Planning is UNDERWAY! Stay tuned. We are SO stoked to be attending Sharkcon for the 2nd year in a row. Its our most favorite event!! If you love ANYTHING related to the ocean ecosystem, come to Sharkcon 2025 and you will not regret it!!!
Come join us for a festive day at 1401 Gulf Blvd where we'll be cleaning up the beach and spreading holiday cheer at our Christmas market! Help keep our beaches clean while enjoying the winter wonderland vibes. After the clean-up, browse through our market for unique gifts and treats. Don't miss out on this opportunity to give back to the community and get into the holiday spirit!
*Clean Up 4-6pm *Christmas Market 4-8pm
*Christmas Music *Cotton Candy Machine * *Snow Machine *Christmas Decorations *Hot Chocolate *Apple Cider
Bring CASH, we will have a $10 per raffle ticket fun basket and a 50/50 raffle. More surprises to come but it currently includes 2 paddleboard or kayak rentals from Watersports West and a 5 hour fishing trip for TWO from Hubbard's Marina. Both great Christmas gifts!
Another new addition, PICS WITH SANTA!!! From 4-6pm come get your picture taken with Santa, courtesy of Groupers on the Gulf.
Please remember to register via the Eventbrite link. Its the only way we track attendance. If you clicked "going" on FB, please register and tell EVERYONE!!!
And don't miss Brunch with Santa and Mrs. Claus at Groupers on the Gulf that morning and Zen Massage & Yoga 13th Anniversary party (in conjunction with Winter Wonderland) with free giveaways, ALL on the same property!!!
Please consider donating $10 to making this event magical!
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This was SO FUN!!!! Over 300lbs of trash was collected by amazing earth loving people. We love seeing some of the same faces at every event, you guys are so committed and definitely saved many birds, sea turtles, dolphins, and manatees from being entangled in rope and other marine debris.
🛥💙Thank you so much to Black Label Marine Group for sponsoring the event.
🔥This was the first market I planned and executed all by myself and I think it turned out so great.
🧸Thank you Terri and Kathy for helping all night with the trash tribe tent and raffles. You two are so wonderful and also helped a lot when we had the donation center.
The Dj was rad, Marti was on the cotton candy machine.
The vendors were super cool and thank you so much to all who donated merchandise to the basket raffle. AB Designs, Co. still has some ADORABLE IRB gifts available. Check out her FB page and her shop in Largo, so inexpensive too!
🎟An excited lady won $680 in the 50/50 raffle.
⏳💸That raffle has started over again and is at Groupers on the Gulf. Be sure to stop in this week and get your tickets. Drawing is Thursday night.
Come join us at ZEN Massage & Yoga to kick off for a fun-filled event where participants will navigate through an obstacle course filled with debris challenges (A.K.A leftovers from Horrible Helene and Madness Milton). Get ready to test your agility, strength, and endurance in this exciting competition against yourself! Mind, body and soul!
Focus will be removing debris (large or small) from the beach and cleaning up remaining small debris piles leftover from the debris removal trucks on Gulf Blvd and side streets.
BYOR if possible, but we will have a limited supply of rakes as well.
Buckets will be provided. If you can have your own gloves, please bring but we will also have limited supply of gloves.
If you would like to make a small donation for this event, please see details below. Hope to see you there!!!
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🥁🪇🪘Florida Strong Debris Derby results are in!!! An astounding ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE pounds of trash removed 🗑🧹. Over 75 amazing souls showed up and crushed it. We created a mountain multiples times and bagged it up. We hope you all had a super fun time and we can't wait to do it again. Be on the lookout for our Winter Wonderland Trash Bash event for December. Its going to be snowtastical!!
Big thanks to Will and his BFF at IRB Creamery for traveling around on his fancy golf cart with a big trash can strapped on, passing out drinks and dumping buckets for people so they don't skip a beat. Speaking of IRB Creamery, someone found her sign that blew off!
Big hugs for everyone that helped with weigh in, distributing supplies, coordination, emotional support, etc. There were about 15 of us on that end and couldn't have done it without all of you!
