{"id":97,"date":"2017-03-21T23:09:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T23:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/?p=97"},"modified":"2018-02-26T23:41:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T23:41:16","slug":"microplastics-anastasia-island-near-the-inlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/microplastics-anastasia-island-near-the-inlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Microplastics Anastasia Island near the Inlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-100 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WP_20170318_15_08_34_Pro-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"WP_20170318_15_08_34_Pro\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WP_20170318_15_08_34_Pro-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WP_20170318_15_08_34_Pro-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WP_20170318_15_08_34_Pro-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I beached on the west side of Anastasia State Park near the jetties at the south side of the inlet. \u00a0My husband and I kayaked from the Lighthouse in Salt Run. When I took a walk around the inlet to the beach, I found lots of microplastics. \u00a0These plastics have been there for years in the high dunes and old storm wrack lines. \u00a0Hurricane Matthew has caused \u00a0loss of the dunes and left behind a huge amount of microplastics. \u00a0It&#8217;s now scattered in the sand for the next high tides to wash back out to sea.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to what I saw in the sand behind the huge granite rocks that make up the jetties.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/a\/s!AkxAL_u8qoObk5s9g_33V4Gp_2nmug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is a link to the beauty of the inlet without seeing its dirty secret that scatters the \u00a0beach near it. \u00a0These tiny plastics are \u00a0often not noticed because of their size.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/a\/s!AkxAL_u8qoObk5s-w_ntWDcq5zjQxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beautiful beach photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, I beached on the west side of Anastasia State Park near the jetties at the south side of the inlet. \u00a0My husband and I kayaked from the Lighthouse in Salt Run. When I took a walk around the inlet to the beach, I found lots of microplastics. \u00a0These plastics have been there for <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/microplastics-anastasia-island-near-the-inlet\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microplastics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ocean.priester.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}