Welcome To Bandon Visitors Guide 2010

• Watch For A Blue Jacket

Published: Thursday, May 21st, 2009 Watch For A Blue Jacket Shoreline Education for Awareness Inc. was founded in Bandon in 1990 to support the outdoor education missions of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

SEA operates through the dedication of talented volunteers, also known as docents. SEA docents are trained to help coastal visitors and residents view and learn more about the wildlife that inhabit our shoreline.

SEA has been adopted by the USFWS as "Friends of the Southern Oregon Coastal Refuges." On spring weekends, docents are stationed at Coquille Point from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to provide interpretation of the seabirds and marine mammals of the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge. SEA docents are identifiable by their royal blue jackets with a round SEA logo on the back.

From Memorial Day to Labor Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends, SEA docents are at the Simpson Reef Overlook parking lot, which is located about one mile south of the entrance to Shore Acres State Park on the Cape Arago Highway.

SEA is a co-sponsor of the annual Oregon Shorebird Festival, which is planned for August 28-30 at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston. Field trips to the best birding locations in Bandon are part of the festival. For a full schedule of SEA's summer interpretive program, visit http://www.sea-edu.org.

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