Photo of mermaid on rubbish-filled Kuta beach welcomes Bali’s tidal trash wave this year

No one (that we know, anyway) dreams of encountering a mermaid lying amid a pile of rubbish on a Monday, but that’s exactly the sight that a bystander caught this morning on Kuta Beach, a photo of which has been widely circulating across community accounts on Instagram.

The photo of a woman dressed in turquoise-colored mermaid costume is currently making its rounds online, as she lay on the beach with piles of plastic waste surrounding her.