Osprey Nest Discovered

The best part of Oyster Bay is our residents which include our fine-feathered friends who swoop, glide, dive and perch each day, seemingly on cue. Our resident duck family is as dependable as the rise and fall of the tide. Their daily activities signify a sort of familiar comfort and reminder of old -fashioned family [...]

Earth Day Cleanup

St. Dominic’s Youth Group, from Oyster Bay braved the soggy weather to celebrate Earth Day by picking up trash from Beekman Beach.  Donned with ponchos, rain jackets, work gloves and trash bags they worked tediously picking up both small and large items that littered the beach, marsh and parking lot. Some of the items were [...]

Seastars, Seastars!

Nothing matches the energy felt in an elementary school!  The atmosphere has its own personality cocomprised of the many different personalities of its children. Instead of coming with a backpack full of notebooks and papers, I came prepared to school with my cooler full of sea stars. They like cold water, so the cooler is [...]

HSS Boasts Tough Competition

On March 17th, the Cold Spring Harbor Sailing Team kicked off its competition season with a solid showing at the MASSA Northeast League Fleet Race Regatta hosted by The Stony Brook School in Port Jefferson. Unusually warm weather (into the 60′s) made this early season regatta feel more like May than March, and the sailors [...]

Catch of the Week

Every Friday morning, our home-school bunch arrives with a tinge of curiosity as to what the “catch of the week” is. The “catch of the week” is the mystery marine animal they will be studying that day. For us, the educators, this type of natural curiosity and wonderment fuels our passion for teaching. This past [...]

A Love For the Ocean

A Love For the Ocean

The WaterFront Center’s Marine Discovery Programs were recently featured by Verizon FiOS at the 2011 Oyster Festival. Watch the video, our Lead Educator, Carlee Resh, is sure to teach you a thing or two about a few of the organisms calling Long Island Sound their home.

 

Oyster Festival with the WFC

Oyster Festival drew record crowds this year, over 204,000 people stopped by over the weekend making a visit to Oyster Bay and the Western Waterfront! And in the middle of it all was the WFC! Front and center the dedicated staff of the WFC gave people opportunities to learn more about the local marine organisms [...]

High School Sailing District Championships

18 invited schools converged at the Stony Brook School’s sailing facilities in Port Jefferson Harbor, NY on October 22nd and 23rd to race for the Mid-Atlantic Scholastic Sailing Associations’ Fall Fleet Race Championship. The region includes both private and public schools from New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. One of the most [...]

Basic Building Blocks

Ninth and tenth graders from the Portledge School in Locust Valley spent a morning with us at the WFC. They studied plankton, performed water quality tests and learned how these components impact the health of our local marine life. The plankton samples were drawn using a relatively simple constructed piece of equipment called plankton net. [...]

Oyster Babies Visit the WFC

The day began pretending to act like a crab and a seagull as the kids dove into learning about the beach.  The group sat down on our picnic tables outside to enjoy the fresh air and beautiful sunshine.  It was a great day to learn about the beach and to spend some time outdoors.  Shells, [...]