"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
We had a pretty incredible beach cleanup last Saturday despite the wind and a chilly breeze. 117 volunteers came to the coast to help remove marine litter from the beaches, jetty and shoreline. Julie, our naturalist, educated everyone about fishing line and the dangers of marine litter. Within 2 hours our volunteers picked up over 232 lbs of trash and […]
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Due to COVID-19 and the current circumstances we are cancelling our 2020 Earth Day of Action. It is with extreme sadness that we are cancelling the 2020 Earth Day of Action. We want everyone in our community to remain safe and healthy. Please still enjoy the Ocean and we hope that you can celebrate Earth Day and its 50th Birthday […]
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Rockaway Switchbacks Habitat Restoration: Postponed About the Restoration: The Rockaway Switchbacks and beach bluffs habitat restoration project started in 2015 with the question “what if”. What if we could tip the balance toward native plants and restore native habitat here? Restoring this landscape involves removing non-native invasive plants and weeds (i.e., mustard, thistle, fennel and ox tongue) followed-up by planting locally sourced […]
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Next Miramar Beach Cleanup: Postponed – from 9AM to 11AM About Miramar Beach, Half Moon Bay:Miramar Beach is located off highway 1 between Half Moon Bay and El Grenada and runs parallel to the Miramar Road. The Miramar Bluff contains a portion of the California Coastal Trail that heads north and south for bikers, runners, and walkers. It is a […]
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Wow! What a fantastic pier clean up we had yesterday thanks to all of your help. Here are some fun facts:61 volunteers not including PBC helpers. – 69 pounds of trash – 2000 cigarette butts (Helen was our smoking ambassador but for once no one was smoking on the pier!)Frank and Gail surveyed 109 visitors on the pier to find out […]
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We had a lot to celebrate today: So many faithful Mussel Rockstars, (a growing group of 15), who come out in rain or shine to beautify this area. I used funds from recycling to give out some fun gifts my husband found that were not made of plastic. Imagine! Some 5 years ago, it was just me! Now, there were […]
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The classroom activity package Winged Ambassadors – Ocean Literacy through the Eyes of Albatross is available free online courtesy of NOAA, Oikonos, and other partners. Albatrosses, charismatic and threatened seabirds, are ambassadors for a clean ocean because they traverse vast oceanic regions searching for floating food. Along their journeys, they ingest plastic trash and feed it to their chicks. These five lessons […]
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We read this article today about an organization name “Ocean Sentinel” that has specially equipped a fleet of 170 albatrosses with radar instruments used to detect potential illegal fishing vessels! Over six months they monitored more than 47 million square kilometers of the Southern Ocean, looking for vessels not using an automatic identification system (AIS). In the oceans, the surveillance […]
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We are happy to be partnering once again with the San Mateo County Libraries to deepen our education program. This year, the Pacifica Library will be doing a Book To Action with A Perfect Day for an Albatross book. Have you seen this book? The Author Caren Loebel-Fried is an award winning author and artist and made all the illustration […]
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Here is a very special piece made by Peter Winch who has been an Education Specialist at the Greater Farallones Association for the past 15 years. Before then Peter worked as a biological technician studying seabirds. He spent 5 months on French Frigate Shoals in 1996, and 3 months on Laysan Island in 1996/97.Peter also works as a naturalist for Oceanic Society where […]
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