I thought that I could completely escape the pollution here in Hainan Island but the sad realization as I walked on the beach today is that pollution in China is everywhere. I can’t believe how many dead fish I saw on the beach. The sea is very dirty, has a brownish color and there’s a lot of garbage in the water. I don’t have the courage to swim in it. The sand is mixed with a blackish sediment that looks like oil waste. But the most shocking thing is that, as I was walking on the beach with my feet in the sea, I saw something agitating in the water. It almost scared me. It was a fish that was trying to swim, and all of sudden landed on the shore and died right in front of me. It’s the big fish in the top left corner of the picture. I like to fish and I saw many fish die in front of me. But seeing a fish dying in agony like that, probably suffocated by the pollution, was indeed terribly sad. I will never forget that…