5 Gyres - Understanding Plastic Pollution Through Exploration, Education, and Action

The drive to Indian Beach in Ecola State Park has got to be one of the best beach drives in the entire state of Oregon. Sitka Spruce tower overhead as you meander along a shaded road through a dense coastal forest and lead you to a breathtaking view of the Pacific Ocean. As this is a rock beach, there are many places for marine debris to get lodged. Needless to say, we found a lot of plastic. Unfortunately the beach-combing expedition was cut short and I was not able to collect or photograph as much as I would have liked, but among the items found were abundant bottle caps, plastic fragments, fishing rope, and oyster spacers from Japan.