"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
41 amazing volunteers gathered on a cool sunny day to clean Montara Beach. Together, we removed 48 pounds of trash, 8 pounds of recyclables, 1.5 pounds of compost and 113 cigarette butts from the beach and the cliffs. Sadly and shockingly, two of our volunteers also found a body at the far northern portion of the beach. Our hearts go […]
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It was a gorgeous day at Montara beach Jan 11th, when 28 Earth Hero’s from all over the Bay Area picked up 60 pounds of trash, 14.5 pounds of recycling, 91 cigarette butts and 6 plastic straws. Special thank you this month to our junior site captain Ben, our naturalist Julie, and PBC’s Lynn Adam’s who stepped in at the […]
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18 Earth Heroes came out on a cold and blustery December morning to clean Montara Beach. Many volunteers reported this was the cleanest beach they had ever seen…yet together we were able to remove 29 pounds of trash, 6.5 pounds of recycling, and 110 cigarette butts from the beach and bluffs! In addition, we were able to rescue a 40 […]
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26 fabulous volunteers from the coast and all over the bay area braved the cold, the sun, and the cold again to clean up Montara beach this weekend. Together they collected a whopping 70 pounds of trash, 7 pounds of recycling and 146 cigarette butts! Their finds included: a cooler filled with unpleasant smelling liquid (ick!) an old dog harness […]
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A beautiful day greeted 27 volunteers at Montara State Beach. And so did the cigarette butts: 487 cig butts were collected, in addition to 22 lbs. of trash and 7 lbs. of recyclables. Volunteers came from San Carlos, Redwood City, San Mateo, Half Moon Bay, Pacifica, and Menlo Park to comb the beach, parkings lots, and roadside. Six volunteers from […]
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What a fabulous Coastal Cleanup day at Montara State Beach! The sun was shining over the 116 volunteers who came out to clean up the beach, the bluffs and the side of the road. Despite everyone reporting how clean the area is, we collected 28 pounds of recycling, 72 pounds of trash and 412 cigarette butts! We want to give […]
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The sun was shining, the fog to the north was gorgeous, and our four earth hero volunteers removed 9 pounds of recycling and trash and 105 cigarette butts from the beach and parking lots! We also loved having one of our naturalists, Julie, join us this month. She is a wealth of information, and several surfers and beach walkers stopped […]
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14 amazing volunteers showed the ocean some love today, on World Oceans Day at Montara Beach! It was a sunny day, with wildflowers were blooming, and lots of people on the beach. Once again, volunteers reported a very clean beach and bluff. But they still managed to pick up 10 pounds of recycling and 8 pounds of trash – including […]
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We had 12 amazing volunteers from Oracle, Hillsdale High School, and Half Moon Bay come out this beautiful May 11th ! Wildflowers were blooming, the sun managed to come out, and we were treated to a couple of whales passing by. The good news – the beach was pretty clean thanks to our Earth Day cleanup a two weeks ago, […]
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A record 95 volunteers from Half Moon Bay, Montara, Moss Beach, Freemont, San Carlos, Danville, Atherton, and Modesto came out for a huge Earth Day Cleanup at Montara State Beach! Together, they picked up 111 lbs of trash, 24 lbs of recycle, 65 bottle caps, 13 straws and 305 cigarette butts from the beach, parking lots and bluff. We also […]
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