Proud of all the kids that killed it. Hope you all continue growing to love and take care of your planet and all of its creations 🐭🦆🐢🐟🦈🐬🦝🌳🌴🪸🌍
Stay classy not trashy ✌️🩵🌊
Food, Live Music, Giveaways, Raffles, Mini Market, Prize for the most cigarette butts collected!
🌊🚭 Join Us for International Coastal Cleanup Day! 🚭🌊 Be a part of something bigger! 🌍
Join us at Chicago Jaqx Pizzeria & Grill with Tobacco Free Florida for International Coastal Cleanup Day, partnered with Ocean Conservancy and help us make a difference.
Together, we can protect our beautiful coastlines and promote a healthier, tobacco-free environment.
Goin Coastal Golf Carts of IRB will be providing golf cart rides to drop off you amazing volunteers along the beach for trash and butt collection.
Chicago Jaqx will be providing light refreshments, live music and a mini market.
Why Should You Attend?
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Today was so great!! Thank you SO SO much to Chicago Jaqx Pizzeria & Tap House and Goin' Coastal Golf Cart Rental & Bike Shop for hosting the event and making the best “cigarette butt snatcher” competition winners basket filled with joy! Tobacco Free Florida and Ocean Conservancy for their smoking cessation guidance and giveaways today, Brenda M Vendelboe, Realtor for always helping us, The Spice & Tea Exchange for giving out free coupons and samples, and Sea Gypsyirb for bringing their adorable mobile shop and most of all, all the amazing people that chose to spend their day with us!!! There were so many events going on today for international coastal clean up day so we are so thankful you spent it with us.
So much trash and cigarette butts were collected, it was a close competition! 2.2 pounds of butts! That is alot!!! We collected 2.5 pounds of recyclables and over 150 pounds of trash!!
For many years, Madeira Beach Municipal Marina has hosted their annual Amphibious Trash Round Up with Trash Pirates Of Mad Beach and Old Salts. We are super excited that we are adding a component to this event, an On-Water Derelict Crab Trap Tournament! Please see below to visit the site for all details and registration.
We are in need of supplies for this event. If you are able to, please consider helping with tarps to protect the boats and buoy poles to grab the crab trap line, amazon link below.
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Its Mad Beach Marina's ANNUAL AMBPHIBIOUS TRASH ROUND UP! Join us to clean Madeira Beach waterways!
WIN prizes! FREE lunch! Participate from either boat or land.
FREE TO ENTER – Register today by going to the link below.
https://oldsaltfishing.org/yout.../mad-beach-trash-round-up/
If you are participating in the on-water derelict crab trap retrieval division, you must click "yes" to the "Derelict Trap Removal" question so we know how many boaters will be participating. I will be sending out the official rules for the trap retrieval so make sure you put in the correct email address and phone number while registering. If you have any questions about the crab trap retrieval, please email or call irbtrashtribe@gmail.com, 727-421-3877.
Start Time: 6am / Weigh In Time: 12pm – in line or checked in by 1pm
Held at the Madeira Beach Marina
Lunch provided for all participants
Derelict Trap Removal
Let’s clean our waterways of the derelict crab traps to improve the ecosystem and kickstart the upcoming season for the crab fisherman. Prizes for the team with the most collected traps. Indian Rocks Beach Trash Tribe is permitted by the FWC for this event during the closed stone crab season.
Questions? Call the Marina at 727-399-2631 or email info@oldsaltfishing.org
If you have questions regarding the on-water crab trap retrieval, call 727-421-3877 or irbtrashtribe@gmail.com
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What a Crabalicious day it was! Such a big impact in such little time. Dozens of derelict crab traps were removed from the Madeira beach/Treasure Island water. Over 1300 lbs in traps and 300 lbs in trash collected.
Most of the traps had either no tags or 2021-2022 tags on them so they had been abandoned in the water for a few years now.
The Mayor of Mad Beach and her husband got down and dirty and removed many crab traps. Mad Beach Municipality Marina manager, Crabby, collected so many traps. Freedom Boat Club, Captain Katie, took a father/son duo out and they had so much fun. Old Salts colllected 54 lbs of trash out of the water. A mangled capsized John boat was towed in. So many other people, just wonderful people that love the environment and the water and want to make an impact and DID.
