Please help this coming Sunday and Monday!
The Coastal Bend Surfrider Foundation will once again have the privilege of hosting the Disabled Surf Camp on June 28-29. This year we'll be meeting in front of the Sand Castle Condominiums in Port Aransas at 6:00 PM each evening. We'll need plenty of longboards, or soft tops if you have one, for our gathering on Sunday evening. On Monday evening soft top surfboards will be provided by Morgan Faulkner's Surf Camp.
We're going to need at least 30 volunteers to help with this very stoking adventure. We're expecting approx. 20 disabled kids to participate. Please help, you will be glad that you did.
Directions:
Take SPI out to Padre Island, turn left on Highway 361 going to Port Aransas & go 18 miles to the first stop light in Port Aransas, turn right and continue on G street until you reach the beach, turn right on the beach and drive south until you see the Sand Castle Condominiums.
Oceans 21 Act: call for Action!
Our oceans are in a serious crisis! The Oceans 21 Act would establish a number of policies to help better care for and manage our oceans. You can help pass Oceans 21 by writing to your representatives in Washington, DC. Click here for a sample letter. This is a sample only. We encourage everyone to use your own words and make the letter personal. For example, recount a story you have witnessed at the beach or on the water. Please write! Every letter makes a difference.
If you missed our March meeting, you missed an awesome presentation by our very own vice-chair Neil McQueen on his recent trip to Washington D.C. for the Blue Vision Summit and the efforts to build support for the Oceans 21 Act in Congress. But you are in luck: Neil has agreed for us to make his presentation available on this web site. Click here to download it. The presentation is compressed (zipped) and is in Microsoft Powerpoint.
Coastal Bend Chapter's Official Statement on Beach Access
"The Surfrider Coastal Bend Chapter is committed to free and unrestricted
access for all people to all Texas beaches in accordance with the Texas
Open Beaches Act. Surfrider maintains that vehicle access is the key to
beaches remaining accessible and not becoming effectively private beaches.
In certain cases the Surfrider Coastal Bend Chapter supports the creation
of pedestrian areas as long as vehicle access and parking are maintained
on the beach itself as it is the case in the IB Magee and Port Aransas
Beach Parks."
Don't Mess with Texas Beaches
