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| The winners of the 2011 Build Your Own Boat Race Best Costume Category PCCS Image |
The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies invites you to
bring family and friends to Whale Week- A Celebration of the Sea!
This fun, marine-themed festival, which takes place between
July 23 and July 28, was launched in 2011 and is the brain-child of the Center’s
Education director, Jesse Mechling, who wanted to expand visitors’ connection
with the marine environment on the Outer Cape.
Whale Week features a host of fun, family-friendly events
and activities, all with a briny theme.
The festival begins on Monday, July 23 at 5pm with the
hugely entertaining Home Made Boat Race, sponsored and coordinated by Venture Athletics Kayak Shop.
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| Jesse Mechling, Director for Education, shares the secret wonders of Provincetown's tidal flats with a group of enthusiastic, young naturalists. PCCS Image |
Teams from local businesses and organizations will launch
their water-craft on the beach behind the Whalers Wharf and the Crown and Anchor. Jay Critchley of the Provincetown Community Compact will emcee and
Candy Collins-Boden of the Provincetown Chamber of Commerce, Erin Atwood of the
Provincetown Business Guild and comedian Mimi Gonzalez will judge. Points will
be awarded not only for the contestants’ speed on the water, but also on the
inventiveness of their boat and costume, and on the amount of marine debris
they collect en route. Pledges collected by participating teams will support
the Center’s education programs.
On Tuesday, July 24 at 9:30am, Center naturalists will lead
an exploration of the tidal flats at the West End Breakwater. This free tour introduces
people to the diverse and fascinating critters that inhabit the harbor and
marsh. At 11 am a Marine Scavenger Hunt begins from the Center for Coastal
Studies kiosk on MacMillan Pier, with a “shopping list” that will take
participants along the wharf and across the town beaches. Tuesday activities
wrap up with a Nautical Trivia Night at 7:30 pm at the Underground Bar on
Commercial Street.
For more information, please contact:
Cathrine Macourt
508.487.3622 Ext. 103
cmacourt@coastalstudies.org
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