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for many, many years RIMS provided a dumpster just inside the gate on their dime for trash. i bet that it was hardly used. signage gets puts up promoting its purpose and respecting the resource, only to be torn down or thrown in the dumpster itself. less than a month ago there was a beach cleanup and WH was cleaned. you wouldn't even know now.
i think i've said this before, but regardless of whom throws the trash into the rocks, people will blame the fisherman as a whole. even when many of us bring out what we bring in.
the trash has become worse in recent years. sand worm boxes, empty rig packages, fishing line, coffee cups, soda/beer containers - it's pretty sad. to me, it's more about how you were brought up then respecting the spot, or access in general. heck, a couple weeks back i watched someone fillet a fish on the wall - really? do you mind if i use your hood next time i get a fish? i would love to personally drag a bag full of the trash from there from someone that left trash behind and spread it in their front yard. DEM could make a pile of money daily doing routine checks of licenses and people driving the beaches w/o a CRMC permit. not to mention local police ticketing vehicles w/o handicap tags or those under 65 using the parking lot at the lighthouse. you'd think the state was rich.
as for parking, to me this comes down to pure laziness. they locked up the private parking lot up top, as they have been doing in recent years, so people park on the street. when the street parking is full on top, it's like people don't know what to do. it's pretty sad when i look forward to easy access/parking tightening up so that there may be hope that some people that will get pissed off may not fish it and it may become cleaner. no matter how much i've worked with clubs on committees designed to help fisherperson public access, some in the public always seem to find a way to ruin it for all. and the worse part, it may not even be a fisherman. when it is, you want to explode.
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