![]() ![]() ![]() “Sometimes you’ll see a pile of blankets that just looks like a pile of blankets,” he said. Or get to talking with Thomas Lanni, the lead worker on the first shift. “They aren’t able to pack them back up, and they just leave them out here.” Or ask Brodil about the objects she loads into a truck to make way for the heavy machinery: chairs, new-looking toys, boogie boards, those beach tents that prove more cumbersome than their users are ready for. Pete/Clearwater, is the biggest tourist-tax month for both Pinellas County and Clearwater.Ī dumpster contains refuse collected from bins on Clearwater Beach. ![]() Throngs formed around Pier 60, never mind the red tide. “Last week was crazy,” said Rory Brodil, the team’s supervisor, making the rounds Friday morning in a new, beach-friendly four-wheeler.ĭuring that middle week of March, when all of Tampa Bay’s school districts and many of the state’s colleges were off at once, traffic stretched to the landward side of the Clearwater Memorial Causeway by 10 a.m., she said. The beach crews work throughout the day, landscaping and clearing sidewalks and keeping the beach clean, but only the early hours provide space for the heavy machinery, the little garbage trucks and beach rakes. But soon the first groups will emerge from the hotels to claim prime real estate for the day, then the morning rush, bringing families sprawled on blankets, college kids with their clandestine beers. Only a few people come to the beach before the sun rises: the die-hard runners, the treasure hunters with their metal detectors. Service technician Major Marchman clears trash bins of refuse using a Broyhill hydraulic load and pack machine while cleaning Clearwater Beach during his Friday pre-dawn shift. ![]()
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