Litter is always a problem along these beaches facing the Indian ocean. At the worst times it seems that every country from South Africa, the Middle East and past India and Java has up-ended their refuse trucks into the strongest of the ocean currents that run past their shores and all of it winds up along this hooked coastline of Bali. Even out west past the popular surfing beaches of Canggu, around the island temple of Tanah Lot and as far as Soka Beach, some 40 beach kilometres from Tuban, plastic drink bottles and ends of rope and twine can be found up the creek entrances, tangled around the roots and branches along the banks.
The beach at Tuban, on the northern side of the airport runway that juts out into the sea, is sheltered by the off-shore reef and therefore very safe and especially child-friendly but it is often scarred by small beds of dead and broken coral that are not kind to the feet. Not so frequently these days, but often in the past, pollution of the soft brown rock kind (read 'faeces') in dark water was also a definite deterrent.
