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Wednesday 23 September
Reef Care Project 2015
Pelican Adventures kicks it up a notch
a great job and we are very the amazing opportunity to
happy to have been able to see a manta ray swim by.
experience the effort of Peli- As the Champagne Brunch
can Adventures and Aruba Cruise headed to the last
in keeping the environment stop – Malmok reef – guests
they work in clean for future enjoyed a delectable lunch
generations,” a second guest consisting of a freshly made
added to the conversation. seafood paella and chicken
Thanks to 21 years of creat- potato salad accompanied by
ing awareness among the mimosas.
inhabitants of the island we “Who knew that when we
can be proud to announce booked this cruise we would
that all Pelican Adventures end up joining the locals in
guests and crew managed to their effort to create and
eliminate as waste was a few maintain a sustainable envi-
fishing lines tangled in the ronment for the future and
reef, one plastic bag and one look we even got a great sou-
abandoned anchor. venir to remember the oc-
As the cruise moved along to casion... our own Reef Care
the second site – the Antilla 2015 T-shirt,” they all said
ship wreck – guests marveled with big smiles on their faces
at the beauty of Aruba’s un- as they posed with the catch
derwater world and even had of the day.q
PALM BEACH - Since its incep- Antilla ship wreck.
tion in 1994 Pelican Adven- As guests were welcomed
tures has joined the efforts of to their Champagne Brunch
Castro Perez from the Aruba Cruise with an assortment
Tourism Authority to clean of breads and cold cuts the
up Aruba’s beaches and reefs catamaran made its way to
and create the awareness on the first stop – Boca Cata-
the importance of taking care lina where everybody got
of the environment, not only their fins and masks on and
for visitors but also for the jumped in the water to en-
sustainability of the island for joy the wonderful colors of
generations to come. the Aruban marine life and at
This year Pelican Adventures the same time looking out for
has kicked it up a notch in- any waste that needed to be
viting guests who booked a removed from the reefs going
cruise on the already famous all the way to the beach.
Champagne Brunch to join “We went in thinking that we
captain, crew and Pelican would find a lot of waste like
Adventures staff in the effort bottles, cups, plastic plates...
to clean-up the reefs at Boca but instead we found very
Catalina and Malmok – two clean waters and a thriving
of the most visited snorkeling marine life,” one of the guests
sites on the island besides the commented “Aruba has done
