Float Your Boat at Coast Day 2005

3:05 p.m., Sept. 8, 2005--Discover the fascinating world of marine science through lectures, research demonstrations, ship tours, touch tanks, children's activities, a nautical crafts show, crab cake cook-off, seafood chowder challenge, delicious seafood and more from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 2, on UD’s Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes.

Coast Day has won state and national awards for helping people learn more about our seas and shores. Each year, this unique event attracts crowds of 10,000 visitors and more with dozens of activities for the whole family:

Tour research ships;
Visit scientists in their labs;
Take in a lecture;
Test your bait at the Great Crab Race;
Savor seafood;
Get up close and personal with a dogfish shark and other marine life;
Make a fish print;
Enter hourly drawings for a Porthole Prize;
Tour the Halophyte Greenhouse and its many marsh plants;
Visit the mysterious world of marine microbes; and
Meet local fish and shellfish.

Admission is free; parking is $2. Free bus transportation will be available for UD students and staff from Newark. To reserve a bus seat, call (302) 831-8083 by Friday, Sept. 30.

For more information, call (302) 831-8083 or e-mail [MarineCom@udel.edu].

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