While looking for a place to pull my kayak up on the beach so I could hike up the hill to explore an huge old factory I spotted what looked like a clearing. Upon closer examination, it turned out to be a denuded area (devoid of vegitative life). The 'trail' I thought I found was actually a pathway that surface runoff was following, based on the blue tint to many things in the path, the runnoff was contaminated.