Water polution.... The human race; we did this, we clean it up!

 

Out standing view of Cofete

 

Most European surfers have had the winter of their life. Three of the biggest swells maybe ever to hit the European coastlines in years. Records might have been broken for the largest waves ever surfed. But to every up side there is a down side. Coastlines have been batters ships have been washed up on the coast of France. Coastlines and floods in the UK will cost millions to repair. Here in the Cannery islands I have been dumfounded by the amount of plastic washed up on the west coast of Fuerteventura. Its an Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. Its such a small island at 1,660 square kilometres (641 sq mi) in the second larges ocean in the world With a total area of about 106,400,000 square kilometres. So the amount of plastic that has managed to wash up here makes me wonder how much water pollution is actually out there.

 

 

Otro Modo surf school do what little they can, beach cleans. So I was more than willing to role up my sleeves and get stuck in to do what feels like such a small contribution to clean this plastic up!