One day each week, retired State Parks Interpreter Tina Dinzl-Pederson, assisted by Sound Water Stewards’ members, brings a highly portable pop-up educational booth to a public beach on Camano or Landing Park in Stanwood offering beach visitors an opportunity to learn about the local marine ecosystem with Sound Water Stewards.
Pop-ups occur on THURSDAYS, 10 am to 3 pm.
Here is the schedule:
- June 16 – Barnum Point Preserve – Find Tina near the sign that holds the park map in the parking lot
- June 23 – Barnum Point Preserve – Find Tina near the park map sign in the parking lot
- June 30 – Iverson Preserve – Find Tina near the sign and picnic table in the small parking lot
- July 7 – Cavalero Beach & Boat Launch – Tina will be easy to find at this small park
- July 14 – Iverson Preserve – Find Tina near the sign and picnic table in the small parking lot
- July 21 – Barnum Point Preserve – Find Tina near the park map sign in the parking lot
- July 28 – Cavalero Beach & Boat Launch – Tina will be easy to find at this small park
- Aug 4 – Hamilton Landing Park, Stanwood – tentative
- Aug 11 – Camano Island State Park
- Aug 18 – Iverson Preserve – Find Tina near the sign and picnic table in the small parking lot
- Aug 25 – Camano Island State Park
- Sep 1 – Barnum Point Preserve – Find Tina near the park map sign in the parking lot
Map of Camano Island County Parks
Stewards: If you would like to help anytime this summer, please use this SignUpGenius OR contact Joan right away. Tina provides personalized customized training for YOU:
- Sign up for a date and come. With a kit presentation, you can read the script/instructions and we discuss how to engage people. Watch Tina for a while and help when you are comfortable.
- Stewards pick a topic of interest or expertise; Beach walk, plastic trash, habitat, changing environment, wrack and detritus, animals found at the beach, shellfish and toxins, plants at the beach, forest/bluffs relation to beach, art in nature. At the site we discuss how to talk about these topics to people of varying ages and respect people’s time with short information sessions. Wort with Tina with our audience then move to separate presentation locations (one person will sit at the pop-up table and others will move into the field for talks & ID).
- Schedule a session or multiple training sessions soon where people can come get this training ahead of time without having the pressure of having people there watching. We can do some interactive training with group divided into audience and SWS educators. Talk with Joan if you want training in advance of your pop-up dates.
