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Go to your favorite stretch of beach at 12 noon central time (1PM Eastern) and help protect it by drawing a line in the sand!

Please post here which beach you are headed to.

Post from the beach on your smart phone - bookmark www.SoWal.com/bb

Let us know afterward what you saw.

Email photos to us - or post on this thread, or the gallery.
Your photos may be published in news sites and publications anywhere in the world, including SoWal.com - include your name if you would like credit.


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Thanks Everyone!!! :D Time to draw the line!



Thanks to Dave Rauschkolb for his vision, leadership, and energy!

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Kurt avatar
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#77
Hands Across The Sand in Destin, Florida behind the Whale's Tale.
- video by Chris Clauson

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r54kRnZ1b2k"]YouTube- Hands Across The Sand in Destin, Florida[/ame]
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#78
I agree. I was so happy to have my son and grandchildren join me for the event...the grandkids' first protest. It felt like the 60s again for me--and I loved it!

We have such a fantastic community--the feeling of pride makes me cry and laugh at the same time.

When it comes to our beaches--we are all Floridians!
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#79
Texas oil riggers offer black beaches with radioactive material to swim in:
"Oil drilling platforms are visible off in the distance and there is oil and gas exploration at the park. The visitor's center warns about the tar that washes up onto the beach from all of the oil production in the area and about the dangers of medical and chemical debris that ends up on shore as a result of the prevailing currents. While there's a mile or two of natural beach, the vast majority of the shoreline is open to four wheel drive vehicles. In fact, the beaches are designated Texas public highways."www.hubis.com/blog(scroll all the way down-next to last pic)
(Last paragraph before conclusion on below link minimizes danger of radioactive material-??????)
The bull is high and it stinks, the regulations sketchy and vague, and someone got paid to compromise this land. This is the visible result, I don't have statistics on the radioactive material that people swam in, but I don't think you have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
Padre Island National Seashore - The White Paper (U.S. National Park Service)
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Thanks for reminding me why I don't go to the beach in my home state!
Kurt avatar
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#80
'Hands Across the Sand' opposes drilling in Florida - CNN iReport
About 250 opponents of offshore oil drilling gathered on Clearwater Beach to mount the biggest protest in Florida history by joining hands along the coastline Saturday. The statewide "Hands Across the Sand" demonstration opposes proposals to permit oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. Even the seagulls got into the act joining together aswell.
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#81
Florida oil drilling: Florida residents rally against offshore oil drilling - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com


They looked like dark spots of tar freshly washed upon the shore.

The black sweaters and jackets they wore on the chilly Saturday afternoon symbolized what could happen to South Florida beaches in the event of an oil spill caused by offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

"The Gulf Stream would bring it here in 24 hours," said Ed Stroble, a self-proclaimed "green Republican" who attended the event. "There are alternatives to this."
More than 60 people showed up at Fort Lauderdale's beach to hold hands in opposition to drilling for oil off the Florida coastline. Called Hands Across the Sand, the protest is aimed at raising awareness about legislation brewing in Washington and Tallahassee that could open the Florida waters to drilling. Oil companies could drill as close as three to 10 miles from the beach.
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#82
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkitQCRMIlg&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube- Hands Across The Sand: A Gathering for the Protection of Florida's Beaches[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAxW-UW48v0"]YouTube- Maddox at Hands Across the Sand event[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsoYpoqzR0g"]YouTube- Fafco Solar at Hands Across the Sand[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhU7_edQ2Wk"]YouTube- Hands Across the Sand St. Pete Beach[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA719W11SmI"]YouTube- C W Young.MPG[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np8inBsK3K0"]YouTube- Charlie Justice.MPG[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLFIIFEXmf4"]YouTube- Shara Anderson for Bill Nelson.MPG[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN9d6JORyCo"]YouTube- wakulla county commissioner.wmv[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSc4ybAEi9c"]YouTube- Surfrider Protests Oil Drilling in Florida[/ame]
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#93

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Collage of BMB :D​
Dave Rauschkolb avatar
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#94
Great Photos!

These are awesome photos Gidget!!!

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Lisa_at_the_beach avatar
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#95
I am totally blown away reading this thread. It was an honor to participate yesterday, and yes, I do think it should be an annual event. Having grown up on the Texas coast I am well too aware of what drilling does to the beaches and ecosystem in the area. Tar Balls, Black Water and smelly dead fish were a part of "going to the beach" when I was young. When I found this place I could not believe it was the same Gulf of Mexico I grew up on. We cannot allow drilling off our beautiful beaches. This one issue I will not let rest. Bravo to Dave for getting us started....
Kurt avatar
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#96
I have a feeling this will be an annual event even if it is 5 of us on the roof deck in 2028.
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#98
Just a heads up to everyone.. there is getting to be a bit of "discussion" going on in the comment section of the article that WMBB did on HATS. Seems it is the same person that chimed in on FB that other day. You have to register/login to be able to comment .....but that didnt stop me....
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yea.. I am sowal resident
Bobby J avatar
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#99
I have a feeling this will be an annual event even if it is 5 of us on the roof deck in 2028.

Annual? We may need to get on it for another one sooner then later. Let them know we mean business and DEMAND to be heard.
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#100
Grayton Beach







Gidget avatar
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#101
I love the shadows in the photos above. Very nice job!! There are some others Kurt posted and the shadows are fantastic as well. Excellent photos you guys/gals!!

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