Tribal Journeys 2009

SEA helped a group of young people from Victoria, British Columbia, participate in Tribal Journeys 2009. They were joining Native American groups from throughout coastal Canada and the Puget Sound region in traveling many directions and distances in authentic canoes across the water to Suquamish, on the Olympic Peninsula, for a week of feasting, storytelling and heritage appreciation. See the article in the South Whidbey Record: Native canoe journey has a Freeland pair alongside.

LEAF School Project, August 2008

Participants worked to rebuild Civilian Conservation Corps trails on Orcas Island with SEA and Washington State Parks. Use these links for more information and photos:

• Nor'westing Magazine article: S.E.A.: Service, Education, Adventure (3.7 MB PDF document)
• photo album 1
• photo album 2

Aqua Chautauqua, July 2008

OSPI / EEAW Sustainable Design Project

SEA is partnering with the OSPI / EEAW Sustainable Design Project, which held the first training for the program aboard the Indigo in July 2008 and will be conducting a second teacher training for the project in September.

Whidbey Nearshore Trip, June 27, 2008

A group boarded the Indigo for a trip from Langley around to the west side of Whidbey to see where migrating juvenile salmon use our nearshore marine habitats. Sponsored by Whidbey Watershed Stewards (WWS) and SEA, the trip combined education and recreation.

Wildlife biologist Brent Trim served as interpreter. Brent is from Wild Fish Conservancy (formerly Washington Trout) and participated in WFC's comprehensive 2005-07 study on this topic. The study found that salmon from as far away as Hood Canal and the Stillaguamish use our shores during their migration. Also onboard was WWS's new Education/Outreach Coordinator, Kim Bredensteiner, who joined WWS after five years as Island County's Salmon Recovery Coordinator.

The trip was featured in an article in the WWS fall 2008 newsletter.