Dear Friends,
Race Week, Bike Week & Spring Break…OH MY!!! It certainly has been busy at the seashore early this spring.
I’m happy to announce the auditorium in the Visitor Center is fully open and showing the orientation video to visitors again. And the interactive turtle exhibit is back and swimming! We have had our first Leatherback nest, so it is officially turtle nesting season 2022.
Thanks to the Friends and Volunteers for so much support with Artist-in-Residence, Doris Leeper Women’s History Event, Women in Parks interns, and more. We couldn’t do it without you.
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Stay safe & see you at the beach!
Laura Henning
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The National Park Service and Canaveral National Seashore would like to cordially invite all current volunteers to a special luncheon in their honor.
We look forward to celebrating National Park Week by honoring your dedication, enthusiasm, and commitment. This event will be held in person and outdoors. (Masks are not required.)
RSVP: Email: valerie_stanley@nps.gov / Telephone 386-428-3384, ext. 222 / or in person at the Visitor Center.
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WHERE: Apollo Beach Maintenance Garage
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WHEN: Saturday, April 23 at 11AM-1PM
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WHAT: A catered light lunch will be provided. (This is not a potluck.)
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APRIL ACTIVITIES AT THE SEASHORE |
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Won't you join us for activities at the seashore?
From learning about the endangered Wilson's Plover and our conservation efforts to an Earth Day Shoreline Cleanup, we hope to see you at the beach.
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From March to September, Wilson's Plovers lay their eggs and raise their young on the shoreline of Canaveral. Potential breeding adults select a territory and defend it. They nest on the open sand and if disturbed the birds may abandon nesting. Their eggs and chicks are camouflaged; so they can be easily stepped on. To reduce loss and disturbance, we ask for your support.
- Avoid wrack lines and dune vegetation areas, if birds are near
- If you hear warning calls or see a broken wing display, move away - see video to the left
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CONSERVATION/CONVERSATION
An interactive public project created by Mary Edwards
On display at Canaveral National Seashore Apollo Beach
March 30 – May 2, 2022
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Artist, Mary Edwards asks the community to listen and reflect on their experience of the park:
As a composer and sound artist whose objective is to enhance the listener’s spatial-sensory, historical and ecological awareness, I am excited to have been given this remarkable opportunity, and for my encounters at Canaveral National Seashore and its biodiverse, sonically enriched terrain. Listening to, and describing sounds are an inherent and integral part of my process of understanding co-existences, and how “conservation” and “conversation” are etymological, if not urgently, interchangeable.
During my residency with the ACA Soundscape Field Station, I invite visitors to collaborate and engage in the immersive sound available to them in this distinctive environment. All sounds are habitable and have the potential to be transformative once you get inside them. They can be simultaneously intimate and immense. What are the parallels between a gentle rainstorm and a NASA rocket launch in the distance? A whisper in your ear and the crashing of ocean waves, or the beating of a drum and your own heartbeat when all else appears silent? What do we know what to listen for, and how do we describe these sounds to others? How does the practice of deeper listening raise our awareness of soundscape ecology, our compassion, or stewardship and healing of each other and the wellness of the environment? These are some of the questions I will bring to the community, by way of our dialogue and posted signage located around the park. Afterward, I will synthesize the responses to the questions with sounds and music I compose in response to the area, into text and a recording that will cinematically reflect the themes of temporality, impermanence, nostalgia, and the natural world that recur throughout my work. Moreover, I hope to honor the collective experiences and the importance of listening to this wild coastal expanse with this creative work. (more)
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OUR 1st Leatherback Nest of the Season |
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Woo hoo! Canaveral National Seashore has its first leatherback sea turtle nest of the season! What an early spring season surprise. As the sea turtle nesting season ramps up we will keep a tally of the nest numbers. |
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Sea Turtle Monitoring - Canaveral National Seashore...
Fifteen federally-listed threatened or endangered species, the second largest number in the National Park system, have been found in Canaveral National Seashore. Five of these fourteen species are marine turtles: Loggerhead (Caretta caretta),...
Read more
www.nps.gov
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Tracks to our 1st Leatherback Nest in March, 2022. |
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DID YOU KNOW?
WHY DON'T SNAKES HAVE LEGS?
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From the way they move to the places they can go and some of the methods of subduing prey, like constriction, having legs would simply get in the way. Over millions of years, they gradually lost legs, and they’ve even lost shoulders and hips. Evidence of older species with limbs can be found in the fossil record and in the boas (Boidae), a more primitive family that still has remnants of limbs. |
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BECOME A FRIEND - 2022 Membership |
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Friends of Canaveral consists of a small, but a mighty, group of members and volunteers who participate in the tradition of private philanthropy that is designed to enhance Canaveral’s’ federal support. |
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BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP:
- Membership card to Friends of Canaveral to use to receive a discount of 15% at the Canaveral Seashore Park Gift Shop.
- Subscription to the Friends of Canaveral eNewsletter
- Invitation to all fundraising events
- Invitation to our annual membership meeting
- Inclusion in all email announcements
- Volunteer opportunities
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REPORT VIOLATIONS
If you suspect a fish, wildlife, boating, or environmental law violation, report it to the FWC's Wildlife Alert Reward Program: 888-404-FWCC (3922).
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