[CINC] Carpinteria St Bch-7/24

[paul jr petrich]

Hello CINC Volunteers,
  Last night Tara Brown and myself presented a virtual whale watch program at Carpinteria State Beach to an audience of 85. Leanne Roth, the Park's interpretation director, energized a lot of her Junior Ranger campers to recruit family members to attend our Marine Mammals of the CINC and CINMS outreach show at the parks wonderful amphitheater. Leanne started the program by enlisting her Junior Rangers to a Park Clean -Up Campaign, which fit right into the emphasis we placed on the necessity of having a clean ocean environment for the continued recovery of many marine mammal species world wide. About 60% of our audience were children who brought their parents to the program. 
 
We introduced our audience to the CINP, as well as the CINMS. As the audience experienced viewing the most commonly encountered marine mammals on a typical whale watch trip, they were also introduced to what the CINMS and CINP do  in helping bring these wonders of the oceans back from the brink of extinction.
 
 Many in our crowd had seen a few of these ocean friends feeding and frolicking along the campsite beach shore: Many sea lions, some Harbor Seals, and Bottle-nose Dolphin. Again, at the end, many kids and  their folks remained at the end to see and touch the Whale Watch Kit display Tara laid out. Leanne even had some very impressive whale props we included in the display: A whale rib and a large piece of whale baleen. We will present the program again next month at Carpinteria State Beach as well as at El Capitan. Paul Petrich