Scenic Galveston’s 25th Adopt-A-Beach-Estuary Event

Title: Scenic Galveston’s 25th Adopt-A-Beach-Estuary Event
Location: Take Exit 6 off I-45 just south of Bayou Vista to the service road, then 1st right to park in SG’s Reitan Point event site with its landmark Pavillion in the John M. O’Quinn I-45 Scenic Estuarial Corridor’s West Marsh.
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Description: 26 years of GLO’s ADOPT-A- BEACH-ESTUARY
What? SCENIC GALVESTON’s 25th AAB-E cleaning event! Saturday, September
22, let’s do it again! Thanks to you who have stepped “through and into the Tide” for many
years cleaning tons of debris & invasive species from SG’s preserves. Meet at Reitan Point!
Registration required between 8 and 9 – then into the field from 9 to 12. Teams return by
12:30 to the O-Quinn Pavillion for custom lunches, RSVP required, with update on SG’s
habitat conservation work, site reports, and the day’s bird observation count. Team effort
produces an invigorating day in scenic marshes and prairies, and on two bay shorelines!
Where? Take Exit 6 off I-45 just south of Bayou Vista to the service road, then 1st right to park in SG’s
Reitan Point event site with its landmark Pavillion in the John M. O’Quinn I-45 Scenic Estuarial Corridor’s
West Marsh. Shuttles will take teams to cleaning sites in this Corridor Preserve or on the Virginia Point
Peninsula Preserve. Briefing & aerial maps will give volunteers their choice of various sites—“hard-to-easy”
wetlands, to bay shores or prairies. No parking on the Right of Way or personal vehicles to sites.
Dress? Jeans for protection, caps/hats, sunglasses, lace-up tennis or mud boots, as some will cross
channels to work in wetlands – no flip flops allowed. Cameras/binoculars urged for scenery and birds.
After breakdown, all are invited to kayak, canoe, “bird”, fish, photograph, and view magnificent marshes.
Supplies? SG provides restrooms and washup facilities, water bottles, litter bags, gloves, repellent,
suntan lotion, mid-morning fruit, cold drinks with lunch, souvenirs, and tons of fun. Join SG! All enjoy the
conservation work and splendid outdoors in “parklands” you can call your own! SG-20 Years old, 2012!
RSVP attendance and numbers- 979-234-2096 or 409-789-4996, evangelinewhorton@yahoo.com
Start Time: 09:00
Date: 2012-09-22
End Time: 12:30