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Thursday, October 06, 2011

On a Beach in Batu Ferringhi, Penang, Malaysia

We went to Penang, Malaysia the other day, 3 days booked at the Holiday Inn Resort Hotel in Batu Ferringhi, Penang to enjoy everything that a resort could offer with a bit of tourism into the nearby George Town or the closer flea market for the seemingly necessary trinkets and future memories.

On the first day we had a great buffet breakfast and suitably stuffed to the gills we made a bee-line for the beach. Peculiar really. I could see this strange but perfectly drawn line between the still blue sea and the dimensionless grainy sand, a line that defied immediate explanation! Upon reaching this incongruous split of nature it all became clear - a soldiers line of plastic bottles, styrofoam cups, packets of condoms, and anything else that could float-in on the tide just lay there, a warning to the world of more to come perhaps?

Looking closer out to sea bobbing containers and bottles could be seen everywhere, a plastic invasion; what seemed worse than the line though was the total absence of any effort, by the hotel or elsewhere to clean this mess up!

Not a beach at all - an International Garbage Dump and nobody seemed to care.


1 comments:

  1. This is just sad. I hope Holiday Inn Resort can sponsor a beach clean-up campaign to rid this beach of these trash. It is a shame that a beautiful place will go to waste because of these garbage.

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