Sea Scouts Ship Dragon - Ship 584

The Ship Dragon in support of the annual Earth Day cleanup scheduled for 10 AM Sunday, May 4.

We rowed over as a group to Pine Island  (about a half mile out) and help spruce up the island.  Our Ship' crew  supported the local John Gardner Chapter of the Traditional Small Craft Association.

They are interested in working with our crew members.

They have a Community Boathouse at Avery Point. We visited their boathouse and learned about boatbuilding techniques, went for a row, and had a cookout.

You can see pictures on their website of a past cleanup (plus our other activities).

 http://www.tsca.net/johngardner/pine_island2001.htm

 We were also a part of ShopRite’s Earth Day mission, which is to promote civic engagement, broaden the meaning of “environment,” and mobilize communities.  ShopRite’s yearly Earth Day program has reached out to towns as far north as Central Village, as far west as Lyme and as far east as the Pawcatuck; serving over 450 organizations and over 9,000 participants.

We supported The Scouting Outdoor Code

As an American, I will do my best to -

Be clean in my outdoor manners
Be careful with fire
Be considerate in the outdoors, and
Be conservation minded.
http://usscouts.org/usscouts/advance/boyscout/bsoathlaw.asp
 
I know our combined efforts will make Southeastern Connecticut's environment just a little nicer this spring