Coffee Plantation sponsors Christmas Tree Clean-up

The Cormorant received this announcement today from Theo Glorie at the Coffee Plantation.

This Sunday July 22th we have picked to clean up Christmas Tree Island.
The plan is to be at Simonton pier at 9:00 am
Come join us…
We got bags, and can use lots of helping hands.
See ya there!
Theo

Wisteria Island

One of the inspirations of the Cormorant is Wisteria Island. Also known as Christmas Tree Island, Wisteria (as it’s known on nautical charts) is a green space deserving of attention. And attention it has gotten! Recently, the island’s stewardship was taken over by the sons of the people who owned it. The parents passed on last year, and the sons quickly have made efforts to develop it

There has been a lot of press about “the condition” of Wisteria, about the problem with rubbish on the island. And to a degree, it’s true. No one cleaned it up after Wilma, and a ton (or more) of debris accumulated. Plus beer cans, beer bottles, and stuff that just washes up from time to time. So my buddy Cliff the Weaver, his buddy Steve-O, and I got together this week and put in a few hours collecting and bagging up garbage.

Here is a picture with our bounty, twenty bags of it. Thanks to Arnaud and his Magic Penny II for help transporting all the stuff across the water and to the garbage.

Why The Cormorant

Because after spending three years around cormorants, watching them nest, mate, live, hunt, eat, shit and love, I have found that the bird has a piece of my heart.

They are a heavy, dark meat bird, you know?

Not that I have eaten one (blech), it’s just one of the bits of collateral cormorant information I have learned in my sojurn with the birds. They have a fully-developed skeletal system, too, meaning none of this “light bones” stuff. It’s all or nothing for the Cormorant!