We can’t wait to do it again! Thank you so much to everyone involved today.
We have gone to SharkCon over the last few years just as fans because we absolutely love how educational it is. We are so excited because this year we have partnered with SharkCon and will be one of their exibitors this year!!!! SharkCon comes back bigger and better in 2024 with the stars of the shark world, celebrities, photographers and more!
When you experience SharkCon, you will dive deep into the world’s oceans. Everyone is connected to the ocean, but there are so many more secrets to learn about its amazing inhabitants. SharkCon is an event suitable for the casual consumer of shark lore, to the most intense aficionado of shark science. If it’s about sharks, it’s at SharkCon! BUT its not just about sharks...its about every being in the ocean and how we can protect it. We hope you will come and see all the amazing local and national organizations as well as guest speakers.
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We had such a fintastic time at Sharkcon 2024 and met so many amazing people and organizations. We have already started collaborating with some and looking forward to the future of marine conservation and making an impact for future generations.
It was inspiring to see so many people that care about the marine environment and we met so many young kids that aspire to be future marine biologists. There is hope for the future.
Post 4th of July festivities clean up. Have fun filling your bingo card while saving the environment and animals from trash pollution and being a SUPER TRASH HERO! Fill your bingo card for a chance to win prizes.
Adults free beer or cider, kids free soda or kombucha from the best brewery on the beach, Anecdote Brewery.
You can register to attend on the FB event page (link below) or if you are bringing a group, please use the eventbrite link below.
https://www.facebook.com/events/988372126214276/
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/904983870117?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Trash Bingo was so much fun! Thank you so much to everyone who decided to spend their precious time with us and cleaning our shoreline, keeping the animals safe and beautifying the community.
We collected 215.56 POUNDS of trash, bingo cards were filled!
Some notable "Found Something Weird" items were a fake nail with a Band-Aid on it, a blowfish, a walking cane, an old flipper, toothbrush, a flannel (in the summertime), a fake spider, a storage tote lid that said "I Don't"...? and just so many funny random items.
Were able to piece together a whole scuba set and wardrobe. It's just amazing how much trash you can find in such little time.
BIG THANKS to Bluetherapy for helping with coordination all day, Goin' Coastal Golf Cart Rental & Bike Shop for donating their reliable, fun golf carts and for spending their day with us. Sea Gypsyirb for donating their hand made IRB sand bracelets, Bluetherapy for donating a super cool gift bag of goodies, Watersports West for donating paddle board rentals, Hubbard's Marina for donating a dolphin cruise, Dogfish Tackle & Marine for donating a gift card. We hope all the raffle winners were stoked.
And the amazing staff at Anecdote Brewing Co., literally the best brew. Even if you don't drink...you will love it.
Link to more photos from the event:
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Join us and MANY AMAZING ORGANIZATIONS attending the World Oceans Day Celebration at the Rumfish Beach Resort on St Pete Beach.
World Ocean Day is an annual event celebrated on June 8th to raise awareness about the importance of the ocean and promote its conservation. It's a day to reflect on the crucial role the ocean plays in sustaining life on Earth, providing us with oxygen, regulating the climate, and supporting a vast array of marine biodiversity. The day also serves as a reminder of the various threats facing the ocean, such as pollution, overfishing, climate change, and habitat destruction. Many organizations and individuals around the world participate in activities and initiatives aimed at protecting and preserving the ocean on this day and throughout the year.
Register for free on the Eventbrite link and see all the organizations attending. We are SO EXCITED!!!!!!
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Calling all nest guardians! It is officially sea turtle nesting season. Let's welcome these majestic, endangered species to a clean, dark, obstacle free coastline.
Proudly partnered with Slyce Pizza of IRB who will be providing appetizers for the volunteers. Come join us and learn all about the sea turtles in this educational experience.
For your enjoyment, Sea turtle decorations and coloring pages/crayons will be provided all day to families dining in.
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Just wow. What an amazing day. Everyone who said they were coming, showed up in full force. All 130
souls!!!!! I hope you all had a great time today and are proud of yourselves for the contribution you made to the environment and to protect the sea turtles and all other animals and birds from trash pollution.
