SEQUIM — The Dungeness River Festival drew children and adults alike to the annual celebration of the river.
The free festival, held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, allowed agencies, nonprofits and resource managers to talk about their efforts.
The annual event introduces children to the ways of maintaining the health of the river, said Powell Jones, executive director of the Dungeness River Audubon Center.
Per tradition, Sequim elementary school third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students visited the festival throughout the day, along with area home-schoolers and Chimacum fourth-graders.
The hours had been changed to focus on families and children and the festival was not over until the last school bus left.
Visitors were urged to draw flags telling how they planned to help the Dungeness. The flags will hang from the Railroad Bridge in coming weeks.
For more information about the Dungeness River Audubon Center and the Railroad Bridge Park, visit dungenessrivercenter.org/ or call 360-681-4076.
Rhys Anglin, left, and Colby Sutton, both fourth-grade students at Sequim’s Greywolf School, look at plankton samples at a display tent set up by the Feiro Marine Life Center during Friday’s Dungeness River Festival at Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Helen Haller third-grade students, from left, Kimira Crear, Piper Jackson, Gavin Rossi and Bronte Taüran examine a display tank simulating how oysters filter water at a table set up by the Washington State Department of Health during Friday’s Dungeness River Festival at Sequim’s Railroad Bridge Park. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Caitlin Gerdes, left, and Thomas Whitteker, both third-grade students at Helen Haller School in Sequim, examine natural objects, including a feather and a bee hive, at an educational display set up by Olympic Nature Experience during Friday’s Dungness River Festival, a celebratrion of conservation and of the outdoors. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
