched as my little ones helped clean up someone else's mess...and then they hurriedly picked up the trash they were about to leave in the sand.

[*monkey*]

Yep - we're talking about the same one. They were just about finished dismantling it last week - there was only part of the hull left. There are a couple of life suits still strewn over the beach from the wreck. It was pretty much on the beach as I managed to get onto it.



And the sea turtle:

Great photo of the ship.

That turtle shell could be cleaned out and made into a flintstones-style motorcycle helmet.

[ceevee369]

That's disgraceful.

Maybe learned from Woodstock 1969...?
AFAIK, I never have seen well organized waste disposal on huge multi - day concerts. Seems people like living in the middle of their own garbage -still the same after 40 years.

http://biblioklept.org/tag/environmentalism/ (3rd picture )

[finley]

I think people only clean up after themselves if there's someone literally walking behind their ass holding a roll of toilet paper. Just the way we are, as a species.

btw, interesting link (the top bit, I mean). Wish I could write even one-tenth as well as Wendell Berry. I bet he could turn Fred Smith into a proselytizing environmentalist. Apparently he's a rather nice chap too, which is quite unusual. Most environmentalists give the impression you wouldn't want to spend an evening with them in the pub.

[Super Hans]

Maybe learned from Woodstock 1969...?
AFAIK, I never have seen well organized waste disposal on huge multi - day concerts. Seems people like living in the middle of their own garbage -still the same after 40 years.

The thing is here, at least there will be a well organised clean up. Yep, it is terrible that there is so much rubbish left behind, but throughout the night there will have been lots of people with pointy straw hats and lots of vehicles with yellow flashing lights hard at work, making the beach look as clean as the inside of a flute by break of day.

Thanks for the compliment, Monkey.
That turtle stank, by the way.

[Lros]

[trubadour]

Theories? Obviously it didn't wash up like that. Unless it washed up whole and decomposed there.