🌱  Skip bottled water and carry a reusable canteen.
🌱  Look for creative, eco-friendly ideas to reuse your plastics, it’s fun!
🌱  Bring a reusable mug when you order coffee.
🌱  Say, “No straw, please!” (straws are among the most common types of plastic garbage found on beaches).
🌱  Wear clothing made of natural, not synthetic, materials (polyester clothing sheds microplastics when laundered).
🌱  If you must use disposable tableware, get the compostable kind.
🌱  Don’t just discard electronics. Aim to repair them, sell gadgets and computer parts, or find a facility at which you can turn them in for recycling.Â
🌱  Bring your own container for takeout and leftovers.Â
Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary is home to some 13 species of cetaceans (dolphins, whales and porpoises)! Pacific white-sided dolphins like this one are among the most frequently seen at the sanctuary, and are incredibly social animals.Â
While these dolphins may sidle right up alongside a boat to investigate, never try to touch, chase, or feed them. Pacific white-sided dolphins are among the many species protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and need our help to stay safe and healthy in their natural environment.Â
video of a costa rican megapod of spinner dolphins. with over three thousand dolphins in the pod, it is by far the largest such congregation ever filmed. (ocean gifs)
Humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins are known to play together. Observed off the coast of Hawaii, whales lifted dolphins high into the air so the dolphins could use the whale’s head as a slide back into the water. via tea_and_biology
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