We were framed!
The Schooner frame cover was completed on Friday.
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Starwood Hotels and Resort Helps Wrap Up the Waterfront
A special thanks to the 25 volunteers from Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide who made a difference at SoundWaters on Wednesday! SoundWaters benefited from the generosity of Starwood who lent us time,energy and hands-on muscle power to close down our waterfront for the season. Starwood volunteers scrubbed, removed old decals, and prepared the Optis for the winter […]
Molting Spider Crabs!
The spider crabs are molting in the SoundWaters aquarium! Spider crabs contain an exoskeleton that protects them from predators. As they grow, the exoskeleton becomes too tight and they have to molt. This is when a spider crab climbs out of its hard exoskeleton and grows a larger one. Depending on the age of the crab, they can go 2 […]
The Schooner SoundWaters haul’s out ending another great season.
With the mast’s pulled yesterday, the schooner SoundWaters was hauled out of the water today capping off a great 2014 season with: 1728nm traveled, 256 programs, and nearly 7,900 passengers. Now we will be busy putting the boat to bed for winter.
Last Sail of 2014
We had a great Science on the Sound Sail with the students from the Cathedral Academy in Bridgeport. Thanks to Greenwich Aviation for the fantastic aerial photograph.
Exploring the Sound with 6th Grade Students from Rippowam Middle School
Rippowam Middle School of Stamford, Connecticut paid a visit to SoundWaters for a day of exploring and hands-on learning. The 6th grade students performed water quality experiments, used seine nets to catch animals along the shores of Long Island Sound, learned the morphology of local live animals, including horseshoe crabs, sea stars, oyster toad fish, and explored Holly […]
What a trawl!
We picked up not 1 but 2 large tautog in the trawl today with the students from the St James School.
Cleanup Day Results!
83 volunteers picked up a total of 229 pounds of trash during yesterday’s Coastal Cleanup at SoundWaters. The top three items volunteers picked up at the park: nearly 1, 500 bottle caps (plastic and metal), over 900 food wrappers and over 800 cigarette butts, among many other items. Photo: Members of the Westhill High School […]
Sunday, October 5 – SoundWaters Coastal Cleanup Day
Join SoundWaters and 640,000 volunteer world-wide who are participating in International Coastal Clean-up events throughout the world. In 2013, volunteers picked up 12,329,332 tons of trash. Sunday, October 5, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Meet at the SoundWaters Coastal Center at Cove Island Park to help protect the coastline by picking up and counting debris […]
Benefit for SoundWaters – Sign of the Whale Gives Back – Thurs, Oct 2
Join SoundWaters at Sign of the Whale in Harbor Point on Thursday, October 2 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm for Happy Hour. $30 open bar, tickets purchased at the door and a portion of the proceeds go to SoundWaters. Sign of the Whale is located at 6 Harbor Point Road, Stamford, CT. Hope to see you […]
