by herm, Wednesday 22 September 2010 13:14
For the past 9 years the beaches of Herm Island have been cleared of rubbish over the third weekend in September as part of the national Beachwatch campaign organised by the Marine Conservation Society. This year regular holiday makers to Herm, Jean and Phil Reeves, Jonathan and Shirley Hancock and Russell Clay once again volunteered to help clear rubbish. They were joined by the children of Herm school who cleared Belvoir during their school day. Four year 8 geography students from Elizabeth College gave up their Saturday morning to come over to Herm to clear Shell and North Beaches. The rubbish that is collected has to be logged and the information is then sent to the MCS for analysis.
This year a total of 26.74kg of rubbish was cleared from Herm beaches! This included a wheel found on North Beach that weighed 13.6kg. The most exciting find this year was a 1952 halfpenny coin found on Belvoir by India.