BIG SHELL, 1: When currents collide the end result can get 
messy ... we'll explain on Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Only at Big Shell Beach, part of the Padres Island National 
Shoreline, will you find the convergence of two currents -- 
one from the north, the other from the south. 

And it [the currents] throws large amounts of broken up shell 
[onto the beach] -- and they're large species of clamshells -- and 
[that's why] the scientists named it the Big Shell. :09

Captain Billy Sandifer is a licensed fishing guide. The 
commingling currents deposit not only shells onto the 
beach, but also copious amounts of trash.

When these two currents collide, they literally are carrying any 
kind of debris that has been thrown in the gulf from either 
direction. :11

This is why Captain Sandifer organizes the annual clean 
up of Big Shell Beach, which he started back in 1995. And 
this year's cleanup is fast approaching.

This will be our fourteenth event, and we have removed one 
million thirty thousand pounds of trash off that beach. :09

Scheduled for March 14, this year's event will be the 
biggest yet, as Big Shell has the distinction of being the 
repository of debris resulting from Hurricane Ike. 

It looks like a landfill from one end to the other. All of 
Gilchrest's and Galveston's missing wood, lawn chairs, jet skis, 
boats, generators ... I could just go on and on and on ... :16

Volunteer to help, find out how tomorrow, or visit 
passporttotexas.org today.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.





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