"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Words from Dig it Dave, our Roberts Road Site Captain: “This Earth Day I got to wear many hats. I got Team Dig It together to clean up Roberts Road. Sharon Van Huystee Martinez my other half did a great job organizing the team, sorting, and calculating. It was nice to see that we didn’t have much trash to pick […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
I think the Earth can be proud of us! At Pillar Point we had an amazing group of very motivated volunteers. Almost everyone showed up well before 9 AM and was ready for some action! The volunteers kept on coming with buckets and hands full of tires, pieces of wood or metal scraps. But thanks to Gina (from Apple), Nicole David, […]
Read more
Earth Day 2016- PBC’s 12th! As usual, Linda Mar’s Earth Heroes numbered over 100- this year, 159 signed in to help our otters and friends live a clean, healthy life in their ocean! So many veterans, so many first-timers, and all good-spirited, energetic souls dedicating their Saturday to helping clean the beach and ocean. Many, many individuals, Daisy Troop 61840, […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more