Hi Steemit! I have lived in Phuket for a few years and in the pictures below you can see my favorite beach here. It is not named on a map and apparently has no official name but I call it 'Secret Beach'.
I call it 'Secret beach' because it is not easy to access and you must climb down a mildly treacherous descent to reach it. There is barbed wire on one side so you have to be careful what you reach out for if you were to slip!
Sadly beaches become littered easily and with this particular beach not being easy to access, people can be lazy and leave their rubbish behind.
This is frustrating because I love to come here with my girlfriend, friends and my two pit bulls, Shiva and Chaos (mother and son), so they can run free and play in the water.
It is unfortunate that some people cannot cleanup behind themselves. This leaves glass and other dangerous objects on the beach and is a safety concern for my dogs (who tear around the place) and anyone who wishes to visit the beach barefoot.
After a frustrating experience with a shard of glass one day, I decided to start operation beach cleanup and tackle this issue in a proactive way.
Armed with gloves, black bin bags and my friend Tomas as a helping hand we launched an assault on the beach picking up any waste material we could find.
We estimate that we collected roughly 150-200 kilograms of rubbish from the beach and it took about 4-5 hours.
This leaves the beach in more enjoyable state for all to enjoy. We were so happy about our efforts that we have decided to do this more often in an attempt to help cleanup some areas we like and visit regularly. We plan on cleaning up more beaches and other areas soon and look forward to sharing that experience with you too! Keep following us for further episodes!
P.S. If anyone would like to take part and help cleanup next time please get in contact with me.
Here is a short video of my dogs enjoying the beach. They love to come here and their favorite game is retrieving sticks and logs from the sea as well as shredding entire coconut shells!
Map: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/7.76118,98.3163736//@7.761262,98.3164048,197m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=cs