Trash Panda Brigade

Nice memory shared by Ocean Week Canada - Pacifica Paddle Sports with the Trash Panda Brigade and friends post-cleanup of the Southern Gulf Islands last year.
Looking forward to creating some new memories again for Ocean Week Victoria 2026 on May 30!

Each year, people across the country host events that celebrate our connection to the ocean and local waterways. Whether you’re inland or coastal, urban or rural—everyone’s invited.

🎉 Host an event
📍 Add it to the Event Portal
📚 Use our onboarding toolkit to get started

Let’s grow this national movement of ocean connection together.

🔗 Learn more: oceanweek.ca

📩 Questions? Reach out: [email protected]

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Organiser un événement!

La Semaine de l’océan Canada revient du 1er au 8 juin 2026 - et vous êtes invité·e à y participer.

Chaque année, des gens à travers le pays organisent des événements pour célébrer notre lien avec l’océan et les voies navigables locales. Que vous soyez en région côtière ou intérieure, en milieu urbain ou rural - tout le monde est le bienvenu.

🎉 Organisez un événement
📍 Ajoutez-le au Portail des événements
📚 Utilisez notre nouvelle trousse d’accueil pour bien démarrer

Faisons grandir ensemble ce mouvement national de connexion et d’engagement envers l’océan.

🔗 En savoir plus : semainedelocean.ca

📩 Questions ? Contactez : [email protected]

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Ocean Week Victoria 2026 kicks off at Esquimalt Gorge Park May 30 and the Trash Panda Brigade will be there leading an ocean cleanup. Details to sign up coming soon!

Splish Splash, we're throwing an Ocean Bash 🌊

GWAS and are teaming up once again to bring you the Gorge Splashtacular Ocean Festival, the kickoff event to Ocean Week Victoria!

Join us at the Gorge Waterway Nature House on Saturday May 30th from 12:00 - 4:00pm for ocean inspired crafts, marine touch tanks, a garbage clean by the Trash Panda Brigade, a live ocean painting demonstration and ocean-themed activities from your favourite local organizations.

We hope to sea you there 🐠

"All it takes is one person to do the right thing. And if it bothers you enough, that person is you. Something can always be done. You can make a difference".
- Mel Robbins, The Let Them Theory

Excited to see BC Marine Trails Network new 'Marine Debris' layer added to their already fabulous mapping tool;
AND even more thrilled to see some of our site reports among the first mapped here!

You too can participate in this important recreation-led stewardship:

If you spot debris while out paddling:
- Pack it out if you can do so safely
- Store it above the high tide line if you must leave it behind
- Snap a photo
- Submit a site report https://www.bcmarinetrails.org/reporting/

Let’s keep the coast clean together! 💙

Thank-you for the nice words Township of Esquimalt!

Gorge Waterway saw 760kgs of trash removed by hard-working volunteers | Corporation of the Township of Esquimalt June 24, 2025Type(s)NewsEarlier this June, some dedicated volunteers made a big impact on one of the region's most unique areas.To celebrate Oceans Week, volunteers from the “Trash Panda Brigade”—a group of local Paddle Canada instructors (SUP, kayak and canoe) who routinely do ocean cleanups ...

Thank-you BC Marine Trails Network!

And a big thank-you to our friends who made these days so successful - Victoria Canoe and Kayak Club, Tillicum Centre, Pacifica Paddle Social Paddlers, Seaquaria Ocean Education, Gorge Waterway Nature House, Peninsula Streams Society, Marine Coursac, Township of Esquimalt and Island Junk Removal Solutions Ltd !

Some very busy Trash Pandas this week on the occasion of Ocean Week 2025 showing our love for our community, our favourite paddling places and as always, the Salish Sea! 💙

Father and son, paddling together to clean up the ocean, one shopping cart, rope and tire at a time. They helped the Trash Panda Brigade with our collection of 1675 pounds of marine trash collected in one day!
This dad brought his family to the Earth Day clean up we did in April, and his kids had so much fun helping out.
When Ocean Week Victoria rolled around, the son was so excited for another opportunity to join all the adults in spending a Saturday searching for sunken“trashure” in the Gorge waterway.

Shout out to dads for supporting their kid's goals, like this new found passion of paddling and spending time in nature doing cleanups.
Protecting the ocean we love can start early!







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“Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead

Lifting the Salish Sea's burden a little yesterday 💙

Thank-you Tillicum Centre for supporting our efforts and sponsoring this cleanup!