'Donate a day for the bay'
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HOW TO HELP
The bay and estuary shoreline cleanup is from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday
Volunteers meet at Port O'Connor's local boat ramps: Froggie's, Clark's and The Fishing Center.
Organizers encourage you to bring your ...
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HOW TO HELP
The bay and estuary shoreline cleanup is from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday
Volunteers meet at Port O'Connor's local boat ramps: Froggie's, Clark's and The Fishing Center.
Organizers encourage you to bring your boat.
Heavy-duty plastic bags as well as barbecue and refreshments are provided.
For more, contact Curtiss Cash at 361-564-7032.
With a name like Cash, you'd think the captain's efforts this weekend would be anything but free of charge.
Curtiss Cash, though, will donate his time to clean the Texas shorelines - and he asks you to help him.
Cash is founder of Clean Shores, a grassroots group backed by environmentally conscious Texas anglers. Their goal: rid shorelines of garbage via two yearly cleanups.
Cash expects about a dozen boaters on Saturday to chip in.
"This is the first year we've done this," the 40-year-old said. "We can't pay anyone. We just ask people to donate some time to clean the bay and make it a better place. Donate a day for the bay."
Cash is the Victoria owner of Lowtide Guide Service, a fishing guide company that tours the water off Port O'Connor and Seadrift. From his vantage point, the captain has watched levels of trash grow in the estuaries and bays.
"The average public doesn't see it driving to the beach," he said. "But it's there, especially after Hurricane Ike."
The hurricane that slammed Galveston last year also sent debris down the coast. Cash found everything from plastic bags, to furniture and camp trailers, he said.
Volunteers this weekend will mainly gather trash from areas accessible only by boat. Saturday, and the next cleanup, March 27, coincide with the equinox tides and deeper water levels. Boaters can reach areas they otherwise couldn't.
"Once trash hits certain shorelines, it'll get deposited in some part of the bay system and stay there forever," Cash said. "We could use help cleaning it up."
Comments
A very good man doing very good work. My experience is that a day spent on the water with Capt. Curtess has always been a day well spent.
September 23, 2009 at 9:13 a.m.