Superpod World Record Breakers on New Quay Beach

To help celebrate 20 Years of Marine Conservation with the Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Center (CBMWC) and the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales last weekend, we joined the superpod world record attempt on New Quay beach and sponsored the Schools Art Competition.

What a wonderful day! 

BBC Springwatch's Iolo Williams launched the world record attempt (see video below). We did it! We were ‘largest gathering of people forming the shape of a dolphin’ ever - all 335 of us. To make the human superpod look like a dolphin we were all asked to wear a blue or grey top and were given dolphin masks to wear.

Later in the day Iolo Williams and our Morag judged the schools art competition. 

Schools from the Cardigan Bay area were invited to:

Submit a piece of art which showcases why you love Cardigan Bay and/or how we can protect it. The art piece can be made in any medium for example a poster, sculpture or even a video. The submissions should be made as group submissions rather than individuals, for example class submissions or a whole school submission.

The winning school will receive £200 of Earthborn paints from us.

All the entries to the competition were fabulous. After a good look at all of the artwork much deliberation Iolo and Morag decided the winning piece was by Llanarth Primary School.

Other competition entries were from New Quay Primary School, Cenarth Primary School, Beulah Primary School, Trewen Primary School and St Padarn Primary School.

Glyn Hyett, Director of Celtic Sustainables, said:

It was a great day. Wonderful to see so many kids taking part in the superpod and learning more about our marine wildlife. It's was a privilege to support something I believe in and help inspire the next generation to care for our seas.

More photographs from the event can be found on our facebook superpod gallery.

A big thank you to everyone that took part. Special thanks to all of the volunteers including Abi Haywood who spent the day painting stones with Earthborn claypaints using sticks as paint brushes and drawing a crowd of eager pebble decorators.

Don't forget to check out Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Center (CBMWC) and the great work they do with the Living Seas Programme.

Thumbnail image for this post from a photography by Janet Baxter.