Also in NZ, I saw a promotion for a book sale where they have distributed painted rocks in a local park for the kids to collect and take to the book sale to get a free book (and keep the rock). So presumably not many will be left in the “wild” this time.
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Oh that is quite a lovely idea!
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Here’s some of my more interesting beach trash, the purple dinosaur wind-up is a Land Before Time Burger King toy from the 1990s, and then my handless sitting batman of course.
Also various doll arms (for some reason just the arms), old fishing lures, shrimp bait containers etc
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I don’t think it counts as racism, or even cultural appropriation. In Northern Canada the Inuit used Inukshuk for a number of reasons (https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/inuksuk-inukshuk). I suspect the rock stacking stems more from ignorance than willful racism.
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Strangest find lately was a green devil candle, complete with request for return of the money stolen.
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I recall reading an article from Vancouver Island, BC about shoes that regularly wash up on some beach on the coast. Except there have been at least a few that still had a foot in them. It was explained that the buoyancy of the shoe allows that part of a decaying corpse to float along until it washes up on a beach.
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Were you birding in the Uncanny Valley?
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I saw similar one:
One of cave postaments
Unknown construction
Probably just lost ones, but looked weird.
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Looks like some kind of hide.
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Roy Batty — the formative years.
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Reminds me of when I was young, around age 6 or 7. I found a Playboy magazine in the small bush where I hung out, and was quite intrigued. I went home and asked my mum and dad if we had any Playboy magazines around the house! I’m not sure if they understood what it was, but they were very non-judgemental.
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gives me the creeps!
maybe some kind of a demon stole the money 
The strangest thing I found (or maybe not), was a police tape wrapped around a whole section of trees in an allotment, and there were two chairs right in the middle of the taped area.
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Maybe, but this candle was targeting a rather mundane sounding full name.
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I find things like that all the time. Mittens, shoes, hats, and now face masks can be found strung on trees throughout the GTA. I never understood how people lose their clothing like that.
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I lost my old flip-phone while wading through dense brush on a hike. It was clipped to my belt and I discovered it was gone when I got back to my car. I went home, borrowed my wife’s cellphone, and returned to the area, dialing my phone number repeatedly. Eventually I found it by following the ring, hanging from a bush at waist height.
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Often someone who finds things put it on sticks so owner will have easier time to find it, though I remember finding my glove peaking out from melting spring snow.)
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