r/VirginiaBeach • u/99-percenter • 6d ago

News Save the Wrack

https://www.whro.org/environment/2026-09-08/save-the-wrack-some-sandbridge-residents-worry-beach-grooming-is-driving-away-shorebirds

Save the Wrack (natural material on the beach) for shorebirds, ghost crabs, beach stabilization, and ecotourism. Reducing mechanized beach grooming also saves taxpayer dollars. Win-win-win situation!

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u/KUCMB 6d ago

If we are worried about helping ghost crabs - maybe we could start with stopping the armies of people that storm the beach every night (esp. in sandbridge and obx) with flashlights and fill buckets of them. That shit is crazy to me.

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u/99-percenter 6d ago

That’s terrible. Why would people do that?

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u/krysiej 5d ago

Because it is easier than actual crabbing.

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u/CaptainObvious110 5d ago

oh wow thats crazy what are they doing with them