Beach Cleanup for SEAWEEK

BRIGHTON BEACH CLEANUP

Sunday March 6th 10am - All welcome to come along and help out.
A group from Big Rock Boardriders will work their way along the coast towards Taieri Mouth to pick up rubbish in the car lay-bys where the freedom campers frequent.
Please meet at 10am by the Skip

A DCC contractor will deliver two really big wheelie bins to the Brighton Beach carpark at about 9am on Sunday March 6. Collected rubbish can go in the bins, or if there is a lot, it can be stacked within a 2 meter radius of the bins. This will all be taken away by the contractor at or after 1pm the same day. While we still have a central collection point at Hancock Park, St Kilda, rubbish will be going straight into a skip without sorting and weighing as the dirty rubbish cannot be recycled.

:: VID :: Earth Hour - Night Surf

Earth Hour Night Surf from Nic Reeves on Vimeo.

Earth Hour is a global WWF climate change initiative where everyone is invited to switch off their lights for one hour on March 27 at 8.30 p.m to show their support for action on climate change. People across the world from all walks of life will turn off their lights and join together in celebration and contemplation of the one thing we all have in common – our planet.

Big Rock Boardriders decided to host a night surf between those hours to show their support.
Music by Dunedin musicians Junk Shop Star www.earthhour.org

Brighton Coastal Cleanup for Seaweek -14th March

Seaweek 2010 - Fish for the Future!

The 4th Annual Seaweek 'Dunedin Coastal Cleanup' is on again this year
Sunday the 14th of March 2010.
With support from the Dunedin City Council and the Department of Conservation

Jay and Nic are again organising a coastal cleanup in conjunction with the Great Dunedin Coastal Cleanup & Seaweek again with the support of Big Rock Boardriders

You are most welcome to join in with our local crew, no matter where you live.

We will be setting off into groups to clean up the Brighton Domain, Ocean View, and down along the coast towards Taieri Mouth. If there are enough people we will send a group off to Blackhead as well. Please register your support by emailing me.

Meet at: Sunday 14th March 10am meeting at the top domain at Brighton at 10am, anyone else from town is most welcome to join us

Rubbish collected will be taken to Hancock Park, St Kilda (corner Victoria Rd and John Wilson Dr) from 12.30 to 2.30pm for rubbish weighing, recycling and disposal.

Please bring: Water bottle, sturdy shoes preferably gumboots, sun hat, sun-block, raincoat, warm clothes. Rubbish bags and gloves will be supplied. We hope you can join us.

Prizes: At the weigh in, there will be prizes for most rubbish collected and strangest item found. There will be Seaweek 'Fish for the Future' displays & activities, videos, Free sausage sizzle, prize giving and Rocky Shore Guide launch!

Hancock Park Festivities start at 12.30pm, prize-giving from 3 to 3.30pm. Hosted by the Dunedin City Councils' great Dunedin Coastal Cleanup.

Other Seaweek Activities:

• Dunedin City Council Wild Life of an Estaury Seaweek Poster Compeition
• Young marine leaders competition
• Short stories from young people
• Otago Changing Seas Symposium see here
  

More information on events during Sea Week, please follow this link
or go to http://www.seaweek.org.nz/

Heres looking for a better turnout than we did last year ( see previous blog post here)

Seaweek

Clean up in the 8th of March has now been postponed due to a clash with the karitane Surf festival