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There will be another beach clean and litter survey in Campbeltown Loch this year on Sunday September 17th. This date is to coincide with all the other communities who clean their beaches and survey them for the Marine Conservation Society Beachwatch 2006 event. The information gained from the survey provides valuable data which is used to help conserve our marine environment.
Volunteers are needed to take part in this worthwhile event. Last year we had 30 volunteers and cleaned most of the beaches within the loch. Unfortunately 30 people were not enough to completely clean all the beaches and this year we are hoping for more volunteers. A risk assessment will be carried out and volunteers will be provided with rubber gloves. Young volunteers will also be provided with litter pickers. There will be a free barbeque in the evening after the beach clean for all volunteers. If you would like to volunteer please register for the event and details will be sent to you - either send a pm or phone Mary on 553192 or Isobel on 552514

just a late reminder!

Great day, good turnout, a real sense of achievement for a worthwhile cause.
Superb burgers too Mary.


petewick

petewick wrote:Great day,

The rain was a nuisance but a good day out petewick and good company at Beachmenoch barbecue.

I was with Robert, Ian, Stuart and five young boys who were very willing workers.

Bags and bags of rubbish lifted and taken off the shore. The majority of the items lifted were fast food packaging, plastic milk containers and heavy duty rubber gloves as used by fishermen.

petewick wrote:Great day, good turnout, a real sense of achievement for a worthwhile cause.
Superb burgers too Mary.

petewick

Enjoyed my day out (bribed by Jeanette ) with a great bunch of folk willing to keep the shoreline clean and safe. About 40 volunteers turned up, weather miserable at first, but turned out nice later. Enjoyed the banter from Peter and Ronnie. Thanks to the Turner family for food and refreshments, catch you all next year. Lost some of the pics, camera mode moved by mistake.

Litter gathered at Sailing Club.



Litter bags at Dalitober.



Sad sight with the dead Gulliemonts along the esplanade .



Gathering for the barbecue and two hungry chaps





Small helper on the day.



What a view from Beachmenoch.



Peter and Ronnie, my two companions for the day.

Well JD and Pete - it was an experience to meet you both in the flesh! Seriously, you were both great and thanks for all the help and the pics. Thanks also to all the others who braved the rain and worked so hard - we all got soaked but I think we all felt it was worth it - and the beaches are a joy to behold! The Council were good too and had all the bags lifted by 10am on Monday - estimated 200 + bags. They were away to weigh it when I last saw them and Angus got a photo but haven't heard back yet. the p got some photos too and I'm sure he will be putting them somewhere in due course.
More Good News - SW has agreed to clear up the sewage related debris below the Esplanade - let's hope this is the sart of a new lease of life for the loch.
Thanks again and hope to see you all again next year!

Cheer's Mary

Enjoyed the day out and chatting to old friends. Hope the burgers are not off this breed of beast

www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NR7518

and have I got his name right? Click on picture of Raging bull to enlarge.

jdcarra

Yes, you have the name right. He's usually very quiet but is feeling a little frustrated at the moment as he's "on holiday" and is away from the cows. Good photos - must ask the p what's happened to his.

mary wrote:Yes, you have the name right. He's usually very quiet but is feeling a little frustrated at the moment as he's "on holiday" and is away from the cows. Good photos - must ask the p what's happened to his.

Sorry Mary, been away and now have literally hundreds of photos to post on various matters. Finally get the first phase of the house work out the way so hopefully will get back to normality over the winter and get back to regular posting.

I actually have been thinking of posting all the local news etc under the www.campbeltown.info website for sometime now and have been looking at various ways to do this etc.

In fact less speaking and more photo posting is just as quick! Doh!

Along Low Askomil



At trenchpoint with help from some local kids



More to follow...

And finally the bbq as JDCarra impresses some locals with his Carradale yarns!

Hey! It's Tinky-Winky!

What was he doling there?

Saw Angus Ward today and he told me that the 200+ bags of litter we all cleared from the loch on Sept 18th weighed nearly 1.5 tons. Well done and thanks to all - and all the beaches within the loch still look better than they did before and the wildlife will benefit from a cleaner environment! Will post the report of the litter survey which will go to the Marine Conservation Society soon.

mary wrote:Saw Angus Ward today and he told me that the 200+ bags of litter we all cleared from the loch on Sept 18th weighed nearly 1.5 tons. Well done and thanks to all - and all the beaches within the loch still look better than they did before and the wildlife will benefit from a cleaner environment! Will post the report of the litter survey which will go to the Marine Conservation Society soon.

Excellent effort Mary by all involved. Any plans to do another one?

Just a pity the storm a couple of weeks ago has left the shore line littered again.

Oh dear - that looks bad again! I usually find on our own beaches that if we manage to clean them 2 or 3 times soon after the autumn storms start, they remain quite good for the rest of the winter.(presumably because we have got most of the litter out of that part of the sea)
I wonder if I dare ask everyone to do it again so soon?

Looks like fun was had by all! Maybe it is time to set up another fun day - weather permitting!!!

mary wrote:Oh dear - that looks bad again! I usually find on our own beaches that if we manage to clean them 2 or 3 times soon after the autumn storms start, they remain quite good for the rest of the winter.(presumably because we have got most of the litter out of that part of the sea)
I wonder if I dare ask everyone to do it again so soon?

Think the Council cleared Dalintober beach following this picture as it is pretty clean again. Shoreline in general is pretty bad however and sad after all the hard work.

You never know unless you ask!