Boats loaded, engines on, crew pumped, the Team Clean departed knowing that the journey around the South West was going to be bumpy as an understatement!! Three vessels of seven crew each, the boats punched into 4 metre waves making for a long night before we finally dropped anchor in Spain Bay around 3am. That’s when the skippers could finally relax & most of us could actually sleep rather than groan in our bunks.
Greeted by the local sea eagle pair checking out the new arrivals, the cleaning of Spain Bay beach began in earnest. Spain Bay is traditionally the first beach cleaned. For our return cleaners it was a welcome homecoming and for the new crew members an easy induction to the process of identifying macro and micro rubbish. There’s no doubt for those of Team Clean that have returned for many years to this place that the level of macro sized rubbish has decreased.
In part from Team Clean’s efforts and positive changes in how we all dispose of rubbish, but the levels of micro plastic continue to demonstrate how far we have to go. Your support of Team Clean and all our efforts to change the disposal of single use & other plastic- rubbishes is a community challenge we are all a part of. Today, we picked up 8,964 pieces of rubbish! Now, a bit of a rest overnight …. and off to the next beach in the morning.
Blog by Stevo. Photos by Ula.
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