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2026 Clean Up Flotilla

Begins after Easter

Cruising & Cleaning in Company

In 2026, Ocean Crusaders will launch our most ambitious cleanup initiative yet – the Flotilla 2026. Beginning in Gladstone at Easter, a fleet of volunteer and support vessels will journey the entire length of the Great Barrier Reef, removing marine debris from remote islands, inshore reefs, and key waterways along the way.

Building on years of experience through our Island Guardians and targeted cleanup campaigns, the Flotilla will unite cruisers, community groups, and partners in a coordinated effort to restore and protect one of the world’s greatest natural wonders.

Join us for a day, join us for the week

Join us with your own boat at any time & help us clean

Leave the debris to us

Schedule

  • Begins in Gladstone post Easter
  • Full schedule TBA

Daily plan

  • Clean Beaches with a focus on Southern facing shores morning and early aftenoon
  • Sundowners on beach in late afternoon

Details

An informal flotilla of likeminded people who care for their cruising grounds. No set schedule, no set timing.

We will have our landing barge running in support so if we can’t anchor on southern shores, we will run you around in barge.

We supply the bags and our barge will take the debris away.

Check out our 2025 Pelli Bags Clean Up on Thomas & Shaw Islands.

A treasure hunt

What will we find

In 2025 we removed over 2.8 tonnes of debris

Having visited the islands on the way home from Airlie last year we were overwhelmed with the amount of debris

Many hands makes light work.

Clean for as long, or as little as you like

Sundowners and stories to be had.

Join us in 2026

Plans are already being made for a much bigger event in 2026. Departing Gladstone after Easter, we will cruise in company all the way up to the tip of Australia, cleaning as we go.

Stay up to date by following our socials or this page for more details as they come to hand. The schedule will be put out by Christmas, all going well.

2020 Whitsundays Clean Up Flotilla

Interested in joining us?

Drop us an email if you are cruising this year and keen to join us.