The Kintyre Forum

Hi to all of you that came and helped at yesterdays beach clean,

I just wanted to say a really big thank you to all of you who came along yesterday and helped out with the beach clean. It was a great day and everyone worked really hard. I was amazed how much rubbish was collected, there was so much it was really hard to count the bags. The pile was enormous at the end of the day. I estimated that there was around 80 bags in the end plus all of the loose stuff.

Most of the rubbish seemed to be fishing related along with quite a lot of glass at the bottom of the big dune in the hearths of a number of bonfires. Thanks to Peter and Lesley for helping me to clear that area.

I think we were all very grateful to the Coastguard for coming along to help. I really appreciated it as we would have had major problems if they had not been able to move all the rubbish up to the Car Park for the Council to collect. I have been in touch with the Council this morning and they were having some people sent out to collect all the rubbish. The person I spoke with was very impressed how much had been collected!

Also a particular thanks to Isa Moore for handing out the stuff at the car park and telling everyone about what we were doing and thanks to Homestart-MAJIK for helping to organize the event.

I have now added you all to our list of contacts for Kintyre beach cleans and to join the Argyll and Bute Beach Forum if you requested this. Please let me know if at any point you wish to be removed from the lists.

I hope everyone enjoyed the day as much as I did and I am sorry I did not get a chance to speak to you all at the end. I think next time it would be good to arrange a specific get together time at the car park. Please feel free to give me a call or drop me an email anytime. If you brought kids along, please tell them that I was really impressed with their efforts – especially Marc, Owen, the wee boiler suit trio and the girl in the pink jacket that worked really hard at one of the burns.

Thanks again. Hopefully see you at future clean ups.

Louise