What’s it Like to Be Crude on the Coast? Find out at Bellingrath’s Kids Gulf Discovery Day

Kids will be able to have fun and get their hands dirty learning about the area’s ecology and the impact of the Gulf oil spill.  Local environmental organizations will have activities, demonstrations and displays that will engage kids. They will “soak up” various methods of cleaning up oil and explore how they can help protect our precious waterways.

Participating organizations include:

• Mobile Baykeeper
• Dauphin Island Sea Lab
• Keep Mobile Beautiful
• The Nature Conservancy
• The Fowl River Baykeeper / Fowl River Area Community Association
• Dog River Clear Water Revivial
• Alabama Coastal Foundation
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
• Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources - Marine Police
• Fowl River Volunteer Fire Department - 251.973.2800
• Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

Kids Gulf Discovery Day will replace the previously scheduled Summer Kid’s Kruise.  Bellingrath restructured the annual cruise event because the Southern Belle River Cruiser has been recruited to assist with cleanup activities on Dauphin Island and will not be offering sightseeing cruises through September 2010. 

Kids Gulf Discovery Day is open to all visitors with paid admission.  Garden admission for adults is $11, $6 for children 5 – 12 and free for children 4 and under.  Reservations requested.  Guests may also pre-order box lunches when they register or upon arrival.  There are additional charges to tour the Bellingrath Museum Home.  Call 251.973.2217 X 111 to make a reservation or for more information.

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