I'll be there. Hope you can too.

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Gilgo Beach Clean Up

Saturday, September 21st 9:00 AM

 

LIBAG.ORG

https://www.littoralsociety.org

http://www.townofbabylon.com

http://www.nysbeachcleanup.org

For this years NYS Beach Clean Up

Saturday, September 21st  

(rain-date, Sunday the 22nd. ) 

Start time is 9:00.

Gilgo Beach Cleanup!

We will meet in the parking lot by the tunnel entrance. 

We will have a table set up, and can really use your help.

Free parking. We will supply gloves, Trash Bags, Pencils and recording sheets. You provide the muscle. Bring a friend, or two or ten!

As we have for close to two a decades, 

LIBAG, The Long Island Beach Access Group, LIBAG.ORG

The Long Island Windsurfers Group, 

The American Littoral Society, https://www.littoralsociety.org

And the Town of Babylon, http://www.townofbabylon.com 

will team up for the 

Gilgo Beach, Saturday, September 21st 9:00 AM 

Every year tens of thousands of volunteers remove and collect data on tons of debris from hundreds of miles of shorelines across New York State as part of our annual NY State Beach Cleanup. 

Why New York State Beach Cleanup is different than other cleanups:

While the activities on the day of the cleanup are important and receive much positive publicity, the compilation, analysis and dissemination of the data collected have an even greater impact. This cleanup is unique in that volunteers fill out data cards about what they remove. This data is summarized for individual sites and all data cards are sent to The Ocean Conservancy for analysis. The resultant studies produce strategies to combat marine pollution and help inform policy makers, the media and the public about solutions to the problem.

So please join us Gilgo Beach, Saturday, September 21st 9:00 AM 

 at Gilgo Beach for our largest Beach Cleanup of the season.

We at LIBAG want to thank you in advance for all your help.

We hope to see you there.

LIBAG.ORG 

I’m not sure how to say this nicely.

I’m not sure how to say this nicely. 

I appreciate your concern.  But you worry about you, and I’ll worry about me.

If you surf and/or windsurf on Long Island you understand. You have been following storms and weather patterns long before App’s and websites like Surfline, Magic Seaweed, iwindsurf, or live stream beach cam’s ever existed.

If you have been a waterman as long as I have, you remember reading the raw feed from buoy’s, listening to your NOAA weather radio, and interpreting pressure changes on your barometer. You know what an isobar is. You understand the difference between a wind or wave created by a synoptic front or a simple thermal. You have been tracking storms, fronts, wave hight, and swell periods long before the weather channel existed.  

So while I understand your concern. Your need to cater to the lowest common denominator… Your need to inundate the news with warnings about how I am putting first responders lives at risk.

I fully understand the difference between a storm like Sandy that made landfall; and one like Dorian, or Bob or any of the other phenomenon that most of you have no fucking clue about.

Please enjoy some of the best of the current weather we are enjoying.

MOCEAN. A film by Chris Bryan from Chris Bryan on Vimeo.



POSTSCRIPT: Sadly the OBX in this case Buxton did not fair so well.