Barnegat Bay Festival - June 3

The 10th Anniversary Barnegat Bay Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (rain or shine) on Sunday, June 3rd, 2007, at the beautiful waterfront Wanamaker Complex, in Island Heights, New Jersey (right next to Toms River, NJ).

This event is sponsored by the Barnegat Bay National Estuary Program with support from our partners, Ocean County College, and the Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

Join the Barnegat Bay National Estuary Program in celebrating their 10-Year Anniversary (and the 20-year anniversary of the National Estuary Program www.nationalestuaries.org) at the 10th annual Barnegat Bay Festival. Enjoy an entire day of Free Family Fun. Participate in fish printing, face painting, seedling planting and so much more. Environmental groups from the area will be there to answer any questions you may have regarding the environmentally responsible ways that you can enjoy and protect the beautiful Barnegat Bay and its watershed. Join us for an all-day music festival, decoy carving and casting demonstrations, and free pontoon boat tours. Artisans and crafters will be selling custom fishing rods, jewelry, marine art, photography, and more. So pack up the family and spend the day celebrating the nationally recognized BARNEGAT BAY at the Wanamaker Complex in Island Heights, New Jersey. Please visit our website at www.bbep.org or call 732-255-0472 for more information.

Sample of the events already scheduled for the festival:

• Get dazzlingly decorated with a free airbrush tattoo by Dana Endresen.
• Jenkinson’s Aquarium will be helping create an ocean life craft for children of all ages.
• Stop by the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science booth to build a crab out of sea shells.
• Visit the Ocean County Freeholders Public Affairs booth to make your own Watershed Willy, the storm drain mascot of the Barnegat Bay watershed! While you’re there, take a spin of the Tourism Wheel and win a prize.
• Cattus Island Park naturalists will help you make an animal and leaf rubbing to add to your Nature art collection.
• The Forest Resource Education Center will be giving out “tree cookies” and seedlings to start you on your way toward your spring planting.
• Make your own seal mask with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center.
• The staff and volunteers from the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve will once again offer kids an opportunity to try the ancient art of fish printing.
• The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will have a “touchy-feely” box containing items that should and should not be in the water. Can you figure out the difference?
• Keep your eyes peeled for Sparkles the Robot Trashcan Man, who will be wandering around the festival reminding you kids to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
• Visit the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium table and build yourself a horseshoe crab hat to keep the sun out of your eyes.
• Visit the GIANT mosquito at the Ocean County Mosquito Commission’s table and learn how to avoid those bites this summer.
• Get up close and personal with local seashore inhabitants with a visit to the Atlantic City Aquarium Touch Tank.

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