Clean-Up Australia Day Success
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Written by Jonathan Stone
It was a clear and sunny day - the first day of autumn.
Low tide was at 7.20am, so the ‘event’ - three hours of cleaning up - was scheduled for 7.00 -10.00am.
I am rarely at the Club so early - it was really pleasant. The morning was warm, the day at its best. The bay was dead calm; no commuters on the ferry wharf as it was a Sunday; much too early for the crowd for the harbour’s music ‘islands’. Or for Laser sailors to be rigging. A couple of 18s turned up early, perhaps for early parking spots. Paul Adam appeared soon after 7, with the day’s meat pies (for the 18s).
I opened the Clubhouse, set up a table at the entrance, and found the gear stored since last year. Candice and Mike appeared first and worked long and hard; they were followed Diana and Christiana and Christine and by Craig and a daughter, Richard, Andrew, and more.
Right at the end, Stephen - from the BIG BOAT float fleet came by with some paint cleaner and scrubbed some graffiti from the front entrance area. A valuable improvement.
All sorts of rubbish were collected, from a car tyre to a broken mirror stand. No sharps; no syringes; still some cigarette butts. Maybe 10 bags of rubbish, most unrecyclable.
My job was to get it all out to the end of Bay St, wash the gloves, repack the unused bags and the gloves and stow them in the corner of the workshop. And it was done for another year. The job is more than symbolic; levels of rubbish were not high - though people swept all the usual areas - the beaches and grass areas and the kid’s play area. Levels were low because we do the job each year.
My thanks to all those who came and made it happen!
(Editor’s Note: A big thanks to Jonathan for organizing another successful Clean Up Australia Day at DBSC.)