Oct10
Sanders Beach and the I Street jetty
7:30 – 9:30 AM · Foot of S I St, Pensacola Bay
Calm bay water and plenty of shade. Good first cleanup for families.
Clean Tide Coalition · Pensacola
Meet us at the waterline, Saturday 7:30.
Every Saturday we clean a different beach, bayou or creek mouth, finishing by 9:30 before the sand gets hot. Gloves, grabbers and buckets come off our truck. You bring water and shoes you can get wet.
- 1,912 cigarette filters at Casino Beach
- A shopping cart from Bayou Texar
- Six miles of fishing line
- A crab trap with a live blue crab inside (released)
- 430 bottle caps
- Mylar balloons, 61 of them
- A toilet seat at Sanders Beach
- Styrofoam bait cups
- A kayak paddle, returned to its owner
- Fireworks casings after the Fourth
The next five Saturdays
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Oct17
Bayou Texar by kayak and on foot
7:30 – 10:00 AM · Bayview Park boat ramp
Twelve loaner kayaks for the mangrove edge. Walkers work the seawall.
Oct24
Park East dunes, Pensacola Beach
7:30 – 9:30 AM · Park East lot, Via De Luna Dr
Gulf side. Stay off the dunes themselves; we work the wrack line and the lot.
Oct31
Bayou Chico, Barrancas bridge
7:30 – 9:30 AM · Barrancas Ave at the bridge
Heavy debris year. Long sleeves and sturdy boots, please.
Nov7
Big Lagoon after the fall king tides
8:00 – 10:00 AM · Big Lagoon State Park, East Beach
Park entry is waived for volunteers who check in at the truck.
Nothing in that category this month.
Ten seasons of Saturdays
What comes out of the water
Every bag is weighed on a hanging fish scale before it goes in the dumpster. These are the totals since the first cleanup in March 2016.
March 2016 to September 2026
1061
tons hauled off the shore
- 1212,480 pounds, weighed bag by bag at every site.
- 2Counted from sign-in sheets. Someone who came 40 times counts 40 times.
- 3Removed only during the state trap-retrieval windows.
The full log, site by site, is on The tally page.
See the tally
The Saturday kit
Everything but the sunscreen is on the truck
The green truck pulls in at 7:15 with a hundred five-gallon buckets, grabbers in two sizes, gloves from kids' small to men's XL, and a cooler of ice water that Darnell refills twice.
You keep the bucket while you work and hand it back at weigh-in. The grabbers go home to the Net Shed to be hosed off and counted on Thursday.
- Closed-toe shoes that can get wet. No flip-flops.
- A hat, a refillable bottle and a long-sleeve shirt
- Kids under 16 with an adult; we have kid-size grabbers
- Lightning within ten miles cancels. We text by 6 AM.
How a Saturday goes
Two hours, start to finish
Leave whenever you need to. Just drop your bucket at the scale on the way out.
Step 1: Sign up, or just turn up
Signing up tells us how many gloves to pack. Walk-ups are always welcome at the truck.
Step 2: 7:30 check-in and safety talk
Sign the waiver, grab a kit and hear five minutes on sharps, heat and wildlife from the site captain.
Step 3: Ninety minutes on the shore
Work in pairs along the wrack line, the seawall or the creek edge. Flag anything heavy or sharp for the captain.
Step 4: Weigh-in at 9:15
Every bucket goes on the scale and the number goes on the board. Service-hour forms get signed here.
What we found last time
Roll 41
Sanders Beach, one September morning
Shot by volunteer Kayla Tran on the film camera she keeps in her bucket. Thirty-eight people, 412 pounds.
Key
- 14Bottle patrol, I Street jetty
- 156:52 AM, before the truck pulled in
- 16Low tide, 8:05 AM
- 17Microplastics are the slow part
- 18Carrying the heavy bag back to the truck
- 19Two brothers, one bag, forty minutes
- 20First light from the I Street jetty, 6:38 AM
Want a print of your frame? Ask at the Net Shed on a Thursday.
Who keeps the truck running
Bayou Texar PaddlersGulf Breeze Dive ClubEscambia Hauling Co.Barracks Street Bait & TackleFerry Pass Middle Science ClubSeville Quarter Coffee Cart
We borrow a lot
The dumpsters, the boat ramp mornings and half the gloves come from neighbors who say yes every time we ask.
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