At least 200 meters of beach near the city of Pellestrina--a community on one of the Venetian lagoon's barrier islands--is beautiful. I hope there is more then 200 meters, but from what I know about the beaches further south--near the city of Sottomarina--a clean beach is not a guarantee in Northern Italia.
As a demonstration:
On October 26 I walked along the sea, 2-meters from the water, for exactly ten minutes and saw the following.
plastic water bottles (10), sunglasses, diapers, plastic fishing net, a dead gull, fish heads, rubber toy shark, glass vials, motor oil containers (2), beer cans (5), coca-cola can, rubber gloves (10), work gloves, toy car, plastic bags (20 +), a flower pot, uncountable pieces of Styrofoam, shoes (3), wood, dead eel grass, a soccer ball, orange peels, candy wrappers, cigarette butts, pill bottles (2), tooth paste containers, a disposable razor, seashells, the jaw bone of a cow, plastic forks, pens (2), a bag of potatoes, plastic lids, half full bottle of antifreeze, dish soap, cardboard food cartons, feathers, and sand.
Explorations in River Deltas and Coastal Wetlands.
About Me
For the next twelve months I will be traveling to river deltas around the world as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. I am a human ecologist who has worked with plants, law makers, loggers, stone flies, and rivers in Coastal Maine; children, salt marshes, fishermen, land trusts, and Quakers in Southern New Jersey; and tortoises in the Mojave desert. During my year abroad I will be combining these interests and experiences by living in and meeting researchers, managers, and community members in the Venetian lagoon, Mackenzie, Ganges/Brahmaputra, Mekong, and Colorado river deltas.
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