Save Trestles
600 miles of the World's most magnificent coastline, SoCal's very last wilderness surfing beach
Free the 5
Free the 5 Now - not later. Dump the Non-Compete Clause, so we can fix our freeway-flow
BeltWay
Solve the problem where the problem exists. Not 14 miles south in preserved wilderness.
WHP
Wild Heritage Planners - Environmentalists & planning professionals dedicated to Smart Growth urban planning and the preservation of wilderness.
San Mateo
San Mateo, Trestle and San Mateo Creek Watershed - the last clean water run off in SoCal's 600 miles of coastline - Not Polluted.
Free the Tolls
turning OC toll roads into instant freeways
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Marni's reef
Educator, writer, activist-waterwomen,
mother of 2 big-wave surfers,
passionate advocate for healthy oceans
and natural wide open spaces.
Marni's motto;
Wisdom through experience.
Preservation through perseverance.
 I began snorkeling in Laguna Beach at the Oak Street reef in the early 1990's after ten years of living here and surfing or body surfing. A friend said, "You should see it, ten bat rays near the reef today." I said, "What reef?" At that time unless the waves were storm surf, the ocean was teal blue and clear as a fish tank here in Laguna. That's when I discovered Laguna Beach's reef. Everyday for an hour April to November I would snorkel the reef with two or three friends watching a wilderness that took my breath away. Bat rays and leopard sharks, brown and silver fish waves of thousands of fish, and the dotting orange of Garibaldi sprinkled the reef bringing daily surprise and joy. About seven years ago, the reef began to have spots of murky green water. We would tough it out to get back to the clear spots, hoping not to run head on to one of the critters we loved to see from a distance. It was usual to be able to see thirty or forty feet. On sunny days we could see our shadows on the sand. That water is gone. For over five years the water at Oak Street has never gone back to fish tank clear. It remains on its best days of still water, a murky green, like looking through jello. Today it is murk brown without any wave action. And you can't see a bat ray five feet away. That's why I'm fighting the toll road through the San Mateo wilderness. No developer's system will save our ocean. The earth, open valleys that filter rain water slowly are the lungs of the ocean. Orange County can't afford to lose our last wilderness. The ocean is dying. I still love the ocean and body surf continually. I don't snorkel anymore. I hurts too much to remember what we have lost. We must save our last wilderness ecosystem and work to take back our polluted creeks. We can do it if we keep working together.
--- Marni Magda |
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