Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach getting the dreaded beach rake

Ray S ECenFL

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I read in a local paper today that Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral are waiting for the delivery of a special tractor to pull a mechanical beach-rake to "further the effort in keeping our beaches clean". :(

That will certainly have an impact on the hobby. The only saving grace is that they will not use the rake during the turtle nesting season.

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I really don't think the rake will interfere with the targets that much, most good targets sink deeper then the teeth of the rake.

If they wanted to do something about the trash they could just enforce the laws on littering and start ticketing people for throwing or leaving their trash on the beach. Make all cans and glass on the beach illigal (plastic okay), and littering fines for throwing cigarette butts on the ground.
 

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Don't worry about the rake at all. When I lived in Massachusetts, they would rake Revere Beach almost every other day in the summer and I found all sorts of good finds. It'll be alright, I promise!
 

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What do the beach rakes look like?

Do they do anything else to beaches?
 

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Pensacola Beach got a couple of those bastages shortly after Hurricane Ivan in 2004. It's pretty hard to find good loot unless you go immediately after a storm or have a large coil for deep targets. You just know the guys operating those things are literally "raking it in" ;D.

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