The Human Sign

This morning we went to an event at St. Kilda Beach. A group called L.I.V.E (locals into Victoria's environment) was organizing a human sign to spell out "CLIMATE CHANGE - ITS IN YOUR HANDS" in the sand on the beach using 10,000 people to form the letters.

We walked down to the beach at around 10:40 this morning, the event was supposed to start at 11. Everyone was just milling around, there were several school classes that had signed up to come to the event. We saw some of the volunteers outlining the letters in the sand with ribbons tied to sandbags.

After they had everything set up they let everyone start filling in the letters. We sat in the letter A in CHANGE. We sat at the bottom of the bridge going across the A. I hope that makes sense. You can see us in the pictures on the website I linked in the title of the post. Carly is in a white fleece and I have a gray sweatshirt on. There was a plane that took several passes overhead and photographed the beach. The sign changed from "in your hands" to "in our hands". There were also some helicopters from the local news that flew by taking shots of the beach.

There were some crazies out at the event too. There were 3 women doing some sort of interpretive dance along the boardwalk that everyone was getting a chuckle out of. Carly was narrating the story for them, she thought they were supposed to be trees fighting against people trying to cut them down.

There was also a crazy lady in our letter that had a little dog, either a greyhound or whippet, it was wearing a coat and she kept holding it up in the air for the cameras when the plane went overhead and the helicopters went by. Carly got a good shot of her holding it up. After the plane went over everyone was supposed to walk to the water to "draw a line in the sand against climate change". I don't think that some people knew about this because they only stayed there for a minute and then everyone just started to leave.

The pictures came out pretty well, they didn't post a total number of people that showed up but they said over 5000 RSVP'd. Check out the website I linked and the photos on our site too.