Green Island is located off Manly in Brisbane’s Moreton Bay. Unfortunately it has a reputation of having had more plastic visit it than people. So Ocean Crusaders set about changing that statistic by inviting the public to the island on…
Our second Paddle Against Plastic on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast was set up to finish cleaning Stumers Creek after a team of 18 paddlers had managed to pull 107kg of debris out back in June. We had a focus of cleaning…
Biodegradability When natural organic materials go into the ground, they tend to decompose progressively before they disappear. This is very important for the environment, which has to get rid of waste to make room for new life. Photosynthetic organisms like…
One of the world’s most popular food sources is seafood. Our oceans provide a staggering amount of food for us and fishing is one of the world’s biggest hobbies. Millions of people every day go out and fish for fun…
There are days in my life when I feel so satisfied with what I do. Sometimes the road of a campaign like ours can be trying as company after company reject your sponsorship applications, or you see people continuing to…
A while ago I had the privilege of being invited to talk to all the office staff in the Veolia Offices in Brisbane. The day was successful and their environment team talked about working with us in the future. Well…
Coming to the end of a big journey like this is bitter sweet. The feat of actually finishing is one thing, however the fact that it is over is another thing all together. When you add to the fact that…
One of the things I never did in Fiji when I was here last was go diving. We were running windsurfing and kitesurfing tours so a few snorkels were about as close as we got to the action. There were…
Waking up in Fiji means waking up in Fiji time. There is no hurry to do anything and as we had a whole weekend to fill in before we could get to the islands, that’s exactly what we did. We…
In 1998 and 99, I ran windsurfing tours to Plantation Island in Fiji from Sailboard Headquarters in Melbourne. I took a photo on one of those trips of my friend Brendon windsurfing back towards the beach. In the distance behind…