Congratulations to Dolly :) on winning the First to Find draw and the CITO travel bug!
Litter pickers, gloves, rubbish bags & hi-vis jackets can be collected here (feel free to bring your own). Please wait for the short health & safety chat and instructions on dealing with unexpected hazards. Beaware that the terrain could either be deep sand or rocky depending on the weather and tides prior to the CITO.
We can't guarantee the weather but you can be sure of a cuppa, a bun and a bit of craic after the clean-up; feel free to bring your own picnic too and there is a cafe at the harbour and a good pub up the road. (Biscuit Cake may also make an appearance).
Bring along travel bugs & geocoins to be discovered or grabbed!
If you wish really hard the cache fairy may wave her magic wand and a new cache or two may appear too…especially as it is “International Talk Like a Pirate Day” on the 19th September! (Mrs DucInc’s favourite day of the year.)
‘Keep NI Beautiful’ (formerly ‘TIDY Northern Ireland’) have once again invited geocachers to be part of the Marine Litter Survey Programme. KNIB are monitoring the level of beach litter at fourteen beaches in Northern Ireland. To meet the programme criteria, each beach will need to be cleared of rubbish following the litter survey to ensure that items are not counted twice…that is where our CITO comes in!
The OSPAR Commission run a programme with fifteen countries within Europe to co-operate to protect the marine environment of the North East Atlantic. The data collected is vitally important as it will help provide an overview of the problem of marine litter not only in Northern Ireland but across the whole of North East Atlantic. The data will then be used to help to formulate solutions to address the problem of marine litter.
There will be further CITOs over the coming year so if you can’t make this one you may make it to another. We plan to visit several different beaches so that almost everyone has the opportunity to attend a CITO reasonably close to their home ground – but feel free to come along to any or all!
There will be other activities in the area that day organized by the Causeway Coast and Glens Trust.
Most importantly off all - HAVE FUN!