International Surfing Day

June 2oth marks the 7 annual International Surfing Day! This is the first time that Lobitos has been able to participate in this event and it was a great success! This event is used to promote the sport of surfing, however it also is used to promote being "ocean minded" and doing what you can to protect the ocean. SO we had a beach clean up! las Capullanas is a beach about 15mins by car south of Lobios. Its a gorgeous beach with sand dunes and caves, but its covered in garbage because of the next town over, Talara. We had 40-50 people show up for the event, including kids, parents, surfers, and of course the WAVES volunteers. We collected about 2o bags of garbage collected, I even found myself a little keepsake. I found a sea lion, or in spanish "lobo" vertebrae. I think it may end up being a donation to the WAVES house because I'm probably not allowed to bring back foreign animal bones into Canada. At the end of the event we had a draw for prizes that had been donated by surf companies from the states and Europe, overall a pretty good day.