Even as a young child, I was fascinated by the outdoors and would spend hours on the beach, searching for treasure, shells and creatures in rock pools. Looking back at photos of me as a child, I could see that I was always destined to work in the outdoors, I just didn’t know how those experiences would change my life forever.
For the past 13 years, I’ve worked as an outdoor education instructor which has been the most incredible job and one mini me would have been proud of. However, over the years of instructing, the magic of looking into the glistening water for treasure, creatures and shells has been polluted and warped by the amount of litter, mostly plastics, I often find on huge scales.
The reality of this, has hit me hard and over the years, I’ve spent hours and hours doing beach cleans and litter picks but with the sinking feeling that the next day it would return.