Okay, we started in ~ June but already forgotten how long it's been.
This morning, despite the rain, we managed to get out with our garbage bags, gloves and pickers. Did the Neerhofstraat (pretty clean, perhaps due to strong winds yesterday) and went to the Frans Toch park.
Time: ~1.5 hours. Result: 1 x PMD bag + 1 x Restafval bag
I've got PMD bag and managed to see a lot of Jupiler, Cara Pils, not so much of Coke but few Fantas. There was quite a drought this summer and the 'lake' in the park significantly dropped its level. Compared to ~ 2-3 years ago (sorry, I didn't have any blog back then), I feel that on average the water level decreased to ~ 1 m and perhaps 50% of all of the water is gone (see the photo below). We just had a month with frequent showers, heavy showers but this doesn't bring water back. At least some good news - we now can go down and walk on the 'lake floor' and collect some garbage, which we couldn't reach before (yay).
Other good news - saw some mushrooms, i.e. fruit bodies of fungi, a couple of porites and a little frog; hornets, ducks (mallards) and woodpigeons and other birds are still around. So there is still some life.
I noticed that most of the trash was concentrated around the benches and the playground. It's indeed good and bad. I also took some photographs on 35 mm color film camera, I will post them later, let's see how it goes.
Next time, - in 1 - 2 weeks, thanks for reading!
Update (25-October-2025): some photos taken during the day 2 below:
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