[CINC] Carpinteria State Beach Outreach-6/11/11

[Staci Kaye-Carr]

What a wonderful outreach idea and event!!!
And that it was well attended was fabulous.
Your report literally gave me waves of goose bumps.
You guys ROCK!!!!!!!!!

Staci

On Jun 12, 2011, at 6:26 PM, paul jr petrich wrote:

> Ahoy All,
>  Saturday night Tara Brown and myself conducted a Power Point  
> campfire amphitheater presentation at the Carpinteria California  
> State Beach Park, featuring "Marine Mammals of the CINP and CINMS".  
> * Eighty nine attended, with over half being young kids who brought  
> their parents. Many had just scene Bottle Nose Dolphin cruise the  
> surf-line from their campgrounds. After introductory maps of the  
> CINP and CINMS , and Gray Whale  migration maps, and Blue Whale  
> sightings  within shipping lanes, were shown, the presentation was  
> conducted as if aboard a whale watch boat going through our  
> Sanctuary. A whale kit was displayed after the power point talk, and  
> questions answered as a multitude of attendees stayed around asking  
> questions and seeking info about access to or National Park, as well  
> as various whale watch opportunities.
>
>   Tara did a great job in closing with the Rainbow Bridge story,  
> after I showed a video clip of the first Chumash Tomol crossing to  
> the location of Swaxil at Scorpion Anchorage on SCI. We reminded the  
> very attentive audience about the fact that Chumash village that  
> existed within (and adjacent to) their campground was given the name  
> Carpinteria by the Spanish due to the building of so many Tomols at  
> the site.
>
>   Only the day before, the new Tomol Interpretive Play Area for  
> children was opened with much celebration. At that celebrated  
> opening Tumamait-Stenslie, spokesperson for the Chumash tribe, stood  
> on a replica of the Rainbow Bridge and read the creation story.  
> Soon, children were  playing on the replica of a dolphin under the  
> Bridge. When Tara read the Rainbow Bridge creation story at our  
> Saturday evening presentation, we showed a wonderful CINMS clip of  
> dolphin bow-riding! It seemed a very rewarding and timely outreach.  
> We will do it again in August.   Paul Petrich
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