By Nancy Israel, Education Program Co-Manager The Maritime Discovery Program was very successfully revived after a three-year break! This year, we worked with 20 Quilcene Middle School 7th and 8th graders for three days, followed by 85 Port Townsend 7th graders for eight days, and finished out the school year with 100 7th and 8th
By Danika Brown, Maritime High School Student Blogger Another great field trip awaited us Maritime High School students as we got our foul weather gear and got prepared to go kayaking on the Duwamish River. We were all filled with eagerness as we boarded the bus. Once we got to the Duwamish River, we had
By Daniel Evans, Race Boss Love and joy never really come up in phrases involving SEVENTY48, and only to say things like, “It was such a joy not to race this year,” or “I love watching the race tracker,” because SEVENTY48 is a 70-mile, all-muscle sufferfest, proven by the fact that last year less than
By Daniel Evans, Race Boss Artisanal cheese. Guns N’ Roses. Corn smut. Race to Alaska. At first glance, these are really bad ideas, but GNR won the World Music Award for Best Group, and a Humboldt Fog goat cheese quesadilla smeared with huitlacoche is powerful enough to build empires. In 2015, Race to Alaska grew
In April, Odyssey Middle School joined Salish Sea Expeditions on an adventure to Blake Island. Two groups of seventh and eighth graders explored the Canada goose-covered island for one night to learn shore science along with the real-world practices of testing water quality and plankton populations in the Puget Sound. Part of the day was
By Danika Brown, Maritime High School Student Blogger At 8:30 am, my fellow Maritime High School students and I got our foul-weather gear packed up in our bags and got our boots and hard hats ready to go to our local Manson Construction site, where we got a personal walking tour. When we were at
Vashon Nature Center’s mission is to provide transformative nature experiences through research, education, and community science for the benefit of our island home and the entire Salish Sea. We conduct educational programs in local schools, run community science and monitoring projects on a wide variety of wildlife ecology and marine topics, and conduct interpretive programs
By Danika Brown, Maritime High School Student Blogger We started working in the woodshop on February 28, and my fellow classmates and I were thrilled to be working there. With a lot of students having prior experience using power tools, building the canoes was somewhat of a breeze. On the first day in the woodshop,
In the waning days of 2021, we put out an unusual volunteer request—an all-points bulletin for a small team to inventory the collection of artwork and nauticalia that has gathered at the Northwest Maritime Center over the years. The collection includes 45+ years of original Wooden Boat Festival artwork, world-class drawings and paintings from generous
“Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy… you vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.”– An unknown hero Happy spring to you all! After three seasons of many events and operations being on pause, we are happy to