Program Work Begins
Up early Wednesday to find a coffee shop and get email in and out… the fog is thick, and the streets of Morro Bay are quiet… I’m thinking about how the people of this town must describe where Morrow Bay is when they are traveling… to the north, the cliffs of Big Sur, and to the south, Point Conception and then Santa Barbara. Morro Bay, and a few other small towns, share a unique quiet coastal zone of California that has a slight feeling of the New England fishing villages, mixed with a surfing and boating lifestyle… ‘unique’ and ‘community’ are the words I have in mind.
I find The Rock Espresso Bar – OPEN – nice – it’s named for this rock, an igneous vein at the harbor entrance, whose surroundings eroded away long ago…
I get my work done, later joined by some of the crew to finalize the plan for the day… a morning surf, clean the boat, staff meeting, and then our Think Beyond Plastics Program starts at 3:00. He added that we will stay in the harbor an extra day to wait for the winds to clock around from S to NW, so we’ll have a fine 15- 20 Kt wind off our starboard shoulder one the way south around Point Conception.
Today our first program work starts – we’ll take a large group out on the boat, the Derek M. Baylis (‘the Baylis’) for “science under sail” – marine ecology, plankton tows, and ‘trash talk’. Then we will screen “Strange Days on Planet Earth”, a production of SeaStudios, whose foundation is the primary creator and supporter of this expedition.
Now writing later… the day went well. Great interest in the program work we are doing, and an enthusiastic turnout at our evening program. For the sake of time, I’ll let the pics talk for now, and provide a program brief after we get to Santa Barbara.
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