Compton Beach : Compton Farm (Fields) Car Park
[Compton Farm Beach-9118]
Next Saturday 5th May 2012 first thing in the
Compton-Farm-Beach-morning at 9am,we are meeting at Compton Farm Beach Car Park, Compton Bay to clean up the beach.
You are not obliged to spend hours cleaning or if you cant make 9am no problem – just come down when you can.
If every one who surfs/walks/swims at Compton, pops down, and spends half hour to fill a couple of bags we would clear pretty much all the rubbish down there in one go.
Bring BIN BAGS! BLACK & the CLEAR ONES you get given by the council – WE ARE RECYCLING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
Please understand this is a voluntary event and the Surf Club takes no responsibility for your actions.
May 03, 2012 | Categories: The Noughties | Tags: archive, beach, Beach Clean, bin, blog, Clean, compton, Compton Bay, Compton Farm, Fields, history, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Surf Club, Matt Harwood, people, Rubbish, stoked, surf, Surf Trip, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, swell, The Noughties, tidy, waves, wetsuit, wightsurfhistory | Leave A Comment »
This is my favourite beach on the Isle of Wight but not how I wish to see it. 20-30 people with a black bin bag could have it all cleared in an hour or two. Surfers , walkers and other beach users walk past like it isn’t there. I know the National trust employ a beach warden for the summer months and eventually they will have it all cleared but with the warm spring 1000’s of people have been down on the beach since those lovely weeks in February. This is the home to the Glanville Fritillary Butterfly amongst many others but it looks like a rubbish tip right now. Most of the waste is from storm/tide/ships but there is also plenty of rubbish every year left on the grass & cliffs by people having bbqs/camp fires etc
Anyone interested helping me get this cleared up please let me know. Provisionally we are looking at Saturday May 5th 2012.
Apr 25, 2012 | Categories: The Noughties | Tags: archive, beach, Beach Clean, blackley, blog, Clean, compton, Compton Bay, Compton Farm, compton fields, Fields, history, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Surf Club, longboard, Matt Harwood, paul blackley, people, photo, photographs, portrait, Rubbish, stoked, surf, surfboard, Surfer, surfing, swell, The Noughties, tip, waves, wetsuit, wightsurfhistory | 1 Comment »
SAS needs your hands on the beach at Grange Chine, Sun 25th March, Arrive 15:00
The annual SAS Big Spring Beach Clean has been removing marine litter from UK beaches for many years with the help of community volunteers. SAS are today calling on the coastal communities across the UK to join them for the SAS Big Spring Beach Clean at beaches nationwide on 24th & 25th March to help make this year’s event the biggest ever.
Spring time sadly reveals the true severity of the marine litter issue. After a long winter of storms, before local council beach cleaning operations begin for the summer season, the accumulation of litter can often seem at its worst. The amount of marine litter found on UK beaches has almost doubled in the last fifteen years, with a shocking 1,969 litter items found on every kilometre of coastline*. Typical examples of marine litter include rubbish from beach users, sewage-related debris, waste from commercial shipping, nets and fish boxes from fishing vessels and medical waste.
SAS Big Spring Beach Clean events will be led by SAS Regional Reps & SAS Lead Volunteers, with confirmed locations including:
Be there people! Open to everyone. Bring some gloves and plastic bin bags, we will have some to borrow but if you bring your own it will be really useful.
Mar 20, 2012 | Categories: The Noughties | Tags: archive, beach, Beach Clean, blog, Clean, Grange Chine, history, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Surf Club, people, photo, portrait, S.A.S., SAS, stoked, surf, surfboard, Surfer, Surfers Against Sewage, surfing, swell, The Noughties, waves, wetsuit, wightsurfhistory | Leave A Comment »
Congratulations to the Surfers Against Sewage for another successful beach clean at Grange Chine. Saturday the 26th March saw glorious weather and a really good turn out by at least 48 volunteers to help with the beach clean. There was a really lovely vibe and 45 bags of litter and a huge chest freezer that wasa dragged about half a mile along the beach by a couple of lads. As the morning went on a small swell started to build and a few waves were to be had at Compton and enjoyed all weekend. Well done to Joe Caudwell and all who came along to help.
Mar 28, 2011 | Categories: The Noughties | Tags: archive, beach, blackley, blog, Chris Mannion, Clean, Clean up, compton, Compton Bay, Dave Downer, environment, Grange Chine, history, IOW, IOW Surf Club, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight Surf Club, Joe Caudwell, Litter, longboard, Marine, Marine Litter, Matt Harwood, paul blackley, people, photo, photographs, Rubbish, S.A.S., SAS, stoked, surf, surfboard, Surfer, Surfers Against Sewage, surfing, swell, The Noughties, waves, wightsurfhistory | Leave A Comment »
Soon after this Al was surfing Porthleven with Dean Winter when he went too deep and got smashed into the reef. Al ended up quite battered and bruised and with broken ribs. A Pregnant Julie and Al had already decided to move back to the Island and at that point Al was desperate to get as much surfing in before they left. So even with broken ribs and feeling quite sore Al continued to surf, paddling into waves with one arm until they left for the Island.
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