Rotaract Club of Santa Barbara » Surfrider

Earn Good Karma at the Beach

Liz — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:58:41 +0000

This Saturday we’re going to have a good time and keep a lot of trash out of the ocean. Here’s the plan:

What: A nice walk to the beach during which you happen to pick up a lot of trash. Surfrider Foundation will provide bags and gloves. There’s no nicer way to earn volunteer hours.

When: Saturday, August 15, at 10 a.m. – Noonish

Where: Ellwood beach bluffs. We’ll meet at the corner of Phelps and Cannon Green.

Directions: 101 North to Glen Annie/Storke. Exit and turn left toward the ocean. Pass Hollister and the shopping center. Turn right on Phelps (a light). Go straight until the road curves sharply to the right. Park on the dirt to your left and look for us!

Next steps: (1) Please RSVP to liz@sbrotaract.com to confirm that you can attend. (2) Invite more friends. If enough people sign up, we’ll bring donuts, too.

Why: We like clean, safe beaches and healthy oceans, dolphins and fish.

Take 30 Seconds to Protect the Gaviota Coast

Liz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:12:25 +0000

The Santa Barbara Surfrider chapter is a finalist in Barefoot Wine’s Beach Rescue Project to get $5,000 toward its efforts to protect the Gaviota Coast.

It’s a popularity contest, and Surfrider needs online votes to win. It’s in the lead, but another organization has been catching up more and more every day.

You can vote here once a day, every day, from now through August 15. I’ve bookmarked the page and vote every morning. Above is a photo of a small, already protected, part of the Gaviota Coast taken from inside a cave along the Gaviota Trail.

We Cleaned the Beach!

SB Rotaract — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:48:37 +0000

There is less trash on a Goleta beach now thanks to the hard work of 11 Rotaractors and 2 Surfrider volunteers who spent a couple of hours on Saturday morning cleaning up a beach near Ellwood. They donned latex gloves and struggled with fragile corn-starch trash bags to collect all sorts of trash that would otherwise have washed out into the ocean.

Great work, team! Photos are posted on our Flickr page.

Special thanks to Surfrider for joining us, teaching us a bit about the coast and giving us very cool canvas bags so that we can use plastic ones less often in the store.