Witnesses said hundreds of recent high school graduates held a party at Mickler’s Beach in Ponte Vedra Beach and left behind thousands of cans and bottles.
The good news is volunteers quickly hopped in to restore the beach — but they were not happy about it.
Volunteers worked for hours Friday to clean up the mess that included all sorts of beer cans, liquor bottles and garbage. Mickler’s Beach is known as a great place to go to pick up shark teeth, but that’s not what the man known as “Bucket Bob” was doing on Friday.He’s here almost daily cleaning up, but this time is different. There was trash everywhere from the sand to the dunes, which are actually protected.“Cause I love the beach. I go back to when I was a boy scout. One of my projects was to do a large trash pickup around the neighborhood and this kind of stuck with me.
Several people told News4JAX there was a large high school graduation party Thursday night just south of the beach access. Beyond allegations of underage drinking, there are also complaints of littering which is also against the law. But there are also teens who are doing good, like Brandon Almaria. He cleaned up on behalf of Beaches Go Green. He just graduated Tocoi Creek High School and is bound for the University of Florida but took time out of his day to clean the beach.It’s OK for you to have fun, but you have to remember that this is the one place that were given, the one earth we can live on.
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