"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Some of the largest baleen whales—such as blue whales, fin whales and humpbacks—fall into a family called rorquals that use an unusual method of feeding. These whales feed on aggregations of zooplankton and fish by lunging with their mouths open wide to tremendous gape angles to force huge volumes of water and prey into their expandable oral cavities. This extreme […]
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Once again thank you to the Mussel Rockstars! Despite the holidays, we had a great turn around: 18 volunteers. I think we all needed a break from the Christmas madness, and also get some exercise after eating too much good and heavy food. Today we picked up: 221 lb trash 20 lb recyclables 300 cigarette butts 10 bottle caps 5 straws […]
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Yesterday, I went to Sharp Park Beach and picked up 11.5lbs of trash. This included about 1.5 lbs or 35 pieces of blobs of tar. They range in size from a quarter to a small pancake. They are not sticky, but still very pliable and very aromatic. Has anyone else seen these? There are still a lot more there, mostly […]
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Right before the rain, 11 volunteers joined us on a short notice to clean Tunitas Creek before the rain. Unfortunately, because of the high tides, a lot of the trash was covered in sand when we arrived but we still cleaned up ~400 LBS of debris. From office chair, to ropes, beer cans and broken glass, our courageous team did […]
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Members of the Radiance Church of San Francisco and students from Westborough Middle School collected 80 pounds of trash at Sharp Park beachs’ monthly clean up. These 3 awesome students from Westborough Middle School helped me with PBC’s cigarette butt project. they filled pots with sand and distributed them all the way down the pier. they also picked up quite […]
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A major new study of the world’s oceans has reached a shocking conclusion: Thanks to humans, there are now over 5 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing more than 250,000 tons, floating in water around the world. With a global population of about 7.2 billion, that’s nearly 700 pieces per person. The study, published in the journal PLOS One by Marcus Eriksen of theFive […]
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This is what happens when garbage cans fall over in the rain and the wind. Your household trash gets carried down the street where it will wind up in the ocean. Please don’t put your trash cans out at night before a storm or secure them so they won’t fall over.
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Hello PBC members. Just wanted to share what was found in the stomach of a dead Northern Fulmar that I picked up from Linda Mar beach last week. The bird preparator at Cal Academy, where the bird ended up, found bits of plastic and plastic garden netting. It was probably the cause of death for this poor bird. It’s too […]
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With Thanksgiving near, I’m not thinking of turkey breast or sweet potatoes. I’m thinking about the ocean and my own health, because the two are tied intimately together. Besides working to educate and advocate for shark protection with Shark Stewards, I’m also a surfer and ocean swimmer. This week I had an operation to repair a rotator cuff, a tendon […]
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Dear Intrepid Mussel Rockstars! In the middle of a rainstorm with mist shrouding the area, we picked up trash from the Secret Waterfall, along Westline Drive, up to the car park. There were 12 of us, including Ian Butler, who arrived afterwards and recleaned the Secret Waterfall in case more trash arrived after we had visited it, due to the […]
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