Family Ecology Cruise Aboard Yankee Clipper, Joppa Flats Education Center, Newburyport, August 22nd & 23rd

August 21, 2009

When: Saturday, August 22nd, from 11:45 am to 2:15 pm; Sunday, August 23rd, from 8:45 am to 10:45 am.
Where: Meet at the Newburyport boardwalk (on the Merrimack River in downtown Newburyport)

On Saturday and Sunday, August 22nd and 23rd, Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats Education Center, Newburyport, is offering a family ecology cruise aboard the Yankee Clipper.

If you’ve ever wanted to see and/or learn more about the ecology of the lower Merrimack River ecosystem, here is your chance!

Lisa Hutchings of Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats Education Center and the crew of Harbor Tour’s Yankee Clipper will host this exploratory cruise of the ecosystem of the lower Merrimack River that runs through Newburyport, Amesbury and Salisbury.

The tour is being offered on Saturday and Sunday:

Saturday: August 22nd, from 11:45 am to 2:15 pm
Sunday: August 23rd, from 8:45 am to 10:45 am

Preregistration is required for this program. To register, please call 978-462-9998.

Where To Meet:

Meet at the Newburyport boardwalk (on the Merrimack River in downtown Newburyport)

Cost:

Adults: $20 for Mass Audubon members; $27 for nonmembers
Children: $16 for Mass Audubon members; $19 for nonmembers

Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats Education Center, located at One Plum Island Turnpike in Newburyport, is a natural history education center that is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday and on Monday holidays, 8:30 to 4:00 pm.