William takes karate lessons from Brian Jordan’s South Coast Karate, which is an excellent outfit; highly recommended. Last weekend William and I participated in their annual Trails Day, when they go as a group into the Los Padres National Forest and pick up trash along the Santa Ynez River.
This is the second time we’ve done Trails Day, and it’s a lot of fun, if fairly exhausting. Based on my personal trash haul, some popular things for people to dump near the day use areas along Gibralter Road include:
- beer bottles
- beer cans
- tequila bottles
- styrofoam cups and plates
- disposable diapers
- clothing (teeshirt, socks, underwear)
- one plastic Easter egg, intact, with a piece of candy and a quarter inside
I got pretty tired out from the hot sun, but William and his buddies were smarter: After we got done picking up trash they changed into their bathing suits and went for a swim here:
