Eliana's Island Earth Day CITO III Cache In Trash Out® Event

Earth Day is a worldwide annual event in April intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. This is a great opportunity to bring geocachers together for the purpose of helping Mother Earth!

Event Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009

Event Time: Meet at 8 a.m. in the parking lot on the beach area just after the Rickenbacker Causeway at N 25.44.772 W 80.10.713

To celebrate this day I have created this CITO event on a small spoil island off Virginia Key. Two years ago, while kayaking in the area to create a paddling multi-cache (Our First Date: Virginia Key Paddle), we encountered this beautiful island full of beer bottles, canned sodas, and other ugly trash. It made me very sad to see how destructive and disrespectful some people can be, yet I realized that there are others that enjoy and respect nature and the outdoors as much as I do.

This will be the third year in a row that we have held a successful CITO event on this little island. The first year (GC11QED) was a huge success with many participants and a trash-free island after a few hours of hard work. Last year, the SeaAggies hosted year 2 (GC1ATAB) while ExoticDVM and I were out of town, and it looks like the island was refreshed once again! Unfortunately, every year, it accumulates a fair bit of trash.

The island is 0.1 mile from shore. In order to get there, you need to travel by kayak, canoe or small boat, so you must arrange to bring your own boat or pair up with someone that can share one with you. This CITO should only take a few hours, and we will meet at 8 a.m in the parking lot on the beach area just after the Rickenbacker causeway at N 25.44.772 W 80.10.713. We can launch non-motorized boats from here. Once we have finished, we can have some lunch on the island (please bring your own) and for those who are interested, do some geocaching in the Virginia Key and Key Biscayne area.

Please bring plenty of water, sunscreen, hat, snacks and of course your boat of choice. We will bring the trash bags! RSVP below so we know who is coming.

"The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to conserve its natural resources. It is a responsibility which every human being shares. Through voluntary action, each of us can join in building a productive land in harmony with nature." -President Gerald Ford

Special thanks to the City of Miami Marine Stadium for all their help.