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Surf and Bay fishing, Bird watching,
Beach adventuresCaptain Billy L. Sandifer 84l Flour Bluff Dr.
Corpus Christi, Tx. 784l8 36l-937-8446
email Billysandifer@stx.rr.com
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The 10th Annual Big Shell Beach Clean-Up will be held Saturday, March 05, 2005. Volunteers will meet at the Malaquite Pavilion located on the Padre Island National Seashore no later than 7:A.M. Everyone is welcome. Volunteers without 4WD vehicles will be furnished rides in and out of the work area. Volunteers with 4WD vehicles to haul volunteers in and out of the work area and to haul trash and pull trash trailers are especially needed and are the backbone of this event. Trailers for hauling trash are also needed. Call Tyler at 361 991 8910 or Billy at 361 937 8446.
Rugged clothing is recommended; long sleeve shirts, long pants, a cap and gloves. HEB has provided water drinks and snacks for the volunteers down island. Trash bags will be provided. Volunteers will be divided into groups with an experienced group leader and will be assigned a particular stretch of beach to clean. Once this stretch is cleaned all volunteers will work to the south cleaning as much beach as possible prior to 1:00 p.m. All volunteers are to be back at the Malaquite pavilion no later than 2:00 p.m. This year we have Daniel Dain and his crew from the Corpus Area Domino's Pizza restaurants providing Pizza and the Corpus Chapter of CCA will also be cooking hotdogs and serving drinks for the volunteers at Malaquite after the cleanup.
Frank Floyd of Wind and Wave has donated four one day kayak rentals
for us to give away. Smartshield
Sunscreen will be passed
out to the volunteers as will Fishbite samples. While they last we will have
commemorative t-shirts passed out to volunteers once they are
in line with their section leaders. Here is what the front will
look like. Special thanks to Chuck at Texmaps who helped a bunch
with the initial design and accuracy.
Volunteers with 4WD vehicles who arrive late are welcome and can simply drive south on the beach till they encounter a work force and join them.
Do not bag medical waste, broken glass and pressurized containers. Bring them to the attention of your Section leader and let him deal with them. Do not attempt to clean far back into the dunes and remember Rattlesnakes are present in the vegetated areas in and behind the fore dunes.
Since it’s beginning in 1995, 1,518 volunteers have removed 319 tons of trash from the beaches of the Big Shell.
Special thanks to our media sponsors too Gulf Coast Connections,
The Padre Island Moon, David Sikes and the Corpus Christi Caller
Times, and the Saltwater Angler.
See you on Saturday March 5th!
Sincerely,
Captain Billy
Here are just some of the
scenes from last year's event.
