It kicks off a week of activities to celebration National Wildlife Refuge Week and "Ding" Darling's birthday. 

Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017
FREE FAMILY FUN DAY

A FREE day valued at $75 per family of four

ALL DAY: 10% off select gifts in the Refuge Nature Store

EC= Visitor & Education Center

9:45am FREE Flag-raising ceremony, EC entrance

10am FREE #LearningLav Exhibit toilet paper-cutting, outside EC, followed by  free reusable goody bags giveaway to the first 500 kids, EC Auditorium

10am-1pm 97.7 Latino Hits Van

11am FREE Live Wildlife from Our Backyard Program by CROW, EC parking lot

12noon FREE People & Panthers Program, Florida Wildlife Commission, EC parking lot

12noon FREE This Is the Sea That Feeds Us Story & Fish Craft, EC Auditorium

1:30-3pm Live: The Sanibel School Steel Drumming Band

1pm FREE Kids Animal Yoga Program, by Ambu Yoga & Ranger Toni, EC Auditorium

2pm  FREE Snakes Alive! Program, Calusa Herpetological Society, EC parking lot

 

FREE & continuous throughout the day

• FREE naturalist-narrated 60-minute tram tours (check in at tram booth upon arrival)

• FREE Florida WaterVentures Traveling Lab, parking lot

• FREE archery demos and clinics, adjacent to overflow parking lot

• FREE face painting, EC 

• FREE hot dogs

• FREE parking at Special Events Parking site (look for signs)

• FREE shuttle service

• FREE Butterfly House

• FREE Santiva Chronicle Photo Station, EC

• FREE hands-on nature crafts 

• FREE environmental displays and informational booths with giveaways 

• FREE Special 2016 Federal Duck Stamp Art Exhibit, EC Auditorium