I was on a sailing holiday recently, and anchored at the beautiful Caribbean island of Bequia for a few idyllic days. Whilst there, I visited the Old Hegg Turtle Sanctuary, run by a couple of devoted Bequians, existing on voluntary donations and caring for Turtles.
Why am I blogging about this? Well, in the press today there was a front page picture of a Turtle which had ingested a plastic bag (they look like Jellyfish when floating in the water, and turtles eat these) and was dying.
Many of the turtles rescued by the Old Hegg sanctuary deal with this tragic issue. If you want to know more about the sanctuary, click here.
So, I for one would applaud a 'Bin the Bag' campaign. Just take your 'bag for life' with you when you go shopping...surely this is what people did before plastic bags.
Unnecessary secondary, not something you'll be seeing from King of Shaves
WKoHamat 08
PS, we adopted this turtle and called him Dudley, after my much missed Fox Terrier, who died at the ripe old age of 15 whilst I was away.
