LUCID - Check it out

Nick Damon and Simon Treweek have been kind enough to offer door takings from the Movie premiere's in Newcastle and on Tassies East Coast towards the Cleanup expenses. I caught the movie down in Hobart last week and it was awesome with a full house down at the second showing at the uni with a few of the stars in the audience. Door takings are gold coin donations so drop a few pennies in the jar. Total donations to this point $298.10. Yeow! Thanks again guys and best of luck with the rest of the shows.

Check out all the times and locations and the trailer at http://lucidthemovie.blogspot.com/

We are taking expressions of Interest for cleanup 2011

Things are looking up in 2011. We have secured ongoing funding from Patagonia and the Tasmanian Government so we are looking for a few more boats with an aim to get 8 more people around to help us out. If you know of anyone who would be keen please drop me an email.
Look out in the coming weeks for the silent auction for a place on the trip.
Do the right thing and put your rubbish in the bin!

TV Interview when we got home

Click the play button to play the news clip.

Art from Trash - Island Style

My good buddy Jon Hizzard has been playing with some of the bouys we collect on the cleanup. Check out the photos below of his creations. The drums are great hear his sounds at his myspace page. http://www.myspace.com/chinobwa

Paper Mach'e Drum - Cast from fishing bouy

Funky Light from Fishing Bouy

Djembe from Fishing Bouy and recycled timbers

Floor Lamp from Fishing bouy, Dif casing and headlight

Statistics from the Trip

Depending on which way you look at it this years trip was a outstanding success as we collected more rubbish than ever before or a dissapointing result in that people are still polluting this wonderfull planet. The statistics are the result of many hours of beachcombing and then painstaiking counting and tallying. The numbers provide insights into trends and likely sources of rubbish.

Below are two sets of graphs. The first are the 2010 graphs and below them are the 2001-2010 combined survey graphs. Click on the graphs to enlarge






The below graph shows the items collected for the Dirty Dozen between 2001-2010. Note that in 2009 the numbers are generally lower than other years. 2009 was the year we experienced the worst weather of any trip and spent the majority of the survey inside the protected waters of Port Davey. This meant we were unable to survey the west facing beaches that generally 'catch' most of the rubbish.

It is also worth noting that in 2007 we also surveyed 'Beercan Bay' and we see the same if somewhat smaller spike in Aluminium Cans.


More stats to follow in the coming weeks.

Home with a Record Haul

Loading the bags onto Haydens Truck

More Rope than you can poke a stick at

Unloading the large ropes, drums, bouys and larger items.

The large sorted bags ready for removal from the boat.

The good ship Velocity returned to port late yesterday with the full compliment of volunteers after a very rolly trip down Tassies SW coast. We left the Cheiftan G and Miss Carmen at 6 am Friday morning to finish fishing along the south coast before the next patch of weather hits early next week.

With the addition of the rubbish from Ketcham Bay and New Harbour (Beercan Bay) our final tally for the week was 17714 items. This is a new record haul by nearly 3000 items and a testament to the hard work of the team throughout the week.

We were met at the Dover wharf by Hayden Abbott and Dave who loaded the 2 tonnes rubbish onto Haydens truck with the forklift so it could be transported to the Huonville tip/recycling centre.

A big thanks to Patagonia and Pennicott Wilderness Adventures for their financial support and the Wursthaus, Gillespies Ginger Beer and Cascade for the help provisioning the troops, who along with the help from National Parks and Wildcare the cleanup could never have taken place.

I am slowly updating all the blog entries with photos from the days collecting including the daily immunity items which granted a night off from the dreaded rubbish count.

Velocity is at Dover unloading the booty!

Matt and the Crew have stepped off onto the Jetty at Dover and are busy clearing all the debris from the deck. They'll be back in the bright lights of Hobart this evening and no doubt be keen for a little celebration! So give them a call!

Matt will fill you all in on the totals and details of this years trip once he gets back to home base!

Thanks for following the blog, this is Jimmy signing out.