257.23 lbs of trash collected and 26 lbs of plastic and aluminum cans were recycled. So proud of all you trash heroes today.
Thanks so much for the teams that came from Raymond James, Holiday Inn Express Largo, FL, Holiday Inn Express Clearwater East - Icot Center, Orangetheory Fitness Largo, the St Pete Girls Who Walk and Arnold Jewelers.
And our team that helped weigh and sort trash, check in etc.
Huge thanks to Slyce Pizza on IRB for hosting us and cooking food for everyone and Goin' Coastal Golf Cart Rental & Bike Shop for always supporting our efforts and providing such a cool ride to transport trash heroes to cover more ground.
None of this would have been possible without the help of many businesses who let us use their parking lots. Guilty Sea Sports Pub, indian rocks beach post office, Holiday Inn Harborside, Indian Rocks Beach CVS on IRB and the owner of the closed down gas station on Gulf and 5th.
RAFFLE TIME
Winner of 2 SUP or Kayak rentals from Watersports West is Linda Perry.
Winner of $25 Dogfish Tackle GC (accompanied with Arnold Jewelers fishing shirt, Cca Florida hat, Bloody Mary Mix and some other items is Alex Blackwelder.
Collect at least a pint of trash and receive a free pint of beer from our Co-Host, Anecdote Brewery! Let's combine the celebration of the holiday with environmental stewardship and take to Indian Rocks Beach to remove trash, plastics and marine debris to help keep our waterways clean and marine animals and ecosystem thriving. We hope to see you there!!
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Results are in from the St. Paddy's Day Beach Clean Up on Indian Rocks Beach, Florida. Thanks so much to the 23 kind folks who stopped by and grabbed a bucket and for Kirsten and Philip at Anecdote Brewing Co. for being the most amazing hosts.
We collected 87lbs of trash that could have ended up in our waterways. Interesting finds were a pair of men's panties, shorts, mittens, neck pillow, 3 clothing security tags, a moldy hard piece of bread, a tiny penguin (far away from home), grandmas cookies and MANY blue straws and cups from a local restaurant.
Check out our events and we hope to see you May 4th at Slyce Pizza. If you would like to donate $1 towards the next beach clean-up, please venmo or paypal @irbtrashtribe and thanks so much for all your support and if you see a piece of trash on the beach or in the street, please pick it up for the sake of mother nature and she will reward you in many ways.
Who's going to the "Rotary Runs the Beach" race?! Click below to register on their website and we hope to see you there! We will be on the sand cheering you on. Stop by and see us before you get competitive!
Come grab your bucket, trash grabber and Valentine goody bag.
Trashy treasures on the shore,
But together, we'll find more.
With gloves on hands and hearts aligned,
A cleaner beach, we'll surely find!
We are so grateful for the 30 souls that came out today to give thanks to Mother Nature and to help keep the marine animals safe.
Huge thanks to our sponsors Arnold Jewelers and Orangetheory Fitness Largo Surfing's Evolution & Preservation Foundation and Goin' Coastal Golf Cart Rental & Bike Shop for staying busy and shuttling the amazing volunteers all around the Belleair causeway.
We collected 189.71 lbs of trash. Just look at this trash pile, so exciting! Thank you so much for the loyal folks that have been to every event so far.
We hope to see you all again for the St. Pattys Day event being announced soon.
Co-Hosted with GreenTown Kids and the community for their annual New Year Beach Cleanup!
Meet at the 17th Ave. Beach Access and county parking lot in Indian Rocks Beach to sign in, get a parking pass, and cleanup supplies. Help pick-up trash on the beach and keep our beach and ocean clean.
The flurries were out yesterday but that didn’t stop 60 people from coming out to clean the coastline, even passerby’s grabbed a bucket and hit the sand. We had many visitors stop by to talk about trash. So many great people out there. The best moment was when a mother and her three young daughters were leaving the beach and stopped at our tent and the little girls said they were leaving the beach to go get ice cream but wanted to help clean the beach first instead good job mom!! Thanks to everyone that chose to donate their time on their day off and to Green Town Kids for collaborating.
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