"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
What a wonderful day we had at Manhattan/OC/Ocean Course/3 Rocks/Pelican* beach today. The sun was out, also was the wind but it mostly helped cool the air. Our 54 volunteers, including our Green Team from Gunn High School, came to pick up trash and helped us lead the cleanup. Together we collected 17.5 lbs of trash, 7 lbs of recycling, […]
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Our friend and board member Claudia has been going back and forth from the coastline to the mountains over the past couple years. And here a note from her journey. Thank you Claudia for bringing the PBC spirit everywhere you go! Hello fellow Earth Heroes, I’m always curious about other communities litter issues…always hopeful to not find any, but alas, […]
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This is the high tide line on the beach at Mussel Rock today. Plastic pieces were everywhere! Many were just too small to even pick up. Found these items too, lots of shotgun shell wadding/hulls today. Two items of note are under the garden claw. The pink thing in the middle is a hair curler type thing that I suspect […]
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Our volunteer Jeff went to the Secret Waterfall shortly after Christmas and he took some pictures of the trash he collected. Here is his report: “Did a little hike and cleanup at the secret waterfall yesterday. There was far too much debris for any one person to get, probably due to the recent rains. I was able to move some […]
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Claudia, a volunteer and member of the Steering Committee sent us an email from Hawaii after she went on the beach to watch the sunrise. During her walk, she picked up some trash, and here is her report: “I ventured out after a huge storm passed through last night to see the sun rise and I found this… I’ve […]
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Thank you to Earth Heroes Céline Gerakin Pillar Point site captain, San Mateo County Park Ranger Rob Cala and others who cut and removed this stranded boat. For a week this sailing vessel has been in the mind of the locals and the community helped every single day to secure and dissemble the boat before it could break up and […]
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Report from our Mussel Rock volunteer Jeff Christner: “Did a quick post Earth Day hike around Mussel Rock at low tide today and the beach was mostly accessible, albeit with some dangerous climbing over some of the sea wall rocks. Found a sea lion, who I thought was dead at first, but I think he was just resting, he soon […]
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Jeff Christner reports: “Even though the official Mussel Rock cleanup was cancelled, we went anyway due to concern I had about the styrofoam and crates still washing up from the containers that went overboard from the ship a couple weeks ago. We ended up with one intact bread crate, pieces of several more, and a 1/2 a large green garbage […]
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Beach Cleanup by Marj Davis: “Here is my bounty for today at the south end of the levee beach, everything in front of, and including, the big piece of metal, which I dragged up the cliff and handed to a very helpful young man who was jogging and hauled it down to the can for me (I loaned him my […]
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Went to Mussel Rock Beach today with my dog. Found about 100’+ feet of rope washed up and lots of small flat plastic pieces. I had to bundle up the rope like you see here to be able to haul it back up to the parking lot for disposal.
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