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Volunteers Charlette Roman, center left, and Linda Shockley, center right, show children critters they collected from the estuary at the touch tank during the 30th Anniversary and National Estuaries Day celebration at Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center. Boat tours, guided walks, kayaking, kids' crafts, films, and presentations were all part of the event to give participants hands on experience at the estuary. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff

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Volunteers Charlette Roman, center left, and Linda Shockley, center right, show children critters they collected from the estuary at the touch tank during the 30th Anniversary and National Estuaries Day celebration at Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center. Boat tours, guided walks, kayaking, kids' crafts, films, and presentations were all part of the event to give participants hands on experience at the estuary. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff

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  • Volunteers Charlette Roman, center left, and Linda Shockley, center right, show children critters they collected from the estuary at the touch tank during the 30th Anniversary and National Estuaries Day celebration at Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center. Boat tours, guided walks, kayaking, kids' crafts, films, and presentations were all part of the event to give participants hands on experience at the estuary. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • during the 30th Anniversary and National Estuaries Day celebration at Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center. Boat tours, guided walks, kayaking, kids' crafts, films, and presentations were all part of the event to give participants hands on experience at the estuary. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Marco Island resident Mickey Poling, 7, looks inside a Lightning Whelk, also known as a sea snail, at a touch tank during the 30th Anniversary and National Estuaries Day celebration at Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center. Boat tours, guided walks, kayaking, kids' crafts, films, and presentations were all part of the event to give participants hands on experience at the estuary. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Kayaks are brought in at the end of the 30th Anniversary and National Estuaries Day celebration at Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center. Boat tours, guided walks, kayaking, kids' crafts, films, and presentations were all part of the event to give participants hands on experience at the estuary. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Jewel Logan, 11, and her sisters look at critters inside the touch tank during the 30th Anniversary and National Estuaries Day celebration at Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center. Boat tours, guided walks, kayaking, kids' crafts, films, and presentations were all part of the event. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
  • Randy McCormick, Rookery Bay education coordinator leads a pontoon boat tour through the waters surrounding the Rookery Bay Research Reserve Saturday. The boat tours were among several activities provided as part of National Estuaries Day and Rookery Bay's 30th Anniversary Celebration. Kelly Farrell/ Staff
  • Betsy Henry, 5 of Cape Coral holds a Horseshoe Crab in the touch tank at Rookery Bay's 30th Anniversary celebration and National Estuary Day event Saturday. Kelly Farrell/ Staff
  • Ashley Suarez, 5 shrieks in delight as her father Carl Suarez, 48 of Naples lets a crab crawl up his arm outside the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center Saturday at Rookery Bay's 30th Birthday party. Kelly Farrell/ Staff
  • Boat tours, guided walks, kayaking, kids' crafts, films, and presentations were all part of the event during the 30th Anniversary and National Estuaries Day celebration at Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center to give participants hands on experience at the estuary. Kelly Farrell/Staff
  • On your marks, get set, walk like a crab. Jacob Walker, 8 of Naples won the walk-like-a-crab contest after a getting a turtle painted on his face at Rookery Bay's 30th Anniversary Celebration and National Estuary Day event at the Environmental Learning Center off SR-951 Saturday.
  • Children dip their hands in the live touch tank while Dave Graff, education specialist at Rookery Bay National Research Reserve informs them of the names of each estuarine creature they set a finger on. The touch tank was one of several hands-on activities at Saturday's 30th Anniversary celebration at Rookery Bay.
  • Jim Pittman, coordinator of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida's pontoon boat, 'Good Fortune,' tours leads discussions of the Rookery Bay area. Visitors to National Estuary Day and the 30th birthday celebration of Rookery Bay got both a history lesson and biology education as they toured mangroves near Henderson Creek Saturday.
  • Rookery Bay's earliest researchers share stories and adventures they experienced along with the growth of the reserve in a classroom at the Environmental Learning Center on Tower Road Saturday. Ed Carlson, superintendent of the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary and Florida Audubon and Gary Lytton, director of Rookery Bay listen and laugh as Bernie Yokel, Rookery Bay's first researcher shares stories of the first lab of the 1970s. The story telling was part of Rookery Bay's 30th anniversary celebration Saturday.

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