Staff from the Herald on Sunday swapped pens and notebooks for gloves and gumboots to take part in a Beach Busters clean-up this week.
The intrepid crew got down and dirty on Tuesday at two secluded beach areas near Birkenhead on Auckland's North Shore.
Editors, reporters and photographers were shocked to fill several large sacks with rubbish within two hours, including dozens of non-degradable plastic bags, straws and lolly sticks that had washed up on the shore.
Editor Bryce Johns emerged from the mangroves clutching a full turntable deck.
There was more excitement when reporter John Weekes stumbled across a black bag containing a heavy orb, that some joked might give us a lead story.
