Students in Grade 6 & 7 from St Augustine's Primary School in Mossman have been learning about marine debris in class and last week Heidi Taylor from Tangaroa Blue visited the school to give a presentation about marine debris along the Queensland coast.
Today, 22 students and their teacher Mr Mullane, visited Cooya Beach, their local stretch of coastline to see what marine debris they could find while participating in a beach clean up.
In just one hour students removed over 105 kilograms of debris from the shoreline, helping to keep their local beach clean!
St Augustine’s School, Mossman, shadowed by the magnificent Mt Demi, is situated 76 kilometres north of Cairns within a rural farming community on the edge of the naturally beautiful Daintree Rainforest and the lush green vegetation of Mossman Gorge. In addition, the popular beaches of the tourist town of Port Douglas are only 16 kilometres to its south.
Monday, 23 November 2009 10:25 | 
Written by Heidi Taylor | 
