The COAST WATCHERS

Place:   Delicies beach & Far beach    Date: 6th February 2004

Team: Jenny & Conxi. IES Ciutat Badia

                                   Shore characteristics

Kind of shore:

 

Access:

 

  Cliff / Rock     Easy for vehicle
  Breakwater / Concrete   X Easy on foot
  Crushed stone shore     Difficult or impossible
X Sand shore     Prohibited
  Muddy shore / Marsh      
         

The shore is surrounded by:

It arrives to the shore:

  Farms     A river
  Factories     A gully
  Port     Some filtration
  Fields     A sewer
  Natural vegetation     A farming drain
X Buildings     A lagoon
      X Nothing

                                              Shore uses

X Fishing

 

That’s why it has been built…

 

Buildings, breakwaters, some sand has been added, showers on the beach…

 

Shellfish fishing

 

 

Fishing farms

 

Salinas

 

Anchor boats

X

Nautical sports

X

Bathing zone

 

 

Rubbish dump

 

 

 

 

Living animals

Note which living animals found:

 Gulls

 

Remainders coming
fro
m natural origin

Remainders coming
from human activities

X

Sea weeds and sea grass

  Rubble

 

Sepia bones

 

 

Tyres

 

Crab’s sloughs

 

 

Polystyrene (packing cases)

 

Laying of eggs

 

X

Tins

X

Shells

 

 

Pieces of wood

 

Dead animals

 

 

Ropes and nets

 

 

 

X

Plastic containers

 

 

 

 

Large metal objects

 

 

 

X

Pieces of cardboard

 

 

 

 

Pieces of glass

 

 

 

 

 


 

The shore is...

  Clean (remainders from human activities are not visible)

X

Nearly clean (few remainders are visible)

 

Pretty dirty (A lot of remainders are visible)

 

Dirty (you can avoid walking on remainders from human activities)

 

 

What would you take out from the shoreline if you could?

 The rubbish.

What would you add?

 Original sand,  not these one carried from the mountains.

 

 

     

 

Survey done by: Jenny & Conxi