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Ocean Rafting’s continued involvement in the Whitsunday Water Quality Sampling Project
This week an additional three staff members took part in a fresh round of training in the Whitsunday water quality monitoring citizen science project. Ocean Rafting has been involved in this Blueprint for Tourism operators since February 2020 and were able to repurpose vessels under Covid-19 guidelines to continue to collect this valuable data during […]
Ocean Rafting and Parley Team up to remove marine debris from the Whitsunday Islands
Ocean Rafting is proud to have facilitated a forth local beach clean with Parley for our Oceans amongst the Whitsunday Islands. The weather cleared, and the wind eased allowing us to explore some of the more remote beaches on the south-east side of Whitsunday Island. Some of the beaches are so untouched by humans they […]
Whitsunday Coral Restoration Project
March 2017 bought an unwelcome visitor to the Whitsundays in the form of Cyclone Debbie. Cyclone Debbie unfortunately caused significant damage to the region both above and below the water. Whilst protected bays remained relatively unscathed, some of the North facing bays experienced damage to the fringing coral reefs. This project, the first of its […]
Cleanup volunteers intercept 800kg of plastic from 3.5km of coast in the Whitsundays
Ocean conservation group Parley For The Oceans and Whitsunday Tour Operator, Ocean Rafting, collected over 800kg of washed-up marine debris from what seemed to be clean beaches on the central and southern island of the Whitsundays. Fuel drums, fishing rope, bleach bottles, toothbrushes and bottle caps were the most common items found during a marine […]
Ocean Rafting’s beautiful beach clean up
A contingent of 11 Ocean Rafting staff came together on their day off last Friday, taking one of the vessels from the fleet, “Wild Thing” on an exploratory clean up trip to Thomas Island. Cleaning two south-easterly facing beaches over a period of four hours, the team collected 25 extra large bags of rubbish, as […]
