Mar 25, 2013

The Alternative Spring Breakers have officially returned to the frigid north. I have to say it was quite a rude awakening when we landed in Denver and the runway was lined with snow plows and we could see our breath as soon as we stepped off the plane, especially since we had been lying in the sun on a beach just about five hours prior. I guess all we will have...

Mar 23, 2013

We have officially finished our last day of service here in San Diego. Our last two days in Torrey Pines have been a little different than our time spent in Border Field State Park and Otay Lakes. While our other locations required more digging and manual labor, Torrey Pines State Reserve mostly required us to weed out invasive plant species that were preventing...

Mar 21, 2013

With a slight sunburn, bruises, and sore muscles I finish my fifth day in San Diego. I of course wear all of these things as a badge of honor earned from hard work and fun. Shoveling and hauling rocks on Sunday and Monday was definitely hard work, but nothing compares to the ocean kayaking that took place on Tuesday. Ocean kayaking – I mean it seems simple...

Mar 19, 2013

But the miracle of nature was the great Mexican aloe, or maguey, whose clustering pyramids of flowers, towering above their dark coronals of leaves, were seen sprinkled over many a broad acre of the table-land. This quote about agave plants by historian William H. Prescott eloquently sums up most of our first day working at the Tijuana River Estuary in Border...

Mar 18, 2013

Hello All, We have all been busy over in California so I do not have a blog for you today. We have accomplished a lot in our short time here so far. I do have lots of photos from our projects and the sites we have been able to take in. I hope you enjoy. Photos: Bridget Wilson Waves crashing on the beach south of Border Field Park i

Mar 17, 2013

The Alternative Breakers have officially arrived in San Diego! Not without a few spectacles of course. I guess that is what you get when take a bunch of students from a minimally populated state and put them in the middle of large city grocery store. Yeah, you heard me right. We had issues at the grocery store. Did you know some stores won’t let you take...