Snapper Island Clean Up Photos

Sunday 7th March saw over 40 Port Douglas volunteers gather for Clean Up Australia Day. They split into 8 teams covering Four Mile Beach and the roadway form Port Douglas to Mowbray Bridge and collected over 50 large bags of refuse including an ancient “keep left” road sign. All volunteers enjoyed a free Barbecue afterwards by the Treetops lagoon pool, courtesy of the local branch of the CBA and the Rotary Club.

 The organisers, form Port Douglas Rotary Club and Blue Dive, were thrilled with the large turnout and wanted to thank all those that turned up and in particular the great turn outs from the CBA,  Pandanus Caravan Park, Latitude 16, Treetops Resort and Bendigo Bank. They are also confident that the event  will be even bigger next year.

Join local surfer Jimmy Dell in the Goat's Beach marine debris cleanup over the weekend of March 13th and 14th. An early surf at Rebounds, Hobart, Tasmania to get everyone motivated will be followed by a couple of hours for a beach cleanup. The plan is to target marine debris on the eastern part of the beach, with data being collated to add to the National Marine Debris Database.  

The guys will be surfing around 8am with the clean up starting around 10am if the weather cooperates! For volunteers who may arrive after 10am park at either middle goats or north goats carpark and walk down the beach to meet the crew.  Bring all the normal things you'd bring to a day at the beach (sunscreen, hat, snacks, water etc).

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On Saturday January 30th, a dedicated group of sixteen people gathered together to clean up the area around the Jurien Bay Marina. This followed a meeting last November in which a Coast Care Group was formed to help look after the beach and adjoining areas each side of town.

By the time the job was completed, about 11.00am, something like three cubic metres of rubbish had been collected, of which an estimated 75% had come from fishing boats.  Plastic wrapping from bait boxes, hundreds of metres of ropes made up the main lot of rubbish, along with drink cans and bottles, plastic containers, both food and beverage types.  Among the more disgusting finds were disposable nappies, apparently thrown overboard and washed ashore.

The report can be downloaded in the Western Australian section of the Resources and Downloads area.

The 2009 Far North Queensland Marine Debris Project data results have now been colated and published. This report is now available to download from the Far North Queensland section of the Resources and Downloads area.