There were tar balls at Portofino, but also cleanup crews. I don’t know if 0bamao and his band of idiots plan to have cleanup crews on every beach indefinitely, but I guess it is one way to get the unemployment figures down.
I didn’t see any cleanup workers. At one point, a helicopter flew over about 50 feet over the surf, obviously surveying the area. There’s no way they can keep the beaches clean based on the rate the tar balls are washing in. I don’t even know why they’d bother until after they contain the spill.
$18 to $32 per hour to clean up seems a bit high to me, although it requires 12 hour shifts for some reason.