Magical Beach Turned To Trash
2017 CE • Costa Rica
Diving off the coast of Costa Rica is as beautiful as you would imagine. Yet just as sad to come back a few years later to see a once magical beach turned into trash and an extraordinary array of ocean life gone.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022
Image: Alex W via Flickr, Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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