Westside : ‘Aquacops’ Will Take a Hike This Weekend
It may be a long and sandy walk, but two members of a Santa Monica Bay environmental group say they are looking forward to hiking along 46 miles of coastline this weekend.
The two-day BayKeeper Baywalk is sponsored by the nonprofit Santa Monica BayKeeper group. It will begin this morning at 7 a.m. at Point Vicente Park in Palos Verdes, and will offer people a chance to meet one another and enjoy the bay’s beauty, said Ruby Raitt, BayKeeper’s program coordinator. Raitt and BayKeeper’s executive director, Terry Tamminen, will celebrate the end of their first day at Santa Monica Pier at 8 p.m., and will begin Sunday’s hike at the pier at 7 a.m. The finale is scheduled for Point Dume in Malibu at sunset on Sunday.
The members of BayKeeper, which maintains a 24-hour hot line, are volunteers who patrol the waters and watersheds. Nicknamed “aquacops,” the members estimate that they have caught nearly 200 polluters since the organization’s inception in 1993.
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