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The endless ebb of the ocean as it ascends onto the shore of Santa Cruz, reminds me of the endless cycle of life, the life of the Santa Cruz like the waves on that shore life peaks and than recedes in an endless natural cycle. But if you add in unforeseen variables into the equation, the waves that were once so pristine predictable and calm, becomes rapid and unpredictable. So what are these unforeseeable variables that I am talking about, well it could be anything from a plastic bag that carried your cans of soup and just slipped out of your blue recycle bin, or that nice Styrofoam cup that held your vanilla frappacino that foggy sunday morning, or even a balloon, yes a simple red helium filled balloon that you see at countless birthday parties, but you may ask how can those little cup and little plastic bags do so much harm to such a huge island with such a large and diverse population so isolated off the coast California, and the answer is simple, the answer is numbers, loads of pounds of trash are scattered between the southern coast of California and the coasts of the channel Islands, Santa Cruz being the biggest and the one with the most miles of coast it is the one being most devastated by this phenomena called pollution. One plastic bag, one styrofoam cup and a balloon may not seem like a lot but add to that countless people that loose plastic bags each day or countless styrofoam cups that don’t end up in their respectable trash cans, and what about those balloons you see flying in the sky sure they may be nice to look at but sooner or later they will come down and considering that the ocean is just right around the corner its safe to assume that the balloon will touch down on the channel between the coast and the channel Islands. Trash yes its everywhere but we don’t seem to mind it we just look the other way, but animals out in the channel and on the islands don’t know any better, to some fish plastic bags look like nice delectable fish and to some other fish Styrofoam bits look really good, so as you may see from these examples, that as more and more trash is dump into the sea more and more sea bearing animals eat this trash thus causing them to die from the lack of nutrition they can gather from eating trash, so if one pod of fish dies from the eating of trash, that is one less pod of fish that is swimming in the ocean one less pod of fish that is able to be eaten so less food more predators looking for less food less predators being feed means less predators staying alive, thus those predators are someone’s prey and thus since there is less of them less survive more die. The lives of the wildlife on Santa Cruz island is directly tied to the ocean and the wildlife in the ocean, When I went to Santa Cruz I saw pelicans diving for there food, but rarely did I see any of the pelicans eat any fish so  that got me wondering why aren’t those pelicans eating any of the fish they dive down for?, isn’t that what they are built for diving down and catching fish?, but a reason for those pelicans not getting any fish is that there are less fish in the ocean to be caught because there is trash that kills the multitude of fish thus pelicans can’t find any fish to eat thus they die causing more animals that hunt pelicans looking for others things to eat, thus disrupting the food chain of Santa Cruz island. This is what I saw when I went to Santa Cruz.=

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