Tomorrow! Meet at the bridge at 7AM, the more help the better! Let's keep La Isla...BONITA!
Hosted by ACES / American Crocodile Education Sanctuary

Join us in clean sweeping our beautiful San Pedro Lagoon and mangrove waterways. Don't be late! We are meeting under the bridge. Let's clean up our mangrove river! We will have some boats available for people hop on, but if you want to bring your own means of transportation (anyone got kayaks?), then that's more room for garbage! There are also some spots accessible by land if you don't want to go out on the water! Bring dive boots/water shoes and some hand cleaner disinfectant, maybe a pair of scissors for snipping fishing line from mangrove.

Right now we have boats being provided by:
-MJ Leslie
-ACES / American Crocodile Education Sanctuary (10 person max)
-Lisa and Ronnie (4 person max)
-El Pescador, 3-4 boats

Comment if you can bring your boat and we will add you to this list! The more, the merrier, the cleaner!

This island is one ecosystem. The reef and the lagoon are not separate entities, they are connected. A large percentage of what we see in the ocean lives the early stages of their life in the mangroves, which provide a nursery for young and vulnerable marine life. We are losing this nursery at an alarming rate. Unregulated habitat destruction; frightening levels of heavy metals and chemicals; plastics, drywall, and just about everything else being dumped into the water and used as landfill; sewage being pumped directly into the waterways. This is all contaminating the precious nursery and slowly crippling the ecosystem. These unsustainable practices need to stop before the damage done becomes irreversible. If the lagoon dies, the reef dies, and if the reef dies, tourism dies. It's that simple.

Let's save our beautiful island ecosystem, one piece of trash at a time! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! If you can't make it to the clean up, pick up some trash where you are! Every item picked up is one less piece of garbage that can pollute the environment. Let's show our love for where we live, San Pedro!

UPDATE: We will have the city garbage truck parked at the lagoon side terminal dock for the Water Taxi, which is where we will be dropping off our mountains of trash that are removed from the waters and mangrove. Trash is going to be put directly into boats and won't be bagged up until after it has been dropped off at the dock. We recommend bringing tarps, or even better, flattened card board boxes to protect the body of the boat as trash is being loaded inside.

Thank you guys in advance for spending your Saturday morning cleaning up the beautiful mangrove channels of the lagoon!