Final checks

Things have been running pretty smoothly over the last few days, the dry and fresh stores have been ordered from our generous sponsors at The Hill Street Grocers and the Wursthaus.  We have had the usual last minute hiccups with a few crew pulling out and one of the boats on a quick dash fishing mission up the North East coast. At this stage the Velocity, Odalisque and the Breaksea will try and get away early Wednesday to push along the south coast before an expected westerly change during the afternoon which will make travelling very unpleasant. The Diamantina will hopefully be departing from Margate around 6pm that evening.

6 Days to departure

Well its that hectic time of the year again when we start getting the boats and crews geared up for the ultimate beachcombing adventure.  This year the Velocity, Diamantina and Breaksea will be joined by Pieter van der Woude's new charter vessel the Odalisque II. This flotilla will take the largest contingent ever of volunteers to the remote beaches of Southwest Tasmania. Many thanks to the myriad of generous sponsors and particularly the fishermen for donating their vessels and expertise as none of the past 15 years efforts would be possible without them. We have a number of new faces joining the team this year and there short bios can be found on the Team page.

The weather for departure day and the few after that look interesting to say the least.
One thing is for sure its not going to be a nice calm trip along the bottom of Tasmania.

2015 Raffle

Fundraiser 27th December at the Republic Bar

Patagonia Web Movie Released

A big thanks to Mick Waters and the folks at Patagonia for putting together this short piece on last years cleanup. Enjoy this and other videos about the cleanup on the Movies page

ABC Open Cleanup Video

Have a look at the latest cleanup video produced by Troy Melville as part of the ABC Open project.

 
South West Cleanup from ABC Open Southern Tasmania on Vimeo.

Adrift: Tracking Plastics from the Source

This is seriously cool. Click the below link to try and work out where the plastic in your area is coming from.

Adrift Map