Today we meet the people from the Surfrider Foundation Rincon Chapter. The Surfrider organization started about 30 years ago in Malibu, Ca. It started with a group of surfers which evolved into one of the largest non-profit grassroots organizations dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's ocean, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network for coastal conservation. Visit their website http://www.surfrider.org. There were a couple local volunteer groups and us from Planet 1. We took gloves and a bag and started picking up plastic and garbage left or that washed up on the beach. Plastic bags are not allowed to be distributed to customers in the stores in Rincon, they only use brown bags or people bring their own. The plastic often makes it way to the beach and into the ocean.
My mom stayed back with the Surfrider people while the rest of us did beach cleanup that morning. She really enjoyed talking with the people running Surfriders. They talked about the hazy formation seen over the sea traveling over Puerto Rico. Mom said it is an African sandstorm that is sprinkling microscopic dust particles all over the island and other islands in the Caribbean. If you look closely at the photos below, you can see it even though there was plenty of sun shining through. What she said is, "this isn't new and has been blowing from Africa across the Caribbean for as long as there’s been sand in the Sahara Desert." However, she was told that lately it is attracting more attention from regional scientists who believe that the clouds have grown and may now contain trace amounts of metals, microorganisms, bacteria, spores, and pesticides.
My mom stayed back with the Surfrider people while the rest of us did beach cleanup that morning. She really enjoyed talking with the people running Surfriders. They talked about the hazy formation seen over the sea traveling over Puerto Rico. Mom said it is an African sandstorm that is sprinkling microscopic dust particles all over the island and other islands in the Caribbean. If you look closely at the photos below, you can see it even though there was plenty of sun shining through. What she said is, "this isn't new and has been blowing from Africa across the Caribbean for as long as there’s been sand in the Sahara Desert." However, she was told that lately it is attracting more attention from regional scientists who believe that the clouds have grown and may now contain trace amounts of metals, microorganisms, bacteria, spores, and pesticides.