Roz Savage

Early Monday morning I started seeing Twitter posts from @rozsavage announcing her arrival to Honolulu. She was coming ashore after more than 3-months at sea rowing across the Pacific from California to Hawaii. This is an astonishing feat. Having been in various size vessels in the channels around our Hawaiian islands, from zodiacs to fishing boats, I can vouch for the unpredictability of the ocean. Like the Junk Boat crew who arrived just a week earlier, Roz Savage was delivering a message. The oceans are pollute with plastics and we have to do something about it. Our modern society produces so much plastic it is taken for granted. Whenever we toss out a plastic container, where does it go? If not a landfill, out into our ocean. I've been to a bay on Kaho`olawe appropriately called Opala Bay. It is completely crammed with discarded flotsam, from body boards, nets, slippers, containers to buoys, bikes, styrofoam, you name it. So with camera in hand I headed down to the Waikiki Yacht Club to join the media frenzy welcoming Roz to Hawaii. You can catch my 3-minute Qik.com video of her arrival and some Flickr photos of Roz and her tech laden row boat.