SAS update from Pembrokeshire!

Hello folks and fellow bloggers. Sorry about my absence as your official SAS rep and updater. I’ve been a bit pants at getting online and spreading the good word of all the work we’re doing at SAS lately. The adventure office at TYF this summer has gone totally bonkers and like most of you, I’ve had friends, family and long lost cousins to visit from all over, the veggies are coming along great aside from the slug eaten cabbages :( and since the surf’s been flat lately I’ve been out cycling around- Alas I am now online and wanted to update you on some news.

Did you all see SAS on national media last week with the Brown Flag campaign? Isn’t it shocking how our beach operators have claimed that they do tell us if there’s been a spill of raw sewage on our beaches yet I’ve never once seen a sign, never once heard on local radio and not once been made aware that there has been a risk of catching any number of skanky, nasty diseases like hepatitis A, Ecoli, thyphoid or meningitis. And more to the point – they don’t have the systems in place to know when there’s been a spill or not.

The SAS Spring Clean with Barefoot Wines was a great success a couple of weeks back and on the beach we cleaned up here (Newgale – which looks kinda clean) we collected over 300kg of litter, which is a staggering amount considering we were only there for around an hour and a half. Next up is the Motivocean tour.

Surfers Against Sewage have teamed up with Quiksilver Foundation & myGames (powered by v), and will be hitting the road with the biggest beach clean tour in our history. Since 1994, the volume of marine litter on UK beaches has increased by 146%* and SAS is helping combat this tide line of trash through its beach cleans and ongoing campaigns.  ‘Motivocean’ is SAS’s most ambitious beach clean tour to date and will be calling in at over 20 major UK beaches and waterside locations across the nation. to find out more you can drop a quick email to chris@sas.org.ukor check it out on their Facebook Page. Our beach clean will be at Newgale Beach NEXT WEDNESDAY (25th Aug) and we’re meeting at 1pm on the  beach, if you live  near by please come along- it would be great to meet you.

One last note before I get out for a wet and windy walk along the Pembrokeshire coast – the SAS Ball  tickets are still available to buy here www.sasball.co.uk. see you there!!

Tags: ball, beach, clean, guardian, Marine litter, Newgale, Pembrokeshire, SAS, summer