The COAST WATCHERS

Place:   Garbí beach         Date: 6th February 2004

Team: Noemí & Gemma  

                              Shore characteristics

Kind of shore:

 

Access:

 

 

Cliff / Rock

 

X

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

X

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…

A port and a marine boulevard.

 

 

Shellfish fishing

 

 

Fishing farms

 

Salinas

X

Anchor boats

X

Nautical sports

X

Bathing zone

 

 

Rubbish dump

 

 

 

 

Living animals

Note which living animals found: Gulls

 

 

 

Remainders coming  
from natural origin

Remainders coming  
from human activities

X

Sea weeds and sea grass

X 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

 

 

 

 

Pieces of cardboard

 

 

 

X

Pieces of glass

 

 

 

 

 

             

 

The shore is...

 

Clean (remainders from human activities are not visible)

 

Nearly clean (few remainders are visible)

X

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?

All the rubbish.

What would you add?

More natural vegetation.

 

 

 

 

 

Survey done by: Noemí & Gemma