"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
We arrived at 7:45 this morning to set up for Coastal Cleanup Day, 2015 to find NO PARKING. NONE! Why? A big surf competition, Surf Camp, whale-watchers, dog-walkers and just people loving our precious ocean environment! But beach heroes are not deterred by people problems; they are much more dedicated than that. So they came. From parking lots near and […]
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Thanks to all the volunteers who came to Rockaway Beach today. It was a stunning morning = clear and warm. 12 pounds of trash (mostly lightweight items – filled a large garbage bag. 5 pounds of recycles. 650 cigarette butts. Thanks, Pacificans.
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After almost 3 months of daily excitement surrounding sightings of whales fluking, spyhopping, breaching and spouting, we have had an influx of large flocks of birds, circling the bait balls as they move up and down the shore. Not surprisingly, this has brought lots of viewers to the car park at Mussel Rock. Unfortunately, they have left behind a lot […]
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Woooaaaw and EW! I think these two words were on everyone’s mouth this morning… The trash situation is a getting out of hand at Tunitas Creek and this is unfortunately not the only concern. People have been camping over night by the dozen (last weekend 170 cars were counted on the side of the road) and there are no toilets at […]
Read moreThanks to the volunteers that made today’s cleanup at Rockaway Beach a success. We had some new volunteers…Thanks, Joanna, for signing up! Totals for 8/1/15: Trash: 17 pounds Recycles: 12 pounds Volunteers: 12 Cigarette Butts: 1143
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41 people from the fireworks booths showed up at 7:30 AM to help clean up debris from the previous evening’s fireworks at Rockaway Beach. Public Works handled most of the sign ins and sign outs for the fireworks people. 8 volunteers for the PBC also helped. General consensus is that there was less debris than last year. Thanks to […]
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We were blessed with sightings of whales and new out-of-town volunteers, comprising a party of 8 deaf adolescents visiting with their church pastor and 2 chaperone interpreters from Texas. The day was warm and sunny. We welcomed new volunteers who were very enthusiastic about their task to clean up the Mussel Rock area. Most of them wanted to swim in […]
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After what seems like months of cold overcast weather, the sun shined today and an awesome Genentech Give Back team soaked it up while cleaning the beach and parking lots from the Pedro Point Shopping center to the Rockaway bluff. We did it! And oh how about Pedro Point! Finding lots of Velella Velella, a chunk of […]
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Team Two of the Genentech Give Back crew started their internships by taking a trip to Pacifica, cleaning the Rockaway beaches and waterfront and removing weeds along the bike path descending to Linda Mar State Beach. Fun was the first order of business, oh and meeting each other! But then this team got down to business collecting 14 pounds of plastic […]
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