Fidalgo Bay Day - Anacortes: FREE

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Saturday, August 26, 2023, 11:00am - 03:00pm


The 2023 Fidalgo Bay Day provides a variety of fun interactive activities for kids of all ages.  The activites vary from year to year, but typically include interactive educational displays, games, kid-friendly crafts, complimentary seafood samples, Samish no-host salmon BBQ and so much more.  Some of the popular children’s activities include fish prints, marine creature stamps, and face painting. The Shannon Point Marine Center’s mobile marine sea creature touch tank and the beach seine demonstration are also two very popular hands-on activities for the entire family.

Skagit County Marine Resources Committee website: Skagit MRC

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Come join us for a FREE, fun, family outing at our 19 th annual Fidalgo Bay Day event on Saturday, August 26, from 11 AM – 3 PM at the Samish Indian Nation’s beautiful Fidalgo Bay Resort, located at 4701 Fidalgo Bay Road in Anacortes. 


Celebrate our local estuaries and their beauty, history, and wonderful marine life. Take part in our popular beach seining demonstration, touch live marine critters in Shannon Point Marine Center’s undersea zoo, get creative at the kid friendly craft tables, play fun games, win prizes, and learn about local projects and volunteer opportunities at the many educational exhibits staffed by local agencies and organizations. New this year, Samish Indian Nation staff will be sharing a story hour from the Samish Librarian and Samish language vocabulary.  And be sure to stop by to say hello to Corra, the live mermaid!  Learn some cool things about Corra's underwater habitat beneath the Salish Sea. 


In addition to all the fun activities, you can fill your appetite with a fabulous no-host traditional Coast Salish salmon BBQ lunch! You’ll also get to taste complimentary samples of oysters and mussels from Taylor Shellfish grilled to perfection by our volunteers and delicious chowder samples from Bob’s Chowder Bar and Secret Cove Restaurant. And don’t forget to enter the FREE raffle for gift cards from three local seafood restaurants including Anthony’s at Cap Sante Marina, Bob’s Chowder Bar, and Secret Cove!


Thanks to our wonderful volunteers, the Fidalgo Bay Resort, Skagit Soils Inc Composting Facility, and the Skagit County Zero-Waste Program, for helping to make this a Zero-Waste Event!


Fidalgo Bay Day is an educational event of the Skagit County Marine Resources Committee (MRC) and is supported by
many partners and volunteers. For more information about the event: www.skagitmrc.org. This event is funded wholly
or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under Assistance Agreement

Location : Fidalgo Bay Resort, 4701 Fidalgo Bay Rd, Anacortes, WA 98221
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