I have just retured from a school holiday trip to Omapere in the Hokianga with Leanne and the kids. We had a great time and if you haven’t been to this part of New Zealand, you should. it is very beautiful… that is of course until you start to look at the coastline carefully as we all do now. It is as bad as most of our fantastic beaches with all sorts of plastics and debris along the beach. This really just served to show how important it is to get the Plastic Soup education program up and running. People simply have to begin to realise what they are doing to not only the beach itself but the eco system and all those that live in and around it..that includes us! dR