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Whidbey Watershed Stewards joins forces with the Orca Network to present our first Orca/Salmon homecoming celebration. On Saturday, October 9 from Noon to 9 pm we’ll offer a host of activities, games, displays, story-telling, music and food at Fin Fest, in and around Freeland Hall overlooking Holmes Harbor. This is an event for all ages!
We will need many volunteers to make it happen – are you one of them? Just contact us to find out how to help. Email to info@whidbeywatersheds.org or call 360-579-1272.
Fin Fest will also feature a silent auction to raise money for the work of WWS and Orca Network. Do you have a special item or talent that you can donate? The value is tax-deductible. We can use dinners, movie or theater tickets, time share holidays, wine, landscape services, etc.
Contact us as above to submit an item. And come on Oct 9 prepared to bid!
Speakers and special happenings that day include:
4 pm – David Montgomery, author/ UW professor/MacArthur Fellow, speaks on the history and lore of the Chinook salmon – the “King of Fish”.
5 pm – Salmon Bar-B-Q (Coho, not Chinook) prepared by Dave Anderson – $15 for a full plate and all the trimmings!
Also, live music from Russell Clepper and Sarah Dial Primrose.
7 pm – Brad Hanson, NOAA fisheries biologist who studies the diets of Orca whales, speaks on the importance of Chinook salmon to our Southern Resident orca population.
1 pm – Killer Whale Tales with Jeff Hogan
2 pm – Jeff Guidry and his mature bald eagle “Freedom” from the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center tell their inspiring story.
3 pm – Storyteller Jill Johnson entertains with stories of sea creatures and First Nation peoples.
This festival will highlight the links between the salmon and whales with whom we share Puget Sound, and welcome the return of the salmon and the Southern Resident orcas to Puget Sound waters for the fall season. Come and celebrate!
