Beachcombing on Turtle Beach

Three years ago I retired to Turtle Beach, on the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand.  Since then I've wandered the beach once or twice a day, collecting very specific articles of man-made plastic trash which I approach as free art materials.  I was the first foreigner to ever walk in the Turtle Day Parade, beside a float I made myself out of reclaimed cigarette lighters.  That first turtle has been installed permanently in the Visitors Center of the Haad Thai Muang National Park, a protected turtle nesting habitat.  I continue to make turtle-themed art (craft?  Compulsion?) with the trash I bring back from the beach.  So far I have a dozen "rhinestone reptiles" installed in front of restaurants, coffee shops, and other businesses in Turtle Beach.