You feel dirty just looking at it.

This dumping ground of trash was uncovered in the shrubbery just yards from one of the Island's most prominent golf courses.

Scores of discarded soda cans, water bottles and beer cans surround a dumped mattress at the foot of a Palmetto tree.

Food wrappers, batteries and mounds of old clothes are also in evidence. While it looks like a homeless person may have been sleeping here, another pile of garbage several metres away is testament to the public's general carelessness in disposing of their trash.

Both sites are situated on a corner of Ocean View Golf Course off Barkers Hill, amid flora and fauna such as purple Morning Glories and Bermudianas.

Just off the road, the second spot littered with food wrappers and drink cans is more open and noticeable.

"Some people will just park up, sit down and have lunch here," says Richie Lathan, executive director of Keep Bermuda Beautiful.

He says he finds it ironic that some of the Island's worst littered sites are within walking distance of the Tynes Bay treatment plant. "This is a very badly affected area. Barkers Hill flows into Vesey Street and also Parsons Lane, which are other areas illegally dumped on," says Mr. Lathan.

"They are little country lanes which are well-travelled but not crowded, so invariably people will dump in these areas.

"Despite being within a block of Tynes Bay, we have some of the worst dumped areas here on the Island."

As Barkers Hill filters into North Shore Road, Mr. Lathan points out another two badly littered sites.

One is an abandoned stone hut containing an Aladdin's Cave of garbage and unwanted household goods.

Today, a team in the '100 Sites Clean-Up' will endeavour to bag up everything from clothing, plastic patio chairs, window frames, tarpaulins, stepladders, a radio, batteries, nails, a broken parasol, an old mattress and even a snowglobe.

Mr. Lathan says it is hard to imagine that just beyond your car window, behind the bushes as you travel along North Shore, garbage is strewn along the shoreline.

"These sites are only a small part of a larger problem,' he says.

"The proliferation of roadside litter, especially bottles casually thrown from passing vehicles or left on the shore by people fishing from the rocks, is really a key aspect of our litter problem."

KBB are looking for volunteers to help in this weekend's clean-up. Please contact KBB at: 295 5142 or email: kbb@northrock.bm