Venues

1. Donna Nook - seals giving birth in natural surroundings and indulging in beach colony life – personal visits NOT recommended due to visitor numbers which last year got up to 3 to 4 thousand a day – VERY difficult to park, next to impossible to get to the fenceline to watch seals –
not recommended as an environment for children

2. The seal sanctuary – will be open all 3 days AND free admission/parking – remote video access to birthing grounds offered in their education suite from2pm to 5pm daily – and tours of all the other exhibits – see seals VERY close up - lots of other birds and animals too – café for meals & drinks – our planet through the ages

3. The Loewen Cinema – remote video access to the seal birthing grounds in luxury cinema surroundings daily from 9am to 1pm

4. The Atrium at Holivans Caravan Park is open to visitors to hear from John Clarkson of the Lincs Bird Club with talks and slides and films

5. Why not visit our new “Bathing Beauties” beach huts – see examples and displays of “What’s in a rock pool anyhow” – “How much life is there in a bucket or two of sand” – “What is seaweed” – “How many different types of shells are there – and from what marine creatures” Talk to wildlife artists who will have exhibitions of their work in the huts – see what coastal erosion REALLY means in “Jabba the hut”

6. See the RNLI tower – Join in with Natural England on a “Beach Fest” – see what you can collect and study from the shoreline – why not see the lifeboats whilst you are there – want to see the night sky in all its glory – skywatch will be operating from here too

7. Queens Park – see flocks of Canada Geese on the lake, – also mallards and other geese and ducks live there – childrens playground - cafe

8. Call in at the Library to get full details of the programme and the weeks events – talk to John Gregory and leave your photography competition entry on the computer for judging at the weekend – top 12 to be featured in a calendar for next year to raise funds for the RSPB – full frontal WI ladies beware !!

9. Walk round to The new Library where experts from ELDC conservation and recycling schemes will show you how to protect and preserve the planet on which we live. Collect your free light bulbs and learn how to cut your household bills AND be kind to the environment