Last month, as faithful readers know, we had a day in Sitges. It was perfect. The sun shone, the sea sparkled, and we sauntered along its clean wide sandy beaches.
All was not as it seemed though. In just five minutes, from the apparently uncontaminated sands, we recovered these: mainly plastic straws and bottle tops, many disintegrating into the shards and fragments now wreaking such havoc in our oceans. And this is a ‘clean’ beach. 
On a happier note, here’s a parakeet in a palm tree. The high prices of housing in this fashionable holiday destination don’t worry him. He has all he needs to build a home simply by fossicking around among the palm trees’ tall fronds.
In response (sort of) to this week’s WordPress challenge, Variations on a theme.
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
What a lot of plastic you found! I am so glad that the world is waking up to the horror of plastic pollution, at last!
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It was frightening how much we amassed in our very mini-trawl. We could have got a dustbinful on this clean and welcoming beach.
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Quite the contrast of themes–I like the parakeet and will focus my attention on him!
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Definitely. A cheeky chappie!
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It does break ones heart to see the trash in our oceans and forests. I too am glad we are waking up to the waste and how it is destroying our beautiful planet. We still have far to go that is for sure.
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We have indeed. How lovely to hear from you. I miss your posts. Is your writing going well?
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thank you margaret – I am not writing as much as I would like. Job description changed a bit so trying to get my bearings. God will lead me out of the chaos and I hope to get back writing. I enjoy your posts and the pictures of such a beautiful country. Think often of your daughter and pray she is doing well.
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She is thank you. She’s got her happy face back, much of the time. I hope your chaos is ‘good chaos’. You seem busy!
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And you visited in winter, I hate to think how much rubbish high season will bring.
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This will all have been washed in, much of it already degraded and breaking down 😦
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Plastic was greeted as such a wonderful ‘magic’ material, I wonder what we are making today that future generations will be throwing their hands up in horror about. Would be nice to think we are learning lessons, but somehow I’m not so sure.
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I agree. There again, how many future generations do you think there’ll be?
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Mmmm – not so sure these days with the orange man’s finger on the button!
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Strange that both your post and mine on this theme should including the horrors of plastic pollution – a scourge on land and sea. I gather that the parakeet is an introduced species in Spain?
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Yes. They seem to be all over Spain, and London too. Just like plastic, they get everywhere. But without the awful consequences.
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