May 28, 2021

 I cleaned at Whiehorse rapids/Rapids du Cheval Blanc.

nature photo of rapids shoreline west of the official park.

Garbage I cleaned about to go into city garbage

May 11, 2021

 I cleaned at the new Marina. The piece of foam I took to the garbage yesterday, today I cut up, to stop crazy people from throwing it into the river for fun. I also cleaned the shoreline. All the four city garbage containers that are shown as red spots on the Bing map top-down image are full, so I will not be going back any time soon .

From Bing maps, a top-down view of the new marina.

The building at the new marina.

Large piece of foam 01

Large piece of foam 02

Large piece of foam 03

Large piece of foam being cut.

Large piece of foam cut.

 

 

The garbage I cleaned up (wide)

The garbage I cleaned up (close). There was lots of fishing line and broken glass that doesn't show in the photo.

May 10, 2021

 

No-name park

I went to three parks today for reconnaissance, to see if any were in need of cleaning and none were too bad.

I went to park Paquin and on my visual inspection it had a handful of garbage , so I went on to the no-name park that is the photo for todays blog post. The small park is a short distance away, north and a bit west.

Again at the no-name park, just a handful of garbage, that I did pick up and took to the city garbage.

Then I went to the new marina and walked the eastern shoreline and did not find much garbage. I filled a maximum size (found discarded) zip-lock bag with garbage and had thrown the collected garbage out in the city container, when to my surprise, I discovered the city had removed the fence next to the sand  volleyball/badminton court. This gave me my opportunity to take out a huge piece of Styrofoam that had been on the other side of the previous five foot tall fence. This foam had been bugging me for years, but it was too dangerous to get to, with the fence on one side and wicked thorn bushes and such plants on the other. 

So it was a good day.

April 28, 2021

 The cleaning season is once again on. Today I went to park Paquin , specifically the shoreline and discovered someone had cleaned it. I only picked up a coffee cup and what could fit in it, worth of garbage from the shoreline.

I found two geese on the shoreline when I arrived.

Shoreline of Park Paquin

Two geese on the shoreline of Park Paquin.

December 18 , 2020

I cleaned at Whitehorse rapids before the cold and snow settled in. One bag of summer beer cans, fishing line, and (glass) hard liquor bottle was cleaned. I found a collection of glass beer bottles but they will have to wait until spring because I had no way to carry them.  

nature photo of river shoreline 01

nature photo of river shoreline 02

nature photo of river shoreline starting to freeze up

The garbage I cleaned up/took out of the woods/shoreline, next to the city garbage container.

More garbage (glass bottles) that I had to leave for springtime clean up. EDIT April 26, 2021 Someone picked up the glass bottles and left the rotten cardboard.

EDIT April 26, 2021 Someone picked up the glass bottles and left the rotten cardboard.