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Welcome the Whales Festival and Parade
April 13 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Please join us for our annual Welcome the Whales Festival and Parade and help us welcome the gray whales to Puget Sound! Each year, a small group of gray whales, affectionately known as The Sounders, detours from their main migration and returns to Puget Sound to feed on ghost shrimp. Some of these amazing animals migrate up to 12,000 miles round trip every year!
Our 2025 Welcome the Whales Festival honors these well-known and beloved whales with costume making, a critter parade, waterside ceremony, Langley beach clean-up, special presentation from Cascadia Research Collective, and a fundraising boat trip.
Schedule:
April 12, 2025 | Festival & Parade
11:00am – 1:00pm | Costume making, face painting and activities at Langley United Methodist Church
2:00pm | Critter Parade through Langley
2:30 – 3:30pm | Waterside Ceremony at Whale Bell/Seawall Park
April 13, 2025 | Presentation & Whale Watch
12:00pm | Presentation at Langley Whale Center with John Calambokidis of Cascadia Research Collective. This presentation will be hybrid in-person and virtual. Please check back for webinar details.
3:00 – 5:00pm | Fundraising boat trip with Puget Sound Express.
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