Tom Jones, Paddling the entire California coast STANDING UP!

Submitted by oceanrev on September 15, 2007 - 9:58pm

Today is International Coastal Cleanup Day. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world got outside and cleaned up their coast, removing thousands and thousands of pounds of stuff that now WON'T be in the ocean. Some walked, some swam, some dove, some paddled.
At our "thank you" event for participants in Santa Cruz, put on by Save Our Shores, we heard that Santa Cruz County cleaned up A LOT more garbage this year than last and had record attendance in the event. My guess is that happened all over the world, thanks in part to 11th Hour Action and the 11th Hour film.
At the SC event I met a man named Tom Jones who is paddling his paddleboard along the entire coast of California to bring awareness to this cause: plastic in the ocean.
I'll let you read about Tom for yourself. But the guy has passion, serious SERIOUS cojones to paddle through our sharky waters all day every day, and major energy for this global cause. Support him if you can, and better...be inspired by him to do your own thing.
http://www.californiapaddle.com
Hope that you all got out and cleaned your coast today!
J.
http://www.wallacejnichols.org

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