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Celebrate One Tide on One Day around One World because... We All Live Downstream

Organisation: Cowichan Bay Improvement Association, the Cowichan Community Land
Trust Society, the Cowichan Valley Naturalist Society and the Cowichan
Estuary Preservation Society
With assistance from the Marine Ecology Centre in Sidney, the Cowichan
Valley Regional District, the Cowichan tribes and many local businesses,
individuals and organisations.
Where: the Maritime Centre, Cowichan Bay, Canada
Telephone: 250 661 0477
Contact: Pierre@Islandnet.com
Start Time: 10:00
Finish Time: Approx. 15:30
Extra Details:
- The day begins at the crack of 10:00am by the Maritime Centre in Cowichan Bay for refreshments and instructions.
- From 10:30 until 12:30 everyone will join together in cleaning the beaches and shoeline of Cowichan Bay.
- At 1pm we gather for "Food & Frivolity" with complimentary lunch and live entertainment.
- At 2pm sharp, to coincide with the low tide of the day, biologists will take interested children and adults on to the beach for the Critter Count. This is called a 'quadrant study': a ssquare of beach is marked out and participants sift and ig their defined area in order to count all the living things in it. This data will be collected and will contribute towards the ongoing monitoring of the health of Cowichan Bay. Divers will simultaneously be exploring the wharf areas for relics and treasures of our history.

Organisation: Marine Ecology Station, Khoyatan Marine Lab
Where: Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
Telephone: 250 655 1555
Website: www.mareco.org
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Extra details: "Adopt our Sidney Sea shore"!

Centrally supported by riverOcean , each individual LowTide event is unique, reflecting the interests and skills of the people who put it on, and the specificity of the environment it celebrates. But whatever form the day takes, LowTide is about people sharing the wonder of our coastal, inter-tidal and near shore marine environments.

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