"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
It was a wonderful surprise that 20 students from San Mateo College arrived early to join the Mussel Rockstars today (photo above). One of the students brought her 3-year-old daughter who was heard to squeal with delight at retrieving some trash from a bluff. She danced around afterwards and made us all laugh out loud (photo at right). This is […]
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From Kristine’s blog, our new site captain at Montara State Beach. Completing over 52 days of beach cleanups this year, I can now say the hardest aspect of doing them, is being on the front lines of environmental pollution on a daily basis. It is not actually getting to the beach and picking up the trash, but merely witnessing the disregard […]
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Bay Area High School Team Serves and Learns By: Jackson Confer – following a volunteer workday for their team led by the Pacific Beach Coalition at Linda Mar State Beach The beaches of Northern California are the beaches that I’ve grown up on, and I never realized exactly how polluted they were until I took part in a recent beach cleanup though the […]
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Woaw, what a day! I am proud to say that today was a record in pounds of trash picked up: 366lbs! It is sad to see that there is still this much trash on our Pillar Point beach even after 2 years of hard work. But, this is also the number of pounds that won’t kill the wildlife or pollute […]
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Twelve volunteers, new and repeat volunteers, joined forces to clean the area of Mussel Rock on Saturday, 23 January, 2016. Site captain, Helen, celebrated the imminent closure of the Transfer Station by baking cookies and sharing them with everyone. There was some discussion about the demolition of the Transfer Station and what should be built in its place. We discussed […]
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Thank you for helping clean the beach at Montara State Beach on Sunday, January 17, 2016. We couldn’t have done it without you! With your help we removed: At least 50 pounds of trash, including– 3 paper bags 18 plastic bags 1 balloon 20 glass bottles 17 plastic bottles 15 cans 79 caps and lids 65 cigarette butts 6 disposable […]
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It was chilly and blustery, but 13 brave volunteers did a great job of cleaning Rockaway Beach and environs. Notably, 4 high school students from Irvington High School were there for the 2nd consecutive month to work on a class project. They still have 2 months to go. They put in 3 hours of hard work and were fun to […]
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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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Do you remember our post about the broken plastic piece found in Mussel Rock? Well, this is the incredible latest update from Jeff Christner: “Here are the pieces together, the characters are: 高橋漁業 which basically means Takahashi Fishery. This could be from the Takahashi manufacturing company, but I did find a business in Hokkaido, with the same name, and that […]
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