Beach cleaning you say? Bring out the Side Mounts . . .

We had a very bizarre morning on Wednesday. Staff, divers of all types and snorkelers from the Hilton, Intercontinental and the Westin Hotels all grouped together in a big team effort to clean up Dragonara reef, Casino Reef and the Roman Baths.

After another of our “expertly” drawn maps was constructed everyone volunteering got split into groups with an Instructor to guide them.

Everyone was briefed on where they would be collecting rubbish and they were each given a bag.

While this was going on Ed was strapping himself into a Razor Harness to try it out for size.

Nearly there, now the other one . . .

I think that’s the first time I’ve seen him laugh! we must be on to a winner with these . . .

The snorkelers headed off out on the boat with Phil. Their job being to collect any floating rubbish and - if they are good at duck diving – some rubbish off the bottom.

The divers went off to their allocated section of the Reef with their guide and collected want rubbish they came across along the bottom.

With Jason leading the way his group managed to collect some odd items of rubbish!

Well if you know Jason you know he’s always up for a bit of a challenge . . .

I just hope that pipe wasn’t connecting anything important :s

After all the hard work everyone involved was rewarded with a buffet of sandwiches, cakes, fruit and every non-alcoholic drink you can think of, courtesy of the Westin Hotel.

Naturally Nev and Alan made sure anything left over was stored safely in the fridge for later . . .