[CINC] Outreach/El Capitan/7/18

[paul jr petrich]

Ahoy Volunteers,
 Last night Tara Brown and Bruce Mathews joined me in presenting a virtual whale watch trip to 136 very, very attentive campers at El Capitan State Beach. Our presentation was titled  "Marine Mammals of Our CINP and CINMS". The outdoor amphitheater there is an ideal venue for such a power point outreach. The crowd was 90 % local Californians, but a show of hands indicated barely 10% of them had ever gone whale watching, and non had been to our Channel Islands National Park ( four of the islands were visible from the beach )!  Virtually everyone stayed for the 45 minute showing.  At least half of them came up to our whale kit table and display at the end: With lots of questions that included how to go whale watching and how to get to the islands.
 Two highlights for the evening were: Tara's dramatic telling of the Chumash Rainbow Bridge Story, and Bruce's exciting descriptionof his awesome last whale watch trip. Both brought a spontaneous round of applause from the appreciative crowd, of which about half were children of diverse ages.
>  We do the same program at El Capitan on August 11th, probably at 8 p.m. We have two coming up at the Carpinteria State Beach Amphitheater. One is this coming Tuesday @ 8:30, and the other on August 17th 8 p.m. We could use help on the later two at Carpinteria. Contact me if interested in helping out.   Paul 
